Table 2 Eligibility criteria
Inclusion | Exclusion | |
|---|---|---|
Participants | Muslim women, regardless of ethnicity, migration status, or country of birth – provided that Muslim is indicated somewhere in the text (e.g. relevant words such as Islam, Muslim, Mosque). | Non-Muslim women or mixed sample where it is not possible to disaggregate the findings according to Muslim/non-Muslim |
Exposure | Maternity services in the UK | |
Outcomes | Women’s experiences, views or accounts of contact with maternity services and healthcare professionals within these services, or of pregnancy / childbearing / motherhood and containing a focus on maternity services | |
Study design | Qualitative research regardless of type (e.g. interpretive descriptive, phenomenology, grounded theory) or mixed-methods research containing qualitative component | Quantitative research or quantitative components of mixed-methods research; surveys that do not provide analysis of open-ended text comments |
Language | Written in English language | |
Publication | Any; including primary studies presented in peer-reviewed journal publications, research reports, doctoral theses | |
Time period | 2001–2019 |