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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

Negative Impacts of Self-Stigma on the Quality of Life of Patients in Methadone Maintenance Treatment: The Mediated Roles of Psychological Distress and Social Functioning.

Ching-Ming Cheng, Chih-Cheng Chang, Jung-Der Wang, Kun-Chia Chang, Shuo-Yen Ting, Chung-Ying Lin

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
10.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ching-Ming ChengJianan Psychiatric Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare, No. 80, Ln. 870, Zhongshan Rd., Rende Dist., Tainan 71742, Taiwan. babyming@gmail.com.
Chih-Cheng ChangDepartment of Psychiatry, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan 70246, Taiwan. rabiata@gmail.com.
Jung-Der WangDepartments of Internal Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan. jdwang121@gmail.com.
Kun-Chia ChangJianan Psychiatric Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare, No. 80, Ln. 870, Zhongshan Rd., Rende Dist., Tainan 71742, Taiwan. kunchiachang0517@gmail.com.
Shuo-Yen TingChang-Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Puxin Township, Changhua County, Puhsin 51341, Taiwan. kamating@yahoo.com.tw.
Chung-Ying LinDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. cylin36933@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-2129-4242
Ministry of Health and Welfare · TWHong Kong Polytechnic University · HKKing's College London · GBNanhua University · TWNational Cheng Kung University Hospital · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Self ConceptSocial StigmaStress, PsychologicalAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHeroin DependenceHumansMaleMethadoneMiddle AgedOpiate Substitution TreatmentQuality of LifeMethadoneopioidquality of lifeself-stigmastructural equation modeling

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PMID30978986
PMCPMC6480473
OpenAlexW2938556759

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