TABLE 1.

Characteristics of included studies sorted per year of publication from oldest to most recent.

Year	Country	Author & title	Aim	Patient group/group/phenomenon of interest	Setting	Design
1997	US	Henderson Intersecting Race and Gender in Feminist Theories of Women's Psychological Development	Critique and develop psychoanalytic theory on women's psychological development and discuss implications for mental health nursing.	Women and race	Mental health nursing	Theoretical
2004	Canada	Guruge & Khanlou Intersectionalities of influence: researching the health of immigrant and refugee women	Theorize and operationalize the concept [intersectionalities of influence] in mental health promotion research with immigrant and refugee women	Women with immigrant/refugee status	Mental health nursing	Theoretical
2009	UK	Jones et al. Caribbean nurses migrating to the UK: a gender‐focused literature review	Explore the significance of gender in the context of the migration of nurses from the Caribbean region to the United Kingdom.	Caribbean Nurses migrating to the United Kingdom	Work environment of nurses	Review
2009	US	Kelly et al. Integrating Intersectionality and Biomedicine in Health Disparities Research	Discuss feminist intersectionality and biomedical approaches, their contributions to research, and integration in the research process	Latino women who experience intimate partner violence	All nursing	Theoretical
2010	Canada	Caxaj & Berman Belonging Among Newcomer Youths Intersecting Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion	Explore newcomer youths' gendered, racialized, and class experiences of inclusion and sense of belonging in their country of resettlement	Newcomer youths	All nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2010	Canada	Van Herk et al. Identity matters: Aboriginal mothers' experiences of accessing health care	Explore the implications of how service providers' perceptions of Aboriginal women's identities influence their experiences of care access	Aboriginal mothers	Community nursing	Empirical – qualitative Secondary analysis
2011	Canada	Benbow et al. Mothers with mental illness experiencing homelessness: a critical analysis	To examine existing oppression and ongoing resistance in the lives of homeless mothers with mental illness and to learn from these women what is conducive to their health.	Mothers with mental illness experiencing homelessness	Mental health nursing	Empirical‐qualitative
2010	Canada	Guruge et al. Intimate male partner violence in the migration process: intersections of gender, race and class	Report Sri Lankan Tamil Canadian immigrants' perspectives on factors that contribute to IMPV in the postmigration context.	Intimate male partner violence among immigrants	All nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2011	US	Rogers & Kelly Feminist intersectionality: Bringing social justice to health disparities research	Provide an ethical approach to health disparities research that simultaneously describes and seeks to eliminate health disparities.	Health disparities research	All nursing	Theoretical
2011	US	Kelly Theories of Intimate Partner Violence: From Blaming the Victim to Acting Against Injustice Intersectionality as an Analytic Framework	Describe and expose the complexity of life experiences within intersecting oppressions in the context of intimate partner violence	Women who experience intimate partner violence	All nursing	Theoretical
2011	US	Shade et al. A Conceptual Model of Incarcerated Adolescent Fatherhood: Adolescent Identity Development and the Concept of Intersectionality	Present a model to guide research on adolescent fatherhood, in the context of incarceration, and suggest clinical intervention to improve outcomes for the young father and his child	Adolescent, incarcerated fathers and their children	Mental health nursing	Theoretical
2011	Canada	Van Herk et al. Examining our privileges and oppressions: incorporating an intersectionality paradigm into nursing	Discuss the hegemony of the white, middle‐class perspective in nursing	Oppression and privilege within the nursing profession and practice	All nursing	Empirical ‐– qualitative
2012	Canada	Guruge Intimate Partner Violence: A Global Health Perspective	Summarize literature on health consequences, costs, prevalence, risk factors, perceptions, and manifestations of intimate partner violence, and women's responses to it	Women who experience intimate partner violence	All nursing	Review
2012	Sweden	Saarnio et al. Power relations in patients experiences of suffering during treatment for cancer	Examine how patients who have cancer experience suffering in the context of power relations	Patients undergoing cancer treatment	Oncology nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2013	Canada	Chulach & Gagnon Rethinking the experience of HIV‐positive refugee women in the context of pregnancy: using an intersectional approach in nursing	Briefly overview the origins and evolution of intersectionality, describe levels of analysis and usefulness for nursing	Pregnant refugee women living with HIV	All nursing	Theoretical
