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| Title |
Community volunteers can improve breastfeeding among children under six months of age in the Democratic Republic of Congo crisis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
International Breastfeeding Journal, February 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4358-7-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ghislain B Balaluka, Pépin S Nabugobe, Prudence N Mitangala, Nickel B Cobohwa, Carole Schirvel, Michèle W Dramaix, Philippe Donnen |
| Abstract |
Malnutrition is a major public health problem in developing countries and exclusive breastfeeding is an efficient strategy that can be used to prevent malnutrition and reduce child mortality. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of community volunteers in promoting exclusive breastfeeding from birth in an area of endemic malnutrition. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Congo, The Democratic Republic of the | 1 | 20% |
| Brazil | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 2 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 120 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Congo, The Democratic Republic of the | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 115 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 28 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 7% |
| Researcher | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 27 | 23% |
| Unknown | 23 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 45 | 38% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 12 | 10% |
| Unknown | 25 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 26 August 2015.
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#7,937,591
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Outputs from International Breastfeeding Journal
#311
of 608 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,817
of 168,080 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Breastfeeding Journal
#3
of 4 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 608 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.7. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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