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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Traditional values of virginity and sexual behaviour in rural Ethiopian youth: results from a cross-sectional study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, January 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-8-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mitike Molla, Yemane Berhane, Bernt Lindtjørn |
| Abstract |
Delaying sexual initiation has been promoted as one of the methods of decreasing risks of HIV among young people. In traditional countries, such as Ethiopia, retaining virginity until marriage is the norm. However, no one has examined the impact of this traditional norm on sexual behaviour and risk of HIV in marriage. This study examined the effect of virginity norm on having sex before marriage and sexual behaviour after marriage among rural Ethiopian youth. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 162 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 4 | 2% |
| Ethiopia | 2 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 153 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 35 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 14% |
| Researcher | 17 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 34 | 21% |
| Unknown | 34 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 37 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 30 | 19% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 12% |
| Psychology | 11 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 19 | 12% |
| Unknown | 40 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 17 May 2009.
All research outputs
#6,606,739
of 24,995,564 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,943
of 16,658 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,033
of 169,731 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#17
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,995,564 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,658 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 33 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its contemporaries.