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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Use of complementary and alternative medicine by cancer patients at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, September 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-7-28 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Emmanuel R Ezeome, Agnes N Anarado |
| Abstract |
The use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by cancer patients is very common and varies between populations. The referenced English literature has no local study from Africa on this subject. This study was conducted to define the prevalence, pattern of use, and factors influencing the use of CAM by cancer patients at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu (UNTH-E), Nigeria |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 204 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 3 | 1% |
| Nigeria | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 195 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 18 | 9% |
| Researcher | 17 | 8% |
| Other | 51 | 25% |
| Unknown | 50 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 71 | 35% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 11 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 29 | 14% |
| Unknown | 56 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 25 March 2016.
All research outputs
#1,996,906
of 22,776,824 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#357
of 3,623 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,234
of 69,938 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,776,824 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,623 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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