Table 1 Characteristics of selected studies
Author and year | Country(s) | Ethnic/cultural background(s) | Study population | Other conditions/domains studied | Research design | Length of study | Sample size of interest population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blanchard et al., 2005 [19] | USA | Caucasians/Whites, African-Americans/Blacks, Hispanics/Whites, and Hispanics/Blacks | Women | None. | Quantitative study | Missing | 324 |
Brown et al., 2006 [25] | USA | African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans | Women | Heart health, breast health, prostate health, second-hand smoke, asthma, and sexual health. | Cross-sectional quantitative study | 5 days | 221 |
Carrasco-Garrido et al., 2014 [26] | Spain | Spanish | Men and women | Colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer. | Population-based cross-sectional mixed-methods study | 2 months | 4040 (50.9% of 7938) |
Okoro et al., 2018 [27] | USA | Black/African-Americans | Men and women | None. | Cross-sectional mixed methods study | 3 months | 297 |
Owens et al., 2015 [18] | USA | African-Americans | Men and women | None. | Mixed methods study | About 2 months | 38 |
Schulman et al., 2003 [28] | France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the USA | Western Europeans and Americans | Men and women | Breast cancer, lung cancer, bowel cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes | Quantitative study (telephone interview) | 19 days | 700 |
Webb et al., 2006 [29] | USA | Blacks (non-Hispanics) and Hispanics/Latinos | Men and women | None. | Qualitative study (focus group discussion) | Missing | 14 |