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Deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutritional indicators, haemoglobin and school performance

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2012
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1 news outlet
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user
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3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutritional indicators, haemoglobin and school performance
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2012
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd000371.pub5
Pubmed ID
Authors

Taylor-Robinson, David C, Maayan, Nicola, Soares-Weiser, Karla, Donegan, Sarah, Garner, Paul, David C Taylor‐Robinson, Nicola Maayan, Karla Soares‐Weiser, Sarah Donegan, Paul Garner

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends treating all school children at regular intervals with deworming drugs in areas where helminth infection is common. The WHO state this will improve nutritional status, haemoglobin, and cognition and thus will improve health, intellect, and school attendance. Consequently, it is claimed that school performance will improve, child mortality will decline, and economic productivity will increase. Given the important health and societal benefits attributed to this intervention, we sought to determine whether they are based on reliable evidence.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
United States 2 1%
Ghana 2 1%
France 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 135 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 27 18%
Researcher 24 16%
Student > Master 18 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 11%
Other 11 7%
Other 34 23%
Unknown 19 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 47 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 17%
Social Sciences 14 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Other 26 17%
Unknown 26 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 13 March 2023.
All research outputs
#848,146
of 23,506,136 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1,794
of 12,710 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,772
of 180,804 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#37
of 244 outputs
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