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Table 1 Selection of studies on inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: COVID-19, sex, and gender in China: a scoping review

 

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Publication types

Peer-reviewed, empirical studies

Editorials, commentaries, review, Social media posts, news articles, press release, blogposts, conference proceedings, dissertations), book chapter, blog post

Quality/ Evidence

Publications were categorised into core and non-core journals according to Peking University List of Core Journal 2018 (version 8)

 

Language

English or Simplified Chineseb

Full text not in either English or Chinese

Database/ Search Engine

English literature: Web of Science, Google Scholar

Chinese literature: CKNI, WanFang, Weipu, Google Scholar

site: .gov.cn; site: .org

 

Published date

aDecember 31st 2019 to June 30th 2020

Online first (without full text)

Study Population

Mainland China

Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas Chinese

  1. aFirst case reported to the WHO Country Office in China
  2. bSimplified Chinese is the official written Chinese language. There are two standard character sets of Chinese written language: Simplified and Traditional. Simplified Chinese characters are used in Mainland China, which is the scope of this study