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| Title |
Herbal remedy clinical trials in the media: a comparison with the coverage of conventional pharmaceuticals
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, November 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-6-35 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tania Bubela, Heather Boon, Timothy Caulfield |
| Abstract |
This study systematically compares newspaper coverage of clinical trials for herbal remedies, a popular type of complementary and alternative medicine, with clinical trials for pharmaceuticals using a comparative content analysis. This is a timely inquiry given the recognized importance of the popular press as a source of health information, the complex and significant role of complementary and alternative medicine in individual health-care decisions, and the trend toward evidence-based research for some complementary and alternative medical therapies. We searched PubMed for clinical trials, Lexis/Nexis for newspaper articles in the UK, US, Australia/New Zealand, and Factiva for Canadian newspaper articles from 1995 to 2005. We used a coding frame to analyze and compare 48 pharmaceutical and 57 herbal remedy clinical trials as well as 201 pharmaceutical and 352 herbal remedy newspaper articles. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 65 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 15% |
| Researcher | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 19% |
| Unknown | 11 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 31% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 9% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 9% |
| Psychology | 4 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 19% |
| Unknown | 13 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 15 August 2020.
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#1,401,971
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#983
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#5,558
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