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Table 5 Geographical Representation of Included Studies

From: A mixed methods systematic literature review of barriers and facilitators to help-seeking among women with stigmatised pelvic health symptoms

 

Quantitative

Qualitative/Mixed

Countries

No. of women represented

No. of papers

No. of women represented

No. of papers

References

UK + Ireland

593

2

852

8

[27, 39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47]

Norway, Denmark, Belgium, and Portugal

1,940

1

-

-

[48]

Denmark

4,051

1

14

1

[49, 50]

Norway

-

-

15

1

[51]

The Netherlands

822

2

62

4

[12, 52,53,54,55,56]

Spain

-

-

18

1

[57]

Italy

-

-

6

1

[58]

Sweden

561

1

77 + 16 blog posts

5

[59,60,61,62,63,64]

Germany and Denmark

1,849

1

-

-

[65]

Germany

-

-

71

2

[66, 67]

Poland

141

1

16

1

[68, 69]

United Arab Emirates

556

2

-

-

[70, 71]

Saudi Arabia

794

3

-

-

[72,73,74]

Israel

223

1

-

-

[75]

USA

3,877

11

1,055

16

[9, 31, 76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99]

Chile

-

-

10

1

[100]

Hong Kong

639

1

30

1

[101, 102]

Korea

500

1

-

-

[103]

Singapore

95

1

-

-

[104]

Japan

774

1

-

-

[105]

Macau SAR, China

408

1

-

-

[106]

Taiwan

-

-

38

2

[107, 108]

Australia

1,362

2

293

7

[5, 109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116]

New Zealand

-

-

10

1

[117]

Worldwide

-

-

70 + 200 blog posts*

2

[118, 119]

  1. Note: *200 online posts were randomly chosen from 985 posted by 762 unique users on 98 websites [118]