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| Title |
Social service offices as a point of entry into substance abuse treatment for poor South Africans
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| Published in |
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1747-597x-7-22 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nadine Harker Burnhams, Siphokazi Dada, Bronwyn Myers |
| Abstract |
In South Africa, district social service offices are often the first point of entry into the substance abuse treatment system. Despite this, little is known about the profile of people presenting with substance-related problems at these service points. This has a negative impact on treatment service planning. This paper begins to redress this gap through describing patterns of substance use and service needs among people using general social services in the Western Cape and comparing findings against the profile of persons attending specialist substance abuse treatment facilities in the region. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 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 | 5 | 63% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 52 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 51 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 14 | 27% |
| Researcher | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 12% |
| Unknown | 12 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 12 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 7 | 13% |
| Unknown | 13 | 25% |
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 21 June 2012.
All research outputs
#7,087,933
of 23,342,664 outputs
Outputs from Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
#388
of 682 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,817
of 166,390 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
#8
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,342,664 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 682 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.9. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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