Table 2:
Characteristics of included studies
| Reference | Year | Location | Pandemic | Racially minoritized group (sub-group where available) | Study participants | Methods | Quality assessmenta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abidin and Zeng, 2020 | 2020 | Global (Online) | COVID-19 | Asian | Facebook users, sample/demographic data unavailable | Qualitative analysis of social media posts | 0.35 |
| Baptist et al., 2020 | 2020 | USA | COVID-19 | African/Hispanic | Adults with asthma (n = 118) (not racially disaggregated) | Survey | 0.95 |
| Cheah et al., 2020 | 2020 | USA | COVID-19 | Asian (Chinese) | Parents (n = 543), their children (n = 230) | Survey | 0.95 |
| Choi et al., 2020 | 2020 | USA | COVID-19 | Asian (Korean) | Adults (n = 790) | Survey | 0.95 |
| Eichelberger, 2007 | 2007 | USA | SARS | Asian (Chinese) | Community members (residents, business owners, employees of China Town) (n = 37) | Semi-structured interviews | 0.85 |
| Iob et al., 2020 | 2020 | UK | COVID-19 | African/Asian | Adults (n = 5259) | Survey | 1.00 |
| Liu et al., 2020 | 2020 | USA | COVID-19 | African/Hispanic/Asian | Black (n = 229), Hispanic (n = 317), Asian (n = 96) | Survey | 1.00 |
| McCauley et al., 2013 | 2013 | USA | H1N1 | African/Hispanic | African (n = 13), Hispanic (n = 13) | Focus groups | 0.90 |
| Pang, 2021 | 2021 | UK | COVID-19 | Asian (Chinese) | Adults, Children (11–15 years), N not stated | Interviews, field notes | 0.80 |
| Person et al., 2004 | 2004 | USA | SARS | Asian | 70 Key informants | Focus groups | 0.75 |
| Rzymski and Nowicki, 2020 | 2020 | Poland | COVID-19 | Asian (Chinese) | Medical students (n = 85) | Survey | 0.79 |
| Schoch-Spana et al., 2010 | 2010 | USA | H1N1 | Hispanic (Mexican) | Key community informants (n = 33) | Interviews | 0.80 |
| Siu, 2015 | 2015 | Hong Kong | Ebola | African | African residents with a chronic illness (n = 30) | Semi-structured interviews | 0.85 |
| Smith-Morris, 2017 | 2017 | USA | Ebola | African, Hispanic (Mexican) | African (n = 10), Mexican (n = 3) | Interviews, ethnography | 0.90 |
| Yang et al., 2020 | 2020 | USA | COVID-19 | Asian | Adults (n = 242) | Survey | 0.86 |
| Zheng et al., 2005 | 2005 | Japan | SARS | Asian (Chinese) | Students (n = 161) | Semi-structured questionnaire | 0.75 |
a
Two independent reviewers used the QualSyst tool (Kmet et al. 2004) for mixed method studies to assess quality