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| Title |
Prevalence of psychological distress and associated factors in tuberculosis patients in public primary care clinics in South Africa
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| Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-244x-12-89 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Karl Peltzer, Pamela Naidoo, Gladys Matseke, Julia Louw, Gugu Mchunu, Bomkazi Tutshana |
| Abstract |
Psychological distress has been rarely investigated among tuberculosis patients in low-resource settings despite the fact that mental ill health has far-reaching consequences for the health outcome of tuberculosis (TB) patients. In this study, we assessed the prevalence and predictors of psychological distress as a proxy for common mental disorders among tuberculosis (TB) patients in South Africa, where over 60 % of the TB patients are co-infected with HIV. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 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 Kingdom | 3 | 25% |
| United States | 2 | 17% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 8% |
| Egypt | 1 | 8% |
| Ireland | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 4 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 92% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 425 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 417 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 83 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 50 | 12% |
| Researcher | 47 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 37 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 34 | 8% |
| Other | 69 | 16% |
| Unknown | 105 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 134 | 32% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 54 | 13% |
| Social Sciences | 30 | 7% |
| Psychology | 28 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 11 | 3% |
| Other | 47 | 11% |
| Unknown | 121 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 28 March 2014.
All research outputs
#5,384,215
of 22,671,366 outputs
Outputs from BMC Psychiatry
#1,751
of 4,634 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#37,675
of 164,673 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Psychiatry
#28
of 75 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,671,366 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 76th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,634 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its peers.
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