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The purpose of this study was to explore and develop understanding of nurses and midwives’ perceptions and attitudes towards the implementation of CPD, aiming to provide them with a platform to make recommendations to ...
South Africa is facing an ongoing public health crisis with increasing and alarming
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) statistics. Farmworkers in South Africa are highly
vulnerable and susceptible to HIV. This study ...
The purpose of the study was to describe the perceptions and attitudes of student nurses towards anatomy and physiology. The study was conducted in the nursing education setting at three campuses of one college of nursing ...
Given the general poor state of health care and the devastating effect of user fee, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was instituted as a health financing policy with the main purpose to ensure universal access ...
Psychologists-in-training are often presented with textbook definitions and descriptions of individuals presenting with psychopathologies. A major challenge for such texts is to effectively convey the relational issues and ...
The experience of complex childhood trauma produces a ripple-effect that psychologically impacts trauma survivors’ functioning in multiple areas. The aim of the current study was to investigate and describe the interplay ...
Mthembu, Ntokozo(OPEN JOURNAL FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (OJER), 2019-10-03)
The post-apartheid era in South Africa was intended to be a period in which to redress past injustices in
almost all social spheres, including education, particularly in terms of curriculum transformation to include
Af ...
Teenage pregnancy is a growing social concern in Namibia. In 2013, 19% of teenagers fell pregnant (MoHSS, 2014). Implications are enormous including economic, social and health issues. Attachment between parents and children ...
This dissertation was carried out to try to describe the role of socio-economic factors in the successful completion of schooling up to matriculation level (matric), among young mothers in the Soutpansberg East Circuit in ...
The aim of the research was to describe how Generation Y medical doctors working in the South African public health sector at a hospital in the Limpopo Province experienced a coaching intervention for burnout. Generally, ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of high neonatal mortality rates in Migori County, Kenya. The neonatal mortality cases were utilised as the target population to the study.
A quantitative, ...
PURPOSE: The main aim of this study was to develop guidelines for prevention of hypertension among adults in Hawassa City, Ethiopia.
METHOD: The study used mixed methods approach. In Phase 1, a quantitative community-based ...
Improving the quality of newborn care services and accelerating the service utilization of sick young infants is required to contribute to the reduction of neonatal mortality and improve the wellbeing of the newborns.
The ...
This parallel randomized control trial study assessed the effect of food-based strategies in improving the haemoglobin level; decreasing anaemia and thus the iron status of pregnant women. The study randomized 195 anaemic ...
This research examines the applicability of the Kindernothilfe self-help group
approach among the Ngäbe indigenous people in Panama from the
perspectives of complex system theory and development as empowerment. It
is ...
This seminar will dissect the rationale behind the ceaseless attack/s on the Black African community in Africa especially in South Africa and recently Nigeria. The Afrocentric perspective will be utilised in trying to ...
This study analyses the possibility of introducing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as an alternative domestic energy source to charcoal in Zambia to mitigate climate change. The study, conducted in Lusaka, used questionnaires, ...
Chemical substance abuse remains a major global health and social problem in a South African context. Social workers are one of the professionals who provide social welfare services to adolescents abusing chemical substances. ...
The prevalence of and increase in unplanned pregnancies (UPs) and the termination of pregnancy (TOP) amongst tertiary students (TSs) have been found to have a detrimental impact on students, their significant others, and ...