The Operationalisation of Sex and Gender in Quantitative Health-Related Research: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Current trends in quantitative health research have highlighted the inadequacy of the usual operationalisation of sex and gender, resulting in a growing demand for more nuanced options. This scoping review provides an overview of recent instruments for the operationalisation of sex and gender in health-related research beyond a concept of mutually exclusive binary categories as male or masculine vs. female or feminine. Our search in three databases (Medline, Scopus and Web of Science) returned 9935 matches, of which 170 were included. From these, we identified 77 different instruments. The number and variety of instruments measuring sex and/or gender in quantitative health-related research increased over time. Most of these instruments were developed with a US-American student population.

SUBMITTER: Horstmann S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9224188 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature