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| Title |
‘Change means sacrificing a good life’: perceptions about severity of type 2 diabetes and preventive lifestyles among people afflicted or at high risk of type 2 diabetes in Iganga Uganda
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-864 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Roy W Mayega, Samuel Etajak, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Goran Tomson, Juliet Kiguli |
| Abstract |
Interventions for prevention of type 2 diabetes ought to be acceptable to target communities. We assessed perceptions about type 2 diabetes and lifestyle change among people afflicted or at high risk of this disease in a low income setting in Iganga Uganda. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 3 | 43% |
| France | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| Mexico | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 1 | 14% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 173 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 173 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 27 | 16% |
| Researcher | 23 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 30 | 17% |
| Unknown | 45 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 21 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 11% |
| Psychology | 13 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 22 | 13% |
| Unknown | 57 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 12 September 2018.
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#4,481,162
of 22,760,687 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#4,929
of 14,834 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#45,639
of 235,897 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#90
of 282 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,760,687 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 14,834 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 282 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its contemporaries.