Traditional and complementary medicine use among Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone: a qualitative exploratory study of the perspectives of healthcare workers providing care to Ebola survivors

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, May 2020

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Article details
Title	Traditional and complementary medicine use among Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone: a qualitative exploratory study of the perspectives of healthcare workers providing care to Ebola survivors
Published in	BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, May 2020
DOI	10.1186/s12906-020-02931-6
Pubmed ID	32375765
Authors	Peter Bai James, Jon Wardle, Amie Steel, Jon Adams, Abdulai Jawo Bah, Stephen Sevalie

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	2	67%
Sierra Leone	1	33%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	2	67%
Scientists	1	33%

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 67 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Unknown	67	100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Master	6	9%
Student > Bachelor	5	7%
Researcher	5	7%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer	2	3%
Other	2	3%
Other	10	15%
Unknown	37	55%

Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	7	10%
Nursing and Health Professions	6	9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science	5	7%
Arts and Humanities	2	3%
Social Sciences	2	3%
Other	6	9%
Unknown	39	58%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 12 August 2020.

All research outputs

#16,220,462

of 27,789,879 outputs

Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

#1,596

of 4,058 outputs

Outputs of similar age

#209,148

of 419,435 outputs

Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

#19

of 61 outputs

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