2013	Canada	McCall & Lauridsen‐Hoegh Trauma and cultural safety: providing quality care to HIV‐infected women of aboriginal descent	Describe the case of a 52‐year‐old, HIV‐infected Aboriginal woman in relation to colonization, intersectionality, post‐traumatic stress disorder, depression, revictimization, and substance use	Women of aboriginal descent living with HIV	All nursing	Case report
2013	Canada	Giesbrecht et al. Identifying socio‐environmental factors that facilitate resilience among Canadian palliative family caregivers: A qualitative case study	Identify socio‐environmental factors that contribute to palliative family caregiver resilience in the Canadian homecare context	Palliative family caregivers	Home care nursing	Empirical – qualitative Secondary analysis
2013	US	Green Application of the Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory: The Community Context	Establish the usefulness of Orem's Self‐Care Deficit Nursing Theory in application to disabled children in the school setting and link it to social determinants of health and intersectionality	Schoolchildren with disabilities	School nursing	Theoretical
2014	Canada	Choby & Clark Improving health: structure and agency in health interventions	Critique liberal individualist assumptions of health and propose steps for critical realist intersectional interventions research	Structure and agency in health interventions	All nursing	Theoretical
2014	US	Caiola et al Using an Intersectional Approach To Study the Impact of Social Determinants of Health for African American Mothers Living with HIV	Broaden the discussion about conceptual approaches which can be used to address health and health inequities in nursing	African American mothers living with HIV	All nursing	Theoretical
2014	Sweden	Holmgren et al. Intersectional perspectives on family involvement in nursing home care: rethinking relatives' position as a betweenship	To understand, in the context of intersectional theory, the roles of family members in nursing home care	Relatives' involvement in nursing homes	Nursing homes	Empirical – qualitative
2014	Canada	Reimer‐Kirkham Nursing Research on Religion and Spirituality Through a Social Justice Lens	Critically analyse nursing discourses on religion and spirituality	Religion and spirituality in nursing	All nursing	Theoretical
2016	Sweden	Cuesta & Rämgård Intersectional perspective in elderly care	Contribute to staff well‐being in elderly care by asking in what way an intersectional perspective can contribute to increased knowledge of power structures	Employees at a nursing home with immigrant status	Work environment of nurses	Empirical – qualitative
2016	US	Hall & Carlson Marginalization A Revisitation With Integration of Scholarship on Globalization, Intersectionality, Privilege, Microaggressions, and Implicit Biases	Examine and discuss recent scholarship on marginalization and building the knowledge base in nursing while respecting diversity.	All marginalized groups/marginalization	All nursing	Theoretical
2016	Sweden	Höglund et al. Impact of telephone nursing education program for equity in healthcare	Investigate if and how an educational intervention can improve awareness of equity in healthcare among telephone nurses	Telephone nurses and education	Nursing education	Quasi‐experimental
2017	Canada	Blanchet Garneau et al Drawing on antiracist approaches toward a critical antidiscriminatory pedagogy for nursing	Propose a critical antidiscriminatory pedagogy and thus translate social justice into nursing practice and education	Social justice and nursing	Nursing education	Theoretical
2017	Sweden	Holmström et al. Nursing students' awareness of inequity in healthcare — An intersectional perspective	Explore awareness of inequity in healthcare and the intersection between different structures of power among nursing students	Nursing students	Nursing education	Empirical – quantitative descriptive
2017	Canada	Kellett & Fitton Supporting transvisibility and gender diversity in nursing practice and education: embracing cultural safety	Raise awareness about the problems inherent to transinvisibility and propose interventions to increase the recognition of gender diversity in nursing education and practice	Transvisibility and trans gender clients	Nursing education and working conditions of nurses	Theoretical
2018	US	Damaskos et al. Intersectionality and the LGBT patient with cancer	Discuss cancer risk factors, health care access and treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients	LGBT patients with cancer	Oncology nursing	Review
2018	Canada	Elliott et al. A focused ethnography of nursing team culture and leadership on a transitonal care unit	Explore how a new staffing model impact the team dynamics within the socio‐political and sociocultural context of a transitional care unit	Nurses working environment and teamwork	Transitional care nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2018	US	Wesp et al. An Emancipatory Approach to Cultural Competency: The Application of Critical Race, Postcolonial, and Intersectionality Theories	Critique Guidelines regarding Culturally Competent Care	Marginalized groups and nurses cultural competency	All nursing	Theoretical
