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Pharmacological interventions for those who have sexually offended or are at risk of offending

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, February 2015
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2 policy sources
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39 X users
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2 Facebook pages
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5 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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68 Dimensions

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829 Mendeley
Title
Pharmacological interventions for those who have sexually offended or are at risk of offending
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, February 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd007989.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Omer Khan, Michael Ferriter, Nick Huband, Melanie J Powney, Jane A Dennis, Conor Duggan

Abstract

Sexual offending is a serious social problem, a public health issue, and a major challenge for social policy. Victim surveys indicate high incidence and prevalence levels and it is accepted that there is a high proportion of hidden sexual victimisation. Surveys report high levels of psychiatric morbidity in survivors of sexual offences.Biological treatments of sex offenders include antilibidinal medication, comprising hormonal drugs that have a testosterone-suppressing effect, and non-hormonal drugs that affect libido through other mechanisms. The three main classes of testosterone-suppressing drugs in current use are progestogens, antiandrogens, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues. Medications that affect libido through other means include antipsychotics and serotonergic antidepressants (SSRIs).

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 827 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 111 13%
Student > Bachelor 97 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 95 11%
Researcher 91 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 59 7%
Other 152 18%
Unknown 224 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 183 22%
Psychology 153 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 83 10%
Social Sciences 53 6%
Unspecified 16 2%
Other 88 11%
Unknown 253 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. 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 17 February 2024.
All research outputs
#1,139,144
of 26,370,058 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2,159
of 13,216 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,453
of 269,562 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#46
of 285 outputs
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