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| Title |
Challenges to conducting research with older people living in nursing homes
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Geriatrics, August 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2318-9-38 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sue Hall, Susan Longhurst, Irene J Higginson |
| Abstract |
Although older people are increasingly cared for in nursing homes towards the end of life, there is a dearth of research exploring the views of residents. There are however, a number of challenges and methodological issues involved in doing this. The aim of this paper is to discuss some of these, along with residents' views on taking part in a study of the perceptions of dignity of older people in care homes and make recommendations for future research in these settings. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 160 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 159 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 13% |
| Researcher | 19 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 10% |
| Other | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 26 | 16% |
| Unknown | 40 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 34 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 21 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 21 | 13% |
| Psychology | 15 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 19 | 12% |
| Unknown | 42 | 26% |
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 11 July 2010.
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#4,677,977
of 22,709,015 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#1,206
of 3,144 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,351
of 95,204 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#5
of 10 outputs
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