Table 2.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
| Included | Excluded | |
|---|---|---|
| Topic | Safe, legal tattooing program or initiatives in prison | Prevalence studies on tattoo or associated risk factors |
| Types of paper / data | Quantitative health evaluations of tattooing programs, including experimental and non-experimental designs that report outcome data | Descriptive quantitative papers with no specific interventions or outcomes; purely qualitative data |
| Settings | Pre-trial detention settings, prisons (post-trial) | Non-detention settings |
| Types of publications | Papers in peer-reviewed journals, grey literature reporting on project implementation | Letters, editorials, commentaries |
| Language | English, French, Spanish | Papers published in other languages than English, French or Spanish |
| Publication date | Until 27 June 2018 |