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A cross-cultural exploration of abortion fund patients in the USA and the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man

Overview of attention for article published in Culture, Health & Sexuality, August 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 1,310)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
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Title
A cross-cultural exploration of abortion fund patients in the USA and the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man
Published in
Culture, Health & Sexuality, August 2017
DOI 10.1080/13691058.2017.1361550
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gretchen E. Ely, Travis W. Hales, D. Lynn Jackson

Abstract

This paper details results of a study examining administrative case data from 2010-2015 from abortion funds serving the USA and the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. Driven by the available data, the researchers compared organisational characteristics, patient characteristics, procedural costs, patient resources and the ratio between patient resources and procedural costs. Independent t-tests were conducted to assess whether differences in characteristics, costs or resources were significant. The number of patients serviced by abortion funds across the two datasets increased yearly from 2010-2015. While patients in the USA had more resources, on average, to contribute to their abortion procedure, Irish, Northern Irish and Manx patients had the resources to pay for a greater percentage of their costs, on average, which was mainly attributable to the differences in gestational age of those helped by the different abortion funds. Patients across all nations were similar in terms of their marital status, average age and number of existing children. Patients across these countries face expensive procedures and a lack of resources that are bridged in part by abortion fund assistance.

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 21%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 14%
Student > Postgraduate 3 10%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 7 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 24%
Social Sciences 3 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 6 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 339. 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 27 June 2022.
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#97,189
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Culture, Health & Sexuality
#2
of 1,310 outputs
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#2,092
of 309,216 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Culture, Health & Sexuality
#1
of 37 outputs
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