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Table 2 Detailed strategies by trial stage: Trial Planning (56 articles)

From: Strategies for enhancing the representation of women in clinical trials: an evidence map

Strategies reported during trial planning

# Articles

Partnered engagement during trial design (35 articlesa)

 Community/patient engagement

18

 Clinician engagement

12

 Intentional community relationship building

6

 Budget allocation for partner engagement

76

 CBPR

17

Structural planning (29 articles)

 Plan to monitor retention

15

 Continuous recruitment method refinement

3

 Site selection consideration

12

 Theory-based recruitment planning

11

Eligibility considerations (6 articles)

 Intentional inclusion of reproductive age women

3

 Pragmatic eligibility criteria

3

Otherb (7 articles)

 Co-design of recruitment plan with recruitment staff, cross-site recruitment planning, piloting of recruitment approach, budgeting for trial material translation, and ensuring all participants receive intervention

  1. aEach article may have reported more than one strategy within each subcategory
  2. bEach strategy listed under “other” was mentioned by one study