The Operationalisation of Sex and Gender in Quantitative Health–Related Research: A Scoping Review
| Autor: | Sophie Horstmann, Corinna Schmechel, Kerstin Palm, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, Gabriele Bolte |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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quantitative health research 300 Sozialwissenschaften Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Gender Identity Healthcare improvement science Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 18] operationalisation Research Design gender ddc:300 sex Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies Humans epidemiology Female ddc:610 scoping review 610 Medizin und Gesundheit Students intersectionality |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 12 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19127493 |
| Popis: | Contains fulltext : 251452.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Current trends in quantitative health research have highlighted the inadequacy of the usual operationalisation of sex and gender, resulting in a growing demand for more nuanced options. This scoping review provides an overview of recent instruments for the operationalisation of sex and gender in health-related research beyond a concept of mutually exclusive binary categories as male or masculine vs. female or feminine. Our search in three databases (Medline, Scopus and Web of Science) returned 9935 matches, of which 170 were included. From these, we identified 77 different instruments. The number and variety of instruments measuring sex and/or gender in quantitative health-related research increased over time. Most of these instruments were developed with a US-American student population. The majority of instruments focused on the assessment of gender based on a binary understanding, while sex or combinations of sex and gender were less frequently measured. Different populations may require the application of different instruments, and various research questions may ask for different dimensions of sex and gender to be studied. Despite the clear interest in the development of novel sex and/or gender instruments, future research needs to focus on new ways of operationalisation that account for their variability and multiple dimensions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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