| Title |
Early cessation of breastfeeding amongst women in South Africa: an area needing urgent attention to improve child health
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Pediatrics, July 2012
|
| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2431-12-105 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tanya Doherty, David Sanders, Debra Jackson, Sonja Swanevelder, Carl Lombard, Wanga Zembe, Mickey Chopra, Ameena Goga, Mark Colvin, Lars T Fadnes, Ingunn MS Engebretsen, Eva-Charlotte Ekström, Thorkild Tylleskär, For the PROMISE EBF study group |
| Abstract |
Breastfeeding is a critical component of interventions to reduce child mortality. Exclusive breastfeeding practice is extremely low in South Africa and there has been no improvement in this over the past ten years largely due to fears of HIV transmission. Early cessation of breastfeeding has been found to have negative effects on child morbidity and survival in several studies in Africa. This paper reports on determinants of early breastfeeding cessation among women in South Africa. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 264 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 259 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 57 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 9% |
| Researcher | 22 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 17 | 6% |
| Other | 54 | 20% |
| Unknown | 67 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 78 | 30% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 45 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 29 | 11% |
| Unknown | 73 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 03 August 2012.
All research outputs
#18,312,024
of 22,673,450 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pediatrics
#2,333
of 2,975 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#126,082
of 164,599 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pediatrics
#49
of 59 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,673,450 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 11th percentile – i.e., 11% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,975 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.6. This one is in the 13th percentile – i.e., 13% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 164,599 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 10th percentile – i.e., 10% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 59 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 11th percentile – i.e., 11% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.