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Increased cancer awareness among British adolescents after a school-based educational intervention: a controlled before-and-after study with 6-month follow-up

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (77th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

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Title
Increased cancer awareness among British adolescents after a school-based educational intervention: a controlled before-and-after study with 6-month follow-up
Published in
BMC Public Health, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-190
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Authors

Richard G Kyle, Liz Forbat, Petra Rauchhaus, Gill Hubbard

Abstract

There is a lack of evidence around the effectiveness of school-based interventions designed to raise adolescents' cancer awareness. To address this deficit this study assessed the impact of an intervention delivered in the United Kingdom by Teenage Cancer Trust on: recall (open question) and recognition (closed question) of cancer warning signs; knowledge of common childhood, teenage, male and female cancers; awareness of the relationship between cancer and age; anticipated medical help-seeking delay; perceived barriers to seeking medical advice about cancer; and examined variation of intervention effect by gender and whether adolescents reported that they knew someone with cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Ethiopia 1 2%
Ghana 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 59 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Researcher 3 5%
Other 12 19%
Unknown 16 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 19%
Social Sciences 8 13%
Psychology 3 5%
Environmental Science 2 3%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 17 27%
Attention Score in Context

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 21 May 2014.
All research outputs
#5,458,152
of 22,699,621 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,348
of 14,774 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44,666
of 194,612 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#81
of 290 outputs
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