Exploring the extent to which alcohol control interventions targeting affordability, availability and marketing are sex- and gender-responsive

INTRODUCTION: Sex and gender are important determinants of alcohol consumption and its impact on health. Therefore, there is a need to understand if and how alcohol control interventions work differently for people of different sexes and genders. OBJECTIVE: To assess the extent to which research on alcohol control interventions targeting affordability, availability and marketing is sex- and genderresponsive. INCLUSION CRITERIA: With no restriction on the population, study context, intervention outcome and publication year, review-type articles exploring alcohol control interventions targeting affordability, availability and marketing will be included. Only peer-reviewed papers published in the English language will be considered. Review articles with no intervention outcome, primary research articles and non-peer-reviewed publications will be excluded. METHODS: At the time of publication, the review is at the data extraction stage. A systematic search strategy using Ovid MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus and Web of Science was conducted. This was supplemented by forward and backward citation chasing and Google Scholar searches. All retrieved records were uploaded to Covidence, deduplicated and screened for relevance. Title and abstract screening was conducted using a dual screening approach. Full-text screening was undertaken by one researcher, with 40% of the records double-screened. Data extraction is being conducted pro forma using a piloted instrument adapted from the Sex and Gender Appraisal Tool-Systematic Reviews-2 tool. It is anticipated that 10% of the records will be independently checked by another researcher. Data analysis will take the form of narrative interpretation, supported by appropriate descriptive statistics and visualisation tools such as tables and graphs