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Are the elderly more vulnerable to psychological impact of natural disaster? A population-based survey of adult survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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Title
Are the elderly more vulnerable to psychological impact of natural disaster? A population-based survey of adult survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
Published in
BMC Public Health, March 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-10-172
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Authors

Zhaobao Jia, Wenhua Tian, Weizhi Liu, Yang Cao, Jin Yan, Zhisheng Shun

Abstract

The association between ages and psychological impact of natural disasters has not been well characterized. A population-based study was conducted 15 months after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to assess whether elderly survivors were more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and general psychiatric morbidity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Vietnam 1 <1%
Unknown 245 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 43 17%
Lecturer 26 10%
Researcher 23 9%
Student > Bachelor 18 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 7%
Other 56 22%
Unknown 66 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 49 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 47 19%
Psychology 34 14%
Social Sciences 20 8%
Environmental Science 6 2%
Other 22 9%
Unknown 71 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 17 October 2017.
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#1,016,856
of 22,663,969 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,100
of 14,744 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,250
of 94,905 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#7
of 74 outputs
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