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| Title |
A Comparison of the Wellbeing of Orphans and Abandoned Children Ages 6–12 in Institutional and Community-Based Care Settings in 5 Less Wealthy Nations
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0008169 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kathryn Whetten, Jan Ostermann, Rachel A. Whetten, Brian W. Pence, Karen O'Donnell, Lynne C. Messer, Nathan M. Thielman, The Positive Outcomes for Orphans Research Team |
| Abstract |
Leaders are struggling to care for the estimated 143,000,000 orphans and millions more abandoned children worldwide. Global policy makers are advocating that institution-living orphans and abandoned children (OAC) be moved as quickly as possible to a residential family setting and that institutional care be used as a last resort. This analysis tests the hypothesis that institutional care for OAC aged 6-12 is associated with worse health and wellbeing than community residential care using conservative two-tail tests. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 83% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 209 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Egypt | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 202 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 36 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 35 | 17% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 44 | 21% |
| Unknown | 48 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 45 | 22% |
| Psychology | 44 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 41 | 20% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 2% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 14 | 7% |
| Unknown | 55 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 March 2017.
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#958,792
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#12,738
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#3,685
of 170,194 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#48
of 609 outputs
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