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| Title |
Aromatherapy for dementia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd003150.pub2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lene Thorgrimsen Forrester, Nicola Maayan, Martin Orrell, Aimee E Spector, Louise D Buchan, Karla Soares‐Weiser |
| Abstract |
Complementary therapy has received great interest within the field of dementia treatment and the use of aromatherapy and essential oils is increasing. In a growing population where the majority of patients are treated by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs, the efficacy of treatment is short term and accompanied by negative side effects. Utilisation of complimentary therapies in dementia care settings presents as one of few options that are attractive to practitioners and families as patients often have reduced insight and ability to verbally communicate adverse reactions. Amongst the most distressing features of dementia are the behavioural and psychological symptoms. Addressing this facet has received particular interest in aromatherapy trials, with a shift in focus from reducing cognitive dysfunction to the reduction of behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 28 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 4 | 14% |
| Canada | 3 | 11% |
| Australia | 3 | 11% |
| United States | 3 | 11% |
| Estonia | 1 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 12 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 20 | 71% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 14% |
| Scientists | 4 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 315 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 311 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 46 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 40 | 13% |
| Researcher | 39 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 19 | 6% |
| Other | 62 | 20% |
| Unknown | 73 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 83 | 26% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 49 | 16% |
| Psychology | 31 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 4% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 8 | 3% |
| Other | 48 | 15% |
| Unknown | 83 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 61. 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 05 January 2022.
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#702,090
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#1,309
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#6,433
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#28
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Altmetric has tracked 25,595,500 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13,156 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its peers.
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