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Patterns of alcohol consumption and risky sexual behavior: a cross-sectional study among Ugandan university students

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, February 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Patterns of alcohol consumption and risky sexual behavior: a cross-sectional study among Ugandan university students
Published in
BMC Public Health, February 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-14-128
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Authors

Vikas Choudhry, Anette Agardh, Martin Stafström, Per-Olof Östergren

Abstract

As reflected in elevated rates of sexually transmitted infections, there is a high prevalence of risky sexual behavior among Ugandan university students. It has been assumed that alcohol contributes to risky sexual behavior. However, perhaps owing to methodological issues, this relationship has found only mixed support in empirical research. The present study analyzes the association between alcohol use and risky sexual behavior at the global, situational, and event level among Uganda university students with sexual experience.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 187 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 19%
Student > Bachelor 19 10%
Researcher 17 9%
Lecturer 14 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 6%
Other 34 18%
Unknown 57 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 41 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 28 15%
Psychology 24 13%
Social Sciences 15 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Other 14 7%
Unknown 61 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 26 January 2021.
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#1,534,298
of 22,743,667 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,676
of 14,819 outputs
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#19,125
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#26
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