Table 2 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for Selected Articles

• Research articles including primary research.

• Safety apps related to sexualized violence: any unwanted sexual contact that targets sexuality and is physical and/or psychological in nature perpetrated by a stranger or current or former intimate/dating partner

• Qualitative findings (including qualitative components of mixed methods studies).

• Published in English or French.

• Focused on adult women’s (>18 y/o) experiences of sexualized violence focused safety apps.

• All dates and all countries.

• Research articles that did not include primary research.

• Safety apps not related to sexualized violence.

• Quantitative findings.

• Not published in English or French.

• Data that did not focus on adult women’s (<18 y/o) experiences (only men or not able to extract data on women).

• Literature that did not include empirical data (commentaries, editorials, book reviews).

• Literature/systematic reviews.

• Conference proceedings and dissertations.