Describing adolescents with disabilities’ experiences of COVID-19 and other humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

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Figure 1. Search terms.

Figure 2. Study selection.

Table 1. Included studies.

Study	Disaster type	Literature type	Methodology and data collection	Study population	Location	Findings included
Amnesty International (AI). (2019).	Conflict/displacement	Grey literature	Qualitative – in person	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Yemen	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunityInclusion in emergency response
Bakhshi, P., Babulal, G., & Trani, J.-F. (2018).	Conflict/displacement	Peer reviewed	Quantitative – in person	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Darfur, Sudan	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protection
Bista, S. B., & Sharma, S. (2019).	Natural disaster	Peer reviewed	Qualitative – in person	Adolescents with disabilities	Nepal	Health
Brennan, C. S. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Mixed methods – virtually	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers (focused on people with disabilities generally)	Africa, Asia, Central America, Eastern Europe, European Union, Middle East, North America, Oceania, South America, and the Caribbean (reviewed findings from LMICs)	HealthInclusion in emergency response
Danquah, L., Polack, S., Brus, A., Mactaggart, I., Houdon, C. P., Senia, P., Gallien, P., & Kuper, H. (2015).	Natural disaster	Peer reviewed	Quantitative – in person	Adolescents with disabilities	Haiti	HealthEducationCommunity
Deitch, J., & Gambir, K. (2021).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Qualitative – in person – participatory	Adolescents with disabilities	Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh	Health
Emirie, G., Iyasu, A., Gezahegne, K., Jones, N., Presler-Marshall, E., Workneh, F., & Yadete, W. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Qualitative – phone	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Ethiopia	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunity
HI Nepal. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Mixed methods – phone	Parents, caregivers, support staff and/or teachers	Nepal	Education
Holmes, R., Samuels, F., & Ghimire, A. (2018).	Natural disaster	Grey literature	Mixed methods – in person	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Nepal	HealthLivelihoods and social protection
Holmes, R., Samuels, F., Ghimire, A., & Thewissen, S. (2018).	Natural disaster	Grey literature	Mixed methods – in person	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Nepal	HealthLivelihoods and social protection
Humanity & Inclusion. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Mixed methods – in person	(focused on people with disabilities generally)	Multi-country(Africa, Asia, Middle East)	HealthLivelihoods and social protectionCommunityInclusion in emergency response
Jones, N., Guglielmi, S., Małachowska, A., Hamad, B. A., Hamad, S. A., Hamra, E. A., Alam, F., Alheiwidi, S., Alabbadi, T., Al-Redaisy, N., Amaireh, W., Amdeselassie, T., Banioweda, K., Diab, R., Gebeyehu, Y., Gezahegne, K., Iyasu, A., Qandeel, A., Sultan, M., … Workneh, F. (2021).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Qualitative – phone	Adolescents with disabilities	Multi-country (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan and Palestine)	HealthEducationCommunityInclusion in emergency response
Jones, N., Małachowska, A., Guglielmi, S., Alam, F., Hamad, B. A., Alheiwidi, S., & Yadete, W. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Mixed methods – virtual – participatory	Adolescents with disabilities	Multi-country (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan and Palestine)	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunity
Jones, N., Presler-Marshall, E., & Stavropoulou, M. (2018).	Conflict/displacement	Grey literature	Mixed methods – in person – participatory	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Multi-country (Bangladesh,Ethiopia, Jordan and Palestine.)	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunity
Mbazzi, F. B., Nalugya, R., Kawesa, E., Nimusiima, C., King, R., Hove, G. van, & Seeley, J. (2021).	COVID-19	Peer reviewed	Qualitative – phone	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Uganda	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunityInclusion in emergency response
Mbukwa-Ngwira, J., Johansson, S. T., Singal, N., Umar, E., Lynch, P., & Chatha, G. (2021)	COVID-19	Greyliterature – blog	Quantitative – phone	Parents, caregivers, support staff and/or teachers	Malawi	HealthEducation
McClain-Nhlapo, C., Singh, R. K., Martin, A., Alasuutari, H., Baboo, N., Cameron, S., Hayes, A., Johnstone, C., Maladwala, A., McGeown, J., Richler, D., & Singal, N. (2020).	COVID-19	Peer reviewed	Mixed methods – virtually	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Multi-country (East Asia and Pacific;Europe and Central Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean;Middle East and North Africa; North America; South Asia;Sub-Saharan Africa)	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protection
Orsander, M., Mendoza, P., Burgess, M., & Arlini, S. M. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Mixed methods – in person and virtual	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Multi-country (46 countries in Asia; Eastern and Southern Africa; West and Central Africa; Middle East and Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; North America; Pacific)	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunityInclusion in emergency response
Pearce, E., Paik, K., & Robles, O. J. (2016).	Conflict/displacement	Peer reviewed	Qualitative – in person – participatory	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Multi-country (South Sudan, Ethiopia, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Jordan,Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, and the Northern Caucasus in the Russian Federation)	HealthLivelihoods and social protectionCommunity
Presler-Marshall, E., Jones, N., & Odeh, K. B. (2020).	Conflict/displacement	Peer reviewed	Qualitative – in person – participatory	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Multi-country (Jordan and the State of Palestine)	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunity
Rohwerder, B., Thompson, S., Shaw, J., Wickenden, M., Kayastha, S., Sigdel, A., Akter, F., & Bosri, R. (2021).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Qualitative – virtual	Parents, caregivers, support staff and/or teachers (focused on people with disabilities generally)	Multi-country (Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda)	Health and wellbeingEducationLivelihoods and social protection
Sharpe, D., Rajabi, M., Chileshe, C., Joseph, S. M., Sesay, I., Williams, J., & Sait, S. (2021).	COVID-19	Peer reviewed	Mixed methods – in person	Adolescents with disabilities	Multi-country (Zambiaand Sierra Leone)	HealthEducationCommunity
Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Qualitative – virtually	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers (focused on people with disabilities generally)	Multi-country (Africa; Asia; Europe and North America; Middle East and North Africa; Latin America)	HealthEducationCommunity
Swabhiman. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Mixed methods – in person and virtual	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	India	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionInclusion in emergency response
Tanabe, M., Nagujjah, Y., Rimal, N., Bukania, F., & Krause, S. (2015).	Conflict/displacement	Peer reviewed	Qualitative – in person – participatory	Adolescents with disabilities	Multi – country (Kenya, Nepal, and Uganda)
Tanabe, M., Pearce, E., & Krause, S. K. (2018).	Conflict/displacement	Peer reviewed	Qualitative – in person – participatory	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Multi – country (Kenya, Nepal, and Uganda)	Health
Tchie, A. E., & Tkacova, K. (2018).	Conflict/displacement	Grey literature	Quantitative – in person	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Syria	HealthEducation
Trani, J.-F., Fowler, P., Bakhshi, P., & Kumar, P. (2019).	Conflict/displacement	Peer reviewed	Quantitative – in person	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Afghanistan	Education
UNICEF. (2020).	COVID-19	Grey literature	Mixed methods – virtual	Adolescents with disabilities and their parents/caregivers	Philippines	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunityInclusion in emergency response
Zuurmond, M., Nyapera, V., Mwenda, V., Kisia, J., Rono, H., & Palmer, J. (2016).	Conflict/displacement	Peer reviewed	Qualitative – in person	Parents, caregivers, support staff and/or teachers	Turkana, Kenya	HealthEducationLivelihoods and social protectionCommunityInclusion in emergency response