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| Title |
“We have become doctors for ourselves”: motives for malaria self-care among adults in southeastern Tanzania
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Malaria Journal, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-13-249 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Emmy Metta, Hinke Haisma, Flora Kessy, Inge Hutter, Ajay Bailey |
| Abstract |
Prompt and appropriate treatment of malaria with effective medicines remains necessary if malaria control goals are to be achieved. The theoretical concepts from self-care and the health belief model were used to examine the motivations for malaria self-care among the adult population. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 9 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 | 1 | 11% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 11% |
| Portugal | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |
| South Africa | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 4 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 22% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 127 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 2 | 2% |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 121 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 21 | 17% |
| Researcher | 13 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 9% |
| Lecturer | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 26 | 20% |
| Unknown | 34 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 22% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 7% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 20 | 16% |
| Unknown | 41 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 22 July 2014.
All research outputs
#7,080,827
of 25,622,179 outputs
Outputs from Malaria Journal
#1,764
of 5,952 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#62,918
of 242,602 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#33
of 103 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,622,179 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,952 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 103 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its contemporaries.