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Does doing housework keep you healthy? The contribution of domestic physical activity to meeting current recommendations for health

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, October 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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26 news outlets
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2 blogs
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58 X users
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7 Facebook pages
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1 YouTube creator

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Title
Does doing housework keep you healthy? The contribution of domestic physical activity to meeting current recommendations for health
Published in
BMC Public Health, October 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-966
Pubmed ID
Authors

Marie H Murphy, Paul Donnelly, Gavin Breslin, Simon Shibli, Alan M Nevill

Abstract

Recent lifestyle approaches to physical activity have included the promotion of domestic physical activities such as do-it-yourself or home maintenance, gardening and housework. Although it is acknowledged that any activity is better than none, there is a danger that those undertaking domestic 'chores' may assume that this activity is moderate intensity and therefore counts towards this 150 minute per week target The purpose of this paper was to report the contribution domestic physical activity makes to total weekly physical activity and the relationship between domestic physical activity and leanness in the Northern Ireland population.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Unknown 121 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 18%
Student > Master 16 13%
Researcher 13 10%
Other 8 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 28 22%
Unknown 30 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 14%
Social Sciences 13 10%
Psychology 8 6%
Computer Science 7 6%
Other 21 17%
Unknown 33 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 247. 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 13 July 2023.
All research outputs
#149,277
of 25,311,095 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#133
of 16,970 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,018
of 219,790 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#7
of 288 outputs
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