Table 2.
Distribution of the Participants in the Included Studies by Gender and Race
| Authors (Year) | Participant Characteristics |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Percentage | Race/Ethnicity | Percentage | |
| Fukuoka et al. (2010) | F | 100% | Minority | 59% |
| Rabin et al. (2011) | GP | NR | ||
| Turner et al. (2011) | F | 48% | Non-Hispanic White | 75% |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 19% | |||
| Other | 6% | |||
| Archer et al. (2012) | F | 81.7% | NR | |
| Burke et al. (2012) | F | 84.8% | Non-Hispanic White | 78.1% |
| Allen et al. (2013) | F | 78% | Non-Hispanic Black | 49% |
| Kim et al. (2013) | F | 80.4% | Non-Hispanic Black | |
| King et al. (2013) | F | 73.5% | Non-Hispanic White, | 69% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13% | |||
| Asian | 12% | |||
| Napolitano et al. (2013) | F | 86.5% | Non-Hispanic White | 57.7% |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 30.8% | |||
| Hispanic | 5.8% | |||
| Asian | 1.9% | |||
| Biracial/Multiracial | 1.9% | |||
| Other | 1.9% | |||
| Norman et al. (2013) | F | 80% | Non-Hispanic White | 75% |
| Shapiro et al. (2012) | F | 65% | Non-Hispanic White | 64% |
| Spring et al. (2013) | M | 85.5% | Non-Hispanic White | 75.4% |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 24.6% | |||
| Steinberg et al. (2013) | F | 75% | Non-Hispanic White | 74% |
| Thomas et al. (2013) | F | 95% | Non-Hispanic White | 85% |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 5% | |||
| American Indian | 5% | |||
| Bond et al. (2014) | F | 83.3% | Non-Hispanic White | 66.7% |
| Non-Hispanic Black, | 13.3% | |||
| American Indian, | 3.3% | |||
| Asian | 3.3% | |||
| Other | 13.3% | |||
| Laing et al. (2014) | F | 73% | Hispanic or Latino | 33% |
| Non-Hispanic White | 48% | |||
| Non-Hispanic Black | 19% | |||
| Asian | 8% | |||
| Native American/Pacific Islander | 2% | |||
| Cowdery et al. (2015) | F | 85% | Non-Hispanic White | 85% |
| Gilliland et al. (2015) | F | 66% | NR | |
| Svetkey et al. (2015) | F | 69.6% | Non-Hispanic White | 56.2% |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 36.2% | |||
| Other | 7.7% | |||
| Sze et al. (2015) | F | 90% | Non-Hispanic White | 90% |
| Other | 10% | |||
| Willey et al. (2016) | F | 100% | Non-Hispanic White | |
Abbreviations: F, female; M, male; GP, general population; NR, not reported.
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