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| Title |
Investigating the purpose of an online discussion group for health professionals: a case example from forensic occupational therapy
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-13-253 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Crystal Dieleman, Edward AS Duncan |
| Abstract |
Thousands of health-related online discussion groups are active world-wide however, very little is known about the purpose and usefulness of such groups. In 2003 an online discussion group called 'forensic occupational therapy' was established in the United Kingdom. This group was examined to gain an understanding of the purpose and use of online discussion groups for health professionals who may be practically and geographically isolated from others in similar areas of practice. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 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 Kingdom | 8 | 38% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 10 | 48% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 52% |
| Scientists | 6 | 29% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 108 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 4% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 101 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 8% |
| Researcher | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 16% |
| Unknown | 31 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 20 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 18% |
| Psychology | 10 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 14% |
| Unknown | 31 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 01 September 2023.
All research outputs
#2,415,463
of 24,654,673 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#983
of 8,342 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,135
of 198,979 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#12
of 130 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,654,673 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,342 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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