评估Covid-19出版物对性别和性别特异性健康内容的评价:一个文献计量分析
Abigail Oyasu1, Aysha Salter-Volz1, Chen Yeh2
1Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
PloS one
|February 19, 2025
概括
只有4%的Covid-19研究强调了性别或性别差异,尽管它们对健康的重要性. 作为第一作者的女性研究更有可能解决这些关键的性别和与性别有关的健康话题.
科学领域:
- 医学研究 医学研究
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 性和性别是人类健康和疾病的关键决定因素.
- 在COVID-19研究中对性别和性别的考虑仍未得到充分审查.
- 这项研究评估了COVID-19出版物中性别/性别特定健康内容的包含.
研究的目的:
- 评估针对性别或性别特定健康的COVID-19文章的比例.
- 调查作者性别与包含性别/性别相关的健康内容之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 从LitCovid数据库中提取了134,008个COVID-19出版物 (2021年6月1日).
- 将PubMed ID与SCOPUS数据库进行匹配,以获取元数据,包括作者信息.
- 在 94,488 篇文章中,对性别/性别特定内容的标题,摘要和关键词进行了选.
主要成果:
- 只有4%的COVID-19文章讨论了性或与性别有关的健康问题.
- 以女性为第一作者的文章更有可能包含性别/性别内容 (4.15%对3.68%).
- 作为第一作者和最后作者都是女性的论文显示,解决性/性别健康问题的几率增加 (1.16).
结论:
- 性别/性别专注的COVID-19研究比例较低令人担忧.
- 整合性别和性别方面的考虑对于促进对疾病的科学理解至关重要.
- 需要进一步的研究来探索性别和性别对疾病过程的影响.
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