Table 1.

Design Characteristics of Reviewed Studies

Authors	Aaberg (2016)	Cornelius, Enwaana, Alston, & Baldwin (2017)	Sirota (2013)	Walsh & Hendrickson (2015)
Recruitment, Population, Data Collection Method	Email recruitment Purposive selection of 300 individual faculty identified from the websites of AACN accredited baccalaureate nursing programs with a minimum of 2 faculty invited from each state in the US Internet Survey (SurveyMonkey)	Mailed Survey with one reminder 4-weeks later Deans and directors from nursing education programs listed on the North Carolina Board of Nursing website were invited to participate Paper Survey Instrument	Email recruitment 6,766 individuals invited to participate representing all faculty listed on the websites of CCNE accredited colleges of nursing Internet Survey (SurveyMonkey	Email recruitment 111 individuals listed as contacts for the Texas Board of Nursing approved professional nursing education programs were invited to participate Internet Survey (SurveyMonkey)
Purpose/Aims	To determine how many BSN programs required human sexuality content, the number of hours dedicated, the type of content, and to assess educators’ beliefs about the need for this content.	To identify how LGBT health-related content was integrated into North Carolina schools of nursing curricula and the presence of relevant policies	To describe the attitudes of educators about homosexuality and associated sociodemographic factors .	To identify transgender-related content in nursing curricula
Sample Characteristics	N = 44 individual faculty participated There were no characteristic data reported about either respondents or schools	N=41 Deans and directors of North Carolina nursing programs: Diploma programs n = 2; Associate Degree in Nursing programs n = 27; Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs n = 12	N=1,116 individual faculty	N=21 schools of nursing in Texas responded N = 11 completed the entire survey.