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Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use among hospital outpatients in South Africa: results from a randomized controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, July 2013
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Title
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use among hospital outpatients in South Africa: results from a randomized controlled trial
Published in
BMC Public Health, July 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-644
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Authors

Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer, Linda Skaal, Hendry Van der Heever

Abstract

High prevalence rates of hazardous and harmful alcohol use have been found in a hospital outpatient setting in South Africa. Hospital settings are a particularly valuable point of contact for the delivery of brief interventions because of the large access to patient populations each year. With this in mind, the primary purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to provide screening for alcohol misuse and to test the effectiveness of brief interventions in reducing alcohol intake among hospital outpatients in South Africa.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Belgium 1 1%
Unknown 71 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 16%
Student > Master 11 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 12%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 4%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 23 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 27%
Psychology 13 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 12%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 4%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 23 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 28 July 2013.
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#15,766,200
of 24,036,420 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#11,556
of 15,823 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#119,080
of 198,043 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#185
of 236 outputs
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