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Self-medication with antibiotics for the treatment of menstrual symptoms in southwest Nigeria: a cross-sectional study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, October 2010
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (79th percentile)

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Title
Self-medication with antibiotics for the treatment of menstrual symptoms in southwest Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
Published in
BMC Public Health, October 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-10-610
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Authors

Amy R Sapkota, Morenike E Coker, Rachel E Rosenberg Goldstein, Nancy L Atkinson, Shauna J Sweet, Priscilla O Sopeju, Modupe T Ojo, Elizabeth Otivhia, Olayemi O Ayepola, Olufunmiso O Olajuyigbe, Laura Shireman, Paul S Pottinger, Kayode K Ojo

Abstract

Self-medication with antibiotics is an important factor contributing to the development of bacterial antibiotic resistance. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics for the treatment of menstrual symptoms among university women in Southwest Nigeria.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 2 <1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 211 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 44 20%
Student > Bachelor 35 16%
Researcher 29 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 10%
Student > Postgraduate 11 5%
Other 28 13%
Unknown 48 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 64 29%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 22 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 4%
Environmental Science 8 4%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 62 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 February 2021.
All research outputs
#3,036,596
of 23,923,788 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#3,502
of 15,554 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,177
of 101,436 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#18
of 83 outputs
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