Figure 2
The flow diagram presents a vertical sequence of study selection steps connected by downward arrows. The first box reads “Records identified from databases (n equals 1,250)” with sources listed as “PubMed (450)”, “Scopus (420)”, “Academic Search Ultimate (280)”, and “Sociological Abstracts (100)”. The next box reads “Duplicates removed (n equals 263)”, followed by “Records after duplicates removed (n equals 987)”. The next step reads “Records screened (n equals 987)”. Below, a box labeled “Records excluded (n equals 842)” lists the reasons “Not focused on Dalit women”, “Urban population focus”, and “No nutrition focus”. The next box reads “Full-text articles assessed for eligibility (n equals 145)”. Below that, a box labeled “Full-text articles excluded (n equals 117)” lists the reasons “No Dalit disaggregation”, “Purely biomedical analysis”, “Not peer-reviewed”, and “Unavailable full text”. The final box at the bottom reads “Studies included in scoping review (n equals 28)”. The flow proceeds in a single downward direction from identification to final inclusion.PRISMA-ScR flow diagram