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| Title |
Substance use and risky sexual behaviours among street connected children and youth in Accra, Ghana
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1747-597x-9-45 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kwaku Oppong Asante, Anna Meyer-Weitz, Inge Petersen |
| Abstract |
Research on street children and youth has shown that this population is at high risk for substance use. Though risky sexual behaviours have been investigated and widely reported among street youth in resource constrained-settings, few studies have explored the relationship between substance use and other risk behaviours. This study was therefore conducted to examine the association between substance use and risky sexual behaviours among homeless youth in Ghana. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 367 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Namibia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 361 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 71 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 41 | 11% |
| Researcher | 31 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 28 | 8% |
| Other | 43 | 12% |
| Unknown | 122 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 68 | 19% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 49 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 47 | 13% |
| Psychology | 36 | 10% |
| Arts and Humanities | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 33 | 9% |
| Unknown | 127 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 03 February 2015.
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#18,395,201
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#610
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#262,123
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#6
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