Table 2.

Preliminary findings of potentially eligible studies in low- and middle-income countries

Author	Year	Country	Design	Setting/Population	aPublication
Dhaliwal [28]	2010	India	Cross-sectional	Masters	30%
Sipahi [27]	2012	Turkey	Cross-sectional	Masters	12%
Munung [25]	2014	Cameroon	Cross-sectional	Masters & Doctoral	14%
Motamed-Jahromi [29]	2014	Iran	Cross-sectional	Masters	40%
Nour-Eldein [26]	2015	Egypt	Cross-sectional	Masters & Doctoral	22%

^aProportion of theses that were published as full text articles in peer reviewed journals. This is the primary outcome of the systematic review