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| Title |
Public awareness and attitudes toward palliative care in Northern Ireland
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Palliative Care, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-684x-12-34 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sonja McIlfatrick, Felicity Hasson, Dorry McLaughlin, Gail Johnston, Audrey Roulston, Lesley Rutherford, Helen Noble, Sheila Kelly, Avril Craig, W George Kernohan |
| Abstract |
The World Health Organisation recognises palliative care as a global public health issue and this is reflected at strategic level. Despite this, palliative care may not be universally welcomed. Surveys over the last decade have suggested that the general public have a lack of knowledge and negative perceptions towards palliative care. A detailed and comprehensive understanding of public views is needed in order to target education and policy campaigns and to manage future needs, expectations and resourcing of end of life care. The aim of this study was to establish the current levels of awareness and attitudes towards palliative care among the general public in Northern Ireland. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 124 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 121 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 15% |
| Researcher | 17 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 10% |
| Other | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 18 | 15% |
| Unknown | 40 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 23% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 25 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 10% |
| Psychology | 8 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 5% |
| Unknown | 42 | 34% |
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 06 January 2014.
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#13,896,815
of 22,721,584 outputs
Outputs from BMC Palliative Care
#971
of 1,244 outputs
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#110,295
of 201,942 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Palliative Care
#7
of 11 outputs
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