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A cross-sectional study describing motivations and barriers to voluntary medical male circumcision in Lesotho

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, October 2014
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Title
A cross-sectional study describing motivations and barriers to voluntary medical male circumcision in Lesotho
Published in
BMC Public Health, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1119
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Authors

Laura Skolnik, Sharon Tsui, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo, Virgile Kikaya, Mainza Lukobo-Durrell

Abstract

In February 2012, the Lesotho Ministry of Health launched a national voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program. To assess the motivations for seeking VMMC, a cross-sectional mixed methods study was conducted among clients aged 18 years and older at four sites.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malawi 1 1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 1%
Unknown 89 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 16%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 4%
Other 17 19%
Unknown 18 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 18%
Social Sciences 14 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Psychology 2 2%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 23 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 17 August 2020.
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#5,786,552
of 23,849,058 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,692
of 15,435 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60,973
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#89
of 260 outputs
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