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Record W4407263111 · doi:10.33137/utjph.v6i1.42933

Participation of Racialized Individuals in Healthcare Research: A Scoping Review Protocol

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Nigam Shah, Bilal Noreen Khan, Beverley M. Essue, Lydia-Joi Marshall, Sarah Munce, Harman Singh Sandhu, Andrea C. Tricco

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Toronto Journal of Public Health · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGlobal Health Workforce Issues
Canadian institutionsUniversity Health NetworkToronto Rehabilitation InstituteUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProtocol (science)Health careSociologyPolitical scienceMedicineAlternative medicine

Abstract

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Introduction: Despite a lack of formal requirements for recruiting racialized populations in Canadian healthcare research, incorporating racial diversity is crucial for improving the generalizability and effectiveness of healthcare interventions. By including diverse participants, healthcare solutions can also benefit historically marginalized racial groups, thereby helping to reduce health inequities within Canada’s healthcare system. To better address this gap, this proposed scoping review aims to map all barriers and facilitators to the participation of racialized groups in healthcare research. Objective: The objective of this review is to identify existing literature on the barriers and facilitators to the participation of racialized populations in healthcare research. Methods: Our scoping review will follow guidance from the JBI scoping review methods manual. Five databases will be searched (PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, CINAHL, PsycINFO). Grey literature will be searched using ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Google Scholar, and Canadian Agencies for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)’s Grey Matters online tool. The search duration will include all studies from database inception to February 2024. Data extraction will be conducted by two independent reviewers using a data extraction tool developed a priori and pilot-tested by the reviewers. A data chart- ing table was developed using guidance from the JBI manual. The following data will be extracted from each article: study title, author, country of origin, year of publication, study type, participants (including sample size and racial identity if pro- vided), concept, context, outcome(s), and results pertaining to study objectives. Results will be presented through a narrative summary which will map barriers and facilitators within micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of society.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.219
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.154
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: Protocol
Teacher disagreement score0.781
Threshold uncertainty score0.963

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2190.154
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0050.007
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0130.011
Bibliometrics0.0230.019
Science and technology studies0.0070.008
Scholarly communication0.0100.012
Open science0.0070.008
Research integrity0.0120.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0660.021

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.453
GPT teacher head0.631
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
DomainMethods
GenreProtocol

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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