Table 1

Characteristics of studies included in review

Author	Title	Aim(s)	Setting	N	Participants	Data collection method	Analytical approach
Fang26	Exploring traditional end-of-life beliefs, values, expectations, and practices among Chinese women living in England: Informing culturally safe care	To explore the end-of-life beliefs, values, practices, and expectations of a select group of hard-to-reach Chinese women living in England	England, UK	11	Marginalised Chinese women aged 25–54	Individual in-depth semistructured interviews	Grounded theory
Heidenreich27	The experience of Chinese immigrant women in caring for a terminally ill family member in Australia	To explore the influence of Chinese cultural norms and immigration on the experience of immigrant women of Chinese ancestry caring for a terminally ill family member at home in Sydney; To identify factors that may present access barriers to palliative care support services	Sydney, Australia	5	Asian women carers of Chinese ancestry reside in Sydney, aged 55–65	Semi-structured face-to-face in-depth interviews	Interpretive thematic analysis
Nielsen28	Patient-centred care or cultural competence: Negotiating palliative care at home for Chinese Canadian immigrants	To deepen thinking and understanding of Chinese immigrant experiences of palliative home care	Ontario, Canada	23	11 key informants four first generation Chinese immigrants, aged 50–80 five family care givers three home visiting nurses	Focused ethnographic study; in-depth open-ended individual interviews	Postcolonial theory
Mondia29	The impact of Asian American value systems on palliative care: Illustrative cases from the family-focused grief therapy trial	To examine the challenges and opportunities that arise in family work and examine the cultural underpinnings that impact on outcomes	USA	5	Chinese American family (care recipient, her brother, elder sister, two nieces)	Qualitative analysis of 36 therapy sessions	not stated
Yonashiro-Cho30	Knowledge about and perceptions of advance care planning and communication of Chinese-American older adults	To explore the knowledge, attitudes, and preferences of older Chinese Americans toward advance care planning	USA	34	Chinese-American older adults residing in urban areas	Focus groups	Grounded theory
Chi31	Please ask gently: using culturally targeted communication strategies to initiate end-of-life care discussions with older Chinese Americans	To explore communication strategies for Health care providers (HCPs) to initiate end of life care discussions with older Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area	San Francisco Bay Area, USA	30	14 community-dwelling older Chinese Americans nine adult children 7 HCPs	Qualitative (focused) ethnographic study; Field observations; Individual semistructured interviews	Constant comparative analysis
Duke32	Perspectives of Asians living in Texas on pain management in the last days of life	To determine the attitudes about and preferences for pain management in the last days of life for persons born in Japan, China and Vietnam living in	Texas, USA	18	Chinese residing in Texas, aged 29–82	Descriptive qualitative study; a combination of individual and small focus group interviews	Thematic analysis