Table 1.

Exclusion criteria for systematic review, including the number of studies not meeting each criterion.

Inclusion Criterion	Number not meeting criterion	Articles Remaining
Published after 1990 in a peer-reviewed journal Article must be published in 1990 or afterwards in a peer-reviewed journal	0	576
Written in English Article must be written in English	15	561
Research Article must be the product of original research, therefore excluding systematic reviews, meta-analyses, expert opinions, journalistic articles, etc.	132	429
US and Territories Population The population must be drawn from the United States or its Territories	81	348
MSM Population at least in part The population must include men who have sex with men, and MSM must be analyzed as separately delineated group within the study	156	192
No one <15 years old No member of the sample may be younger than 15 years old in order to avoid childhood sexual abuse misclassification bias	23	169
Intimate Partner Violence Measured Intimate Partner Violence, broadly defined, must be measured. A variety of terms may be used for IPV, such as domestic violence, violence victimization, partner abuse, etc. are eligible. The violence measured must be relationship violence, to the exclusion of, for example, homophobic attacks.	75	94
Measure IPV apart from Childhood Sexual Abuse The study must not be focused solely on childhood sexual abuse.	56	38
Use of non-specific population The study population must not be a specific population, such as injection drug users, or persons accessing domestic violence assistance resources	4	34
Report IPV as a prevalence and/or correlates of IPV IPV must be reported as a prevalence and/or associations between IPV and unprotected anal intercourse specifically among MSM must be reported.	2	32
Sample size over 50 The sample size of MSM must be over 50 persons regardless of the size of the entire study population	4	28