2019	New Zealand	Aspinall et al. Intersectionality and Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Advancing Nursing Leadership	To develop an approach that addresses how the multiple social positions nurses hold an impact on their opportunities to develop as leaders	Nurses as leaders	Work environment of nurses	Theoretical
2019	Canada	Campbell et al. Nurse‐family partnership and geography: an intersectional perspective	Explore the influence of geography on the delivery of the public health program Nurse‐Family Partnership.	Nurse‐family partnership, maternal/child health and geography	Community nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2019	Canada	Clark et al. Applying Critical Race Feminism and Intersectionality to Narrative Inquiry. A Point of Resistance for Muslim Nurses Donning a Hijab	Explore racism within nursing and build a case for examining the experiences of Muslim nurses donning a hijab	Female Muslim nurses donning a hijab	Work environment of nurses	Theoretical
2019	US	DeWilde et al. Structural Stress and Otherness: How Do They Influence Psychological Stress?	Explore the impact of structural stressors and otherness on psychological stress. Determine if the cultural distress model aligns with definitions of culture among the participants.	Cultural distress and psychological stress	Hospital outpatient nursing	Empirical ‐ quantitative
2019	US	Engelman et al. State of the Profession The Landscape of Disability Justice, Health Inequities, and Access for Patients With Disabilities	Provide an overview of disparities faced by people with disabilities and recommendations for nursing curriculum and practice	People with disabilities	All nursing Nursing education	Theoretical
2019	US	Fitzgerald & Campinha‐Bacote An Intersectionality Approach to the Process of Cultural Competemility – Part II	By using an intersectionality approach, offer strategies that nurses and other healthcare professionals can use to challenge and address inequalities.	Nursing practice, organization and cultural humility	All nursing	Theoretical
2019	Canada	Henriquez, et al. It's Complicated: Improving Undergraduate Nursing Students' Understanding Family and Care of LGBTQ Older Adults.	Articulate a teaching approach and methodology of an unfolding LGBTQ family case study for undergraduate nursing students.	Undergraduate Nursing Students and LGBTQ Older Adults	Nursing education	Quasi‐experimental
2019	Canada	Reimer Kirkham Complicating nursing's views on religion and politics in healthcare.	Complicate nursing's views on religion and politics in healthcare	Nursing's views on religion and politics	All nursing	Theoretical
2019	Canada	Straus & Brown The potential contribution of critical theories in healthcare transition research and practice	The aim is to examine the potential contributions of intersectionality and critical discourse analysis to healthcare transition research and practice	Youth transitioning from childhood to adulthood and paediatric to adult health care	Transition from paediatric to adult care	Theoretical
2019	Canada	Thandi & Browne The social context of substance use among older adults: Implications for nursing practice.	To critically analyse the social context of substance use among older adults and to offer strategies to support the health of older adults experiencing problematic substance use.	Older adults with problematic substance use	All nursing	Theoretical
2019	US	Wardlaw & Shambley‐Ebron Co‐cultural Communicative Practices of African American Women Seeking Depression Care.	Explore the co‐cultural communicative practices that African American women use when seeking depression care	African‐ American women with depression	Mental health nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2020	US	Armour‐Burton & Etland Black Feminist Thought: A Paradigm to Examine Breast Cancer Disparities.	Examine how the intersection of race, gender, and class influences mental and physiological well‐being among African American Women with breast cancer	African American Women with cancer	Community nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2020	US	Griswold & Pagano‐Therrien Women Living With HIV in High Income Countries and the Deeper Meaning of Breastfeeding Avoidance: A Metasynthesis.	Describe social and emotional experiences of infant feeding for women living with HIV in high‐income countries and raise ethical considerations surrounding the clinical recommendation to avoid breastfeeding.	Breastfeeding women living with HIV in high‐income countries	All nursing	Review
