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| Title |
Drug problems among homeless individuals in Toronto, Canada: prevalence, drugs of choice, and relation to health status
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, February 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-10-94 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michelle N Grinman, Shirley Chiu, Donald A Redelmeier, Wendy Levinson, Alex Kiss, George Tolomiczenko, Laura Cowan, Stephen W Hwang |
| Abstract |
Drug use is believed to be an important factor contributing to the poor health and increased mortality risk that has been widely observed among homeless individuals. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and characteristics of drug use among a representative sample of homeless individuals and to examine the association between drug problems and physical and mental health status. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 3 | 60% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 80% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 130 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 127 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 26 | 20% |
| Researcher | 12 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 17 | 13% |
| Unknown | 32 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 31 | 24% |
| Psychology | 18 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 8% |
| Unknown | 34 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 2023.
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#2,260,064
of 24,987,787 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#2,589
of 16,648 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,214
of 99,301 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#11
of 75 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,987,787 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,648 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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