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| Title |
Maternal bodies and medicines: a commentary on risk and decision-making of pregnant and breastfeeding women and health professionals
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-11-s5-s5 |
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| Authors |
Karalyn McDonald, Lisa H Amir, Mary-Ann Davey |
| Abstract |
The perceived risk/benefit balance of prescribed and over-the-counter (OTC) medicine, as well as complementary therapies, will significantly impact on an individual's decision-making to use medicine. For women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, this weighing of risks and benefits becomes immensely more complex because they are considering the effect on two bodies rather than one. Indeed the balance may lie in opposite directions for the mother and baby/fetus. The aim of this paper is to generate a discussion that focuses on the complexity around risk, responsibility and decision-making of medicine use by pregnant and breastfeeding women. We will also consider the competing discourses that pregnant and breastfeeding women encounter when making decisions about medicine. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 115 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 113 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 22 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 13% |
| Researcher | 7 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 19 | 17% |
| Unknown | 29 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 12% |
| Psychology | 7 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 17 | 15% |
| Unknown | 29 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 09 May 2022.
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#15,739,529
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#11,856
of 17,511 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#161,709
of 246,061 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#148
of 219 outputs
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