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. 2014 Mar 18;6:ecurrents.dis.835f10778fd80ae031aac12d3b533ca7. [Version 1] doi: 10.1371/currents.dis.835f10778fd80ae031aac12d3b533ca7

Table 1: Study characteristics.

Study Author (Year of study) Country of Study Country of Origin of refugee/displaced Age Range (years) Proportion of Female Participants (%) No. of Females in Sample (N)
McKelvey (1995) Philippines Vietnam 18.0 - 25.0 33.0 34
Swiss (1998) Liberia Liberia Not reported 100.0 205
Petersen (2000) Thailand Burma/Myanmar 11.0 - 70.0 37.0 48
Cardozo (2000) Kosovo Kosovo Not reported 62.3 825
Amowitz (2002) Sierra Leone Sierra Leone 14.0 - 80.0 100.0 991
Kerimova (2003) Azerbaijan Azerbaijan 33.5 * 100.0 457
Hynes (2004) E. Timor E. Timor 18.0 - 49.0 100.0 287
Avdibegović (2006) Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina 43.0 * 100.0 283
Amone-P'Olak (2006) Uganda Uganda 12.0 - 19.0 26.5 78
Hammoury (2007) Lebanon Palestine 28.0 * 100.0 349
Roberts (2008) Uganda Uganda 35.3 * 60.1 727
Johnson (2008) Liberia Liberia 40.2 - 42.4 52.8 880
Usta (2008) Lebanon Lebanon 15.0 - 72.0 100.0 310
Hagan (2009) Chad Sudan 37.1 * 60.0 559
Kinyanda (2010) Uganda Uganda 24.0 * 70.5 573
Vinck (2010) Central African Republic Central African Republic 36.4 * 49.8 936
Johnson (2010) DRC DRC 38.2 - 42.0 59.4 586
Betancourt (2011) Sierra Leon Sierra Leon 16.2 * 28.9 79
Parmar (2012) Eastern Cameroon Central African Republic 35.1 * 100.0 191
* Age range not available. Mean age reported instead