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| Title |
Self-medication in university students from the city of Rio Grande, Brazil
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-339 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marília Garcez Corrêa da Silva, Maria Cristina Flores Soares, Ana Luiza Muccillo-Baisch |
| Abstract |
Self-medication is the use of medication without prescription, orientation, or supervision of a physician or dentist. Self-medication might become a serious health problem. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence and factors associated with self-medication among first and last-year students enrolled in healthcare and non-healthcare programs. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 328 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 3 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Jordan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 322 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 86 | 26% |
| Student > Master | 29 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 18 | 5% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 5% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 44 | 13% |
| Unknown | 119 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 92 | 28% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 50 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 28 | 9% |
| Unknown | 124 | 38% |
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 July 2020.
All research outputs
#7,184,819
of 23,923,788 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,463
of 15,554 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#48,929
of 165,722 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#88
of 209 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,923,788 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,554 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 209 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its contemporaries.