Table 5.

Feminist Appraisal of Studies

	Feminist appraisal
Author and Year	Study Conceptual Underpinnings*	Gendered Context in Discussion	Quality of feminist analysis
Ali et al. (2016)	N/A*	Researchers state gender mixing is not socially prescribed in Pakistani culture hence the reason for holding separate focus groups between boys and girls.	Cursory*
Burchet et al. (2019)	N/A	Previous research has shown that access to expensive communication devices tends to vary along age and gender lines. Older women often relied on their sons or grandsons when it came to the use of communication technologies (24).	Cursory
Carruthers & Pippa (2019)	N/A	N/A	Cursory
Fox & Hiam (2018)	N/A	N/A	Cursory
Grupp et al. (2019)	N/A	Less frequently cultural barriers in accessing healthcare were mentioned predominantly by female participants preferring female doctors and if possible	Cursory
Kiselev et al. (2020)	N/A	Other barriers such as lack of childcare opportunities for women and transport costs were mentioned once each.	Cursory
Knipscheer and Kleber (2001)	Adjusted for age and gender,	Women made relatively more use of the CMHC than men – they reported more MH problems and had greater satisfaction with CMHC services	Cursory
Kohlenberger et al. (2019)	N/A	Unmet health needs and barriers to health access are relevant concerns for recently arrived refugees. Female refugees below 40 years of age report worse health than Austrian women. In	Thorough*
Linney et al. (2020)	N/A	N/A	Cursory
Loewenthal et al. (2012)	N/A	Due to cultural considerations, the four researchers, all of whom were themselves born outside of the UK and, in terms of their languages and cultural backgrounds, members of the respective communities relevant to this study, conducted the focus groups and respondent validation	Moderate*
Markova et al. (2020)	N/A	N/A	Cursory
Mölsä et al. (2019)	Almost 48% of Somali language speakers were female in Finland.	Somali women used less preventive healthcare as compared to other female migrants.	Cursory
Morgan et al. (2017)	N/A	N/A	Cursory
Papadopoulos et al. (2004)	N/A	N/A	Cursory
Pooremamali and Eklund (2017)	N/A	N/A	Cursory
Straiton et al. (2019)	Comparing migrant and descendant women’s use of OPMH services with the majority women using national-level registry data.	Overall, our results suggest that migrant and descendant women use OPMH services to a lesser extent than most women. Descendant women are less likely to use OPMH services, while migrant women are both less likely to use OPMH services and have fewer follow-up consultations for common MH disorders.	Moderate
Tabassum et al. (2009)	A secondary aim of exploring the needs of women, for MH services.	N/A	Moderate
Van Loenen et al. (2018)	N/A	Less frequently cultural barriers in accessing healthcare were mentioned predominantly by female participants preferring female doctors and if possible, from the same geographical/cultural background.	Cursory
Whittaker et al. (2005)	Exploring individual and collective understandings of psychological well-being among young Somali asylum-seeker or refugee women.	The findings of the research highlight the tensions for the women participants when religious interpretations were used to constrain gender roles	Moderate

Conceptual underpinnings* = definitions of gender and epistemologies study authors are influenced by the methodology

N/A* = Not clear or not clearly stated. This has been used throughout this table to signify information lacking enough to be analysed within the scope of this review

Cursory = satisfying one category of the tool

Moderate = satisfying 2–3 categories of the tool

Thorough = Consideration of gender and power as measured against the tool’s framework