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Complementary and alternative medicine use among older Australian women - a qualitative analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, April 2012
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Title
Complementary and alternative medicine use among older Australian women - a qualitative analysis
Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, April 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-12-34
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Authors

Deirdre McLaughlin, Chi-Wai Lui, Jon Adams

Abstract

The use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) among older adults is an emerging health issue, however little is known about older people's experiences of using CAM and the cultural, geographical and other determinants of CAM use in this population. This study used qualitative methods to explore older women's views of CAM and reasons for their use of CAM. Participants for the project were drawn from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH) 1921-1926 birth cohort. Women who responded positively to a question about CAM use in Survey 5 (2008) of the ALSWH were invited to participate in the study. A total of 13 rural and 12 urban women aged between 83 and 88 years agreed to be interviewed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 70 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Postgraduate 7 10%
Other 4 6%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 21 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 13%
Social Sciences 8 11%
Computer Science 4 6%
Psychology 3 4%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 23 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 42. 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 12 February 2014.
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#831,494
of 22,664,267 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#128
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#4,299
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#4
of 47 outputs
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