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| Title |
Prevalence and factors associated with the use of alternative (folk) medicine practitioners in 8 countries of the former Soviet Union
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| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, April 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-13-83 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Andrew Stickley, Ai Koyanagi, Erica Richardson, Bayard Roberts, Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee |
| Abstract |
Research suggests that since the collapse of the Soviet Union there has been a sharp growth in the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in some former Soviet countries. However, as yet, comparatively little is known about the use of CAM in the countries throughout this region. Against this background, the aim of the current study was to determine the prevalence of using alternative (folk) medicine practitioners in eight countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU) and to examine factors associated with their use. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 55% |
| Australia | 3 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 1 | 9% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 73% |
| Scientists | 1 | 9% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 55 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 54 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 15 | 27% |
| Unknown | 9 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 31% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 9% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 3 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 15% |
| Unknown | 12 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 20 August 2019.
All research outputs
#3,103,529
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#580
of 3,735 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,240
of 201,723 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#13
of 58 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,881,329 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,735 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 58 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its contemporaries.