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Evaluation of acceptability and use of lockable storage devices for pesticides in Sri Lanka that might assist in prevention of self-poisoning

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, February 2009
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Title
Evaluation of acceptability and use of lockable storage devices for pesticides in Sri Lanka that might assist in prevention of self-poisoning
Published in
BMC Public Health, February 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-9-69
Pubmed ID
Authors

Keith Hawton, Lakshmi Ratnayeke, Sue Simkin, Louise Harriss, Vanda Scott

Abstract

Self-poisoning with pesticides is a major reason for high suicide rates in rural areas of many developing countries. Safer storage of pesticides may be one means of prevention. We have conducted a study to assess the acceptability and use of lockable boxes for storing pesticides in rural Sri Lanka.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 91 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Sri Lanka 1 1%
South Africa 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 87 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 15%
Student > Master 12 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Other 5 5%
Other 24 26%
Unknown 19 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 26%
Psychology 15 16%
Social Sciences 9 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 23 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 November 2019.
All research outputs
#7,182,813
of 22,703,044 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,540
of 14,778 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,229
of 94,027 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#23
of 41 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,703,044 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 14,778 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.9. This one is in the 47th percentile – i.e., 47% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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