A deeper consideration of sex/gender in quantitative health research: A checklist for incorporating multidimensionality, variety, embodiment, and intersectionality throughout the whole research process.
    
    
        
    
    
        
        BMC Med. Res. Methodol. 24:180 (2024)
    
    
    
		
		
			
				BACKGROUND: There is a growing awareness of the need to adequately integrate sex and gender into health-related research. Although it is widely known that the entangled dimensions sex/gender are not comprehensively considered in most studies to date, current publications of conceptual considerations and guidelines often only give recommendations for certain stages of the research process and - to the best of our knowledge - there is a lack of a detailed guidance that accompanies each step of the entire research process. The interdisciplinary project "Integrating gender into environmental health research" (INGER) aimed to fill this gap by developing a comprehensive checklist that encourages sex/gender transformative research at all stages of the research process of quantitative health research. In the long term this contributes to a more sex/gender-equitable research. METHODS: The checklist builds on current guidelines on sex/gender in health-related research. Starting from important key documents, publications from disciplines involved in INGER were collected. Furthermore, we used a snowball method to include further relevant titles. The identification of relevant publications was continued until saturation was reached. 55 relevant publications published between 2000 and 2021 were identified, assessed, summarised and included in the developed checklist. After noticing that most publications did not cover every step of the research process and often considered sex/gender in a binary way, the recommendations were modified and enriched based on the authors' expertise to cover every research step and to add further categories to the binary sex/gender categories. RESULTS: The checklist comprises 67 items in 15 sections for integrating sex/gender in quantitative health-related research and addresses aspects of the whole research process of planning, implementing and analysing quantitative health studies as well as aspects of appropriate language, communication of results to the scientific community and the public, and research team composition. CONCLUSION: The developed comprehensive checklist goes beyond a binary consideration of sex/gender and thus enables sex/gender-transformative research. Although the project INGER focused on environmental health research, no aspects that were specific to this research area were identified in the checklist. The resulting comprehensive checklist can therefore be used in different quantitative health-related research fields.
			
			
				
			
		 
		
			
				
					
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        Checklist ; Embodiment ; Gender ; Guideline ; Intersectional Framework ; Multidimensionality ; Research Process ; Sex ; Sex/gender ; Variety; Gendered Innovations; Sex; Guidelines; Framework; Tool; Challenges; Medicine; Science; Women
    
 
    
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        Institute of Epidemiology (EPI)
    
 
    
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        30202 - Environmental Health
    
 
    
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        Genetics and Epidemiology
    
 
    
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        Universitt Bremen (1013)
    
 
    
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