Table 3.
Characteristics of the included studies
| Study characteristic | No of studies | |
|---|---|---|
| Study focusa | Description of barriers to health care access | 8 |
| Description of enablers to health care access | 8 | |
| Evaluation of an intervention | 2 | |
| Health care service focus | Maternity and postnatal or just postnatal | 6 |
| Oral health of babies/young children | 3 | |
| Setting | Australia | 6 |
| Canada | 2 | |
| England | 1 | |
| Design | Qualitative | 7 |
| Quasi-experimental | 2 | |
| Target population | Migrants | 3 |
| Refugees | 3 | |
| Mixed | 3 | |
| Target ethnicitya | Afghani | 3 |
| Chinese | 2 | |
| Iraqi | 2 | |
| Lebanese | 2 | |
| Pakistani | 2 | |
| Vietnamese | 1 | |
| African | 1 | |
| Middle Easternb | 1 | |
| Not specified or eligibility not restricted to particular language groups | 2 | |
| Number of participants | < 20 | 1 |
| 21–60 | 4 | |
| 61–100 | 2 | |
| 100+ | 2 | |
| Type of participanta | Migrant/refugee women | 7 |
| Migrant/refugee men | 3 | |
| Health professionals | 2 | |
| Voluntary workers | 1 | |
anot mutually exclusive categories
bIncludes Lebanese participants but they are not the sole focus of the study with Middle Eastern participants, so this study has not been counted separately in the Lebanese category