2020	Australia	Ogrin et al. The inter‐relationship of diversity principles for the enhanced participation of older people in their care: a qualitative study.	Explore how five diversity principles are considered by older people	Older people	Home care nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2020	UK	Qureshi et al. British South Asian male nurses' views on the barriers and enablers to entering and progressing in nursing careers.	Ascertain British South Asian male nurses' views on the barriers and enablers to entering and progressing in nursing education and careers.	British South Asian male nurses	Work environment of nurses	Empirical – qualitative
2020	New Zealand	Aspinall et al. The impact of intersectionality on nursing leadership, empowerment and culture: A case study exploring nurses and managers' perceptions in an acute care hospital in Aotearoa, New Zealand.	Exploring intersectionality and nursing leadership in the context of the social environment	Nurses and managers in an acute care hospital	Work environment of nurses	Empirical – qualitative
2020	US	Weitzel et al. The Role of Nurses as Allies Against Racism and Discrimination: An Analysis of Key Resistance Movements of Our Time.	Offer nurses new epistemologies informed by intersectionality, critical race theory, and historical trauma to use in practice	Nurses' role in relation to marginalized populations	All nursing	Theoretical
2021	US	Burger et al. Reproductive justice and black lives: A concept analysis for public health nursing	To analyse the concept of reproductive justice as used in peer‐reviewed publications with the aim of reframing black maternal health in public health nursing	Black maternal health	Public health nursing	Review
2021	US	Crooks et al. Black Female Sexuality: Intersectional Identities and Historical Contexts	Explain how a secondary analysis of a study about Black female sexual behaviour supports intersectionality theory, describe an expanded model of intersectionality theory and discuss implications for nursing	Sexual health of Black women	All nursing	Empirical – qualitative secondary analysis
2021	US	Ramos et al. Intersectional Effects of Sexual Orientation Concealment, Internalized Homophobia, and Gender Expression on Sexual Identity and HIV Risk Among Sexual Minority Men of Colour: A Path Analysis.	Examine how intersecting identities, in aggregate, contribute to HIV risk in sexual minority men	Minority men and HIV risk and gender expression	All nursing	Empirical – quantitative
2021	US	Webster et al. The Concept of Vulnerability Among Black and Latina Transgender Women in the United States.	Review the current body of knowledge on vulnerability among Black and Latina transgender women	Black and Latina transgender women	All nursing	Review
2021	US	Ruiz et al. A Historical Analysis of the Impact of Hegemonic Masculinities on Sexual Assault in the Lives of Ethnic Minority Women: Informing Nursing Interventions and Health Policy	Deepen the understanding of how hegemonic masculinity shapes minority women's experiences of sexual assault	Minority women's experiences of sexual assault	All nursing	Review
2021	US	Ruiz et al. An integrative literature review and critical reflection of intersectionality theory	Critically reflect on intersectionality by considering the semantic and structural consistency, generalizability, simplicity and complexity, and the utility and value to nursing science and practice	Utility of intersectionality theory in nursing	All nursing	Review
2022	Canada	Al‐Hamad et al. The Potential of Merging Intersectionality and Critical Ethnography for Advancing Refugee Women's Health Research	Outline the potential of using the blended theoretical approach in advancing refugee women's health research and to inform a particular methodological approach for nursing research and health care practice	Refugee women	All nursing	Theoretical
2022	US	Bergman et al. Reframing Intersectional Stigma for a South African Context Integrating Tuberculosis, HIV and Poverty Stigma	Reframe intersectionality by considering a new set of stigmatized identities and create a situation‐specific framework	Intersectional stigma in South Africa	All nursing	Theoretical
2022	Brasil	Souza & Tanaka Healthcare: Action research with trans people living on the streets.	To analyse the representations of healthcare provided to trans people living on the streets.	Trans people living on the streets	Community nursing	Empirical – qualitative
2022	US	Schmitt et al. Adverse childhood experiences among previously homeless African American women.	The aim was to examine the role adverse childhood experiences played in life course trajectories of previously homeless African American women.	African American women who have previously been homeless	All nursing	Empirical‐ qualitative
2022	US	Schoon & Krumwiede A holistic health determinants model for public health nursing education and practice.	Propose a model for population health assessment	Health determinants	Nursing education	Theoretical
2022	UK	Qureshi et al. Understanding the disproportionate effects of COVID‐19 on nurses from ethnic minority backgrounds	Define intersectionality and outline intersecting factors contributing to disproportionate effects of COVID‐19 on nurses from ethnic minority backgrounds	Nurses from ethnic minority backgrounds	Work environment of nurses	Theoretical