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Association of Health Literacy with Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use: A Cross-Sectional Study in Adult Primary Care Patients

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, December 2011
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Title
Association of Health Literacy with Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use: A Cross-Sectional Study in Adult Primary Care Patients
Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, December 2011
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-11-138
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Authors

Sujeev S Bains, Leonard E Egede

Abstract

In the United States, it is estimated that 40% of adults utilize complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. Recently, national surveys report that over 90 million adults have inadequate health literacy. To date, no study has assessed health literacy and its effect on CAM use. The primary objective of this study was to assess the relationship between health literacy and CAM use independent of educational attainment. Second objective was to evaluate the differential effect of health literacy on CAM use by race.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 113 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 12%
Student > Bachelor 13 11%
Researcher 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 8%
Other 25 22%
Unknown 27 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 16%
Psychology 8 7%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 31 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 08 February 2012.
All research outputs
#2,398,838
of 22,660,862 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#435
of 3,616 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,224
of 243,607 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#10
of 32 outputs
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