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Prevalence and correlates of complementary and alternative medicine use among diabetic patients in Beirut, Lebanon: a cross-sectional study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, June 2014
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Title
Prevalence and correlates of complementary and alternative medicine use among diabetic patients in Beirut, Lebanon: a cross-sectional study
Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, June 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-14-185
Pubmed ID
Authors

Farah Naja, Dana Mousa, Mohamad Alameddine, Hikma Shoaib, Leila Itani, Yara Mourad

Abstract

Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) are increasingly using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies due to difficulty in adhering to the therapeutic regimens and lifestyle changes necessary for disease management. Little is known about the prevalence and mode of CAM use among patients with T2DM in Lebanon. The objective of this manuscript is to assess the prevalence and modes of CAM use among patients with T2DM residing in Beirut, Lebanon.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 163 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Turkey 1 <1%
Unknown 162 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 26 16%
Student > Master 20 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 10%
Researcher 14 9%
Lecturer 12 7%
Other 38 23%
Unknown 37 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 52 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 29 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 4%
Social Sciences 5 3%
Other 15 9%
Unknown 47 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 29 August 2019.
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#7,892,077
of 23,924,386 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#1,281
of 3,739 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#75,446
of 231,806 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#32
of 79 outputs
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