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Perceived parental control, restructuring ability, and leisure motivation: a cross-cultural comparison
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Leisure is viewed worldwide as an important developmental context for adolescents. As leisure research and programs are shared across nations, it is crucial to examine the cultural equivalence of leisure-related constructs ...
Predicting secondary school dropout among South African adolescents: A survival analysis approach
(Education Association of South Africa, 2017)
Education is one of the strongest predictors of health worldwide. In South Africa, school dropout is a crisis where by Grade 12, only 52% of the age appropriate population remain enrolled. Survival analysis was used to ...
“The pen is a powerful weapon; it can make you change”: The value of using reflective writing with adolescents
(Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2017)
INTRODUCTION: Adolescent programmes have been criticised for implementing activities but not allowing opportunities for reflection.
One way that reflection can be facilitated is through writing. This paper describes the ...
Occupational therapy students’ perspectives of ethics in two countries: South Africa and the United States of America
(International Journal of Health Sciences, 2019)
Objectives: Worldwide, health-care students, including occupational therapy students undergo ethics training. Ethics training facilitates students’ critical thinking, objective analysis and clinical reasoning skills to ...
Boys are victims, too: the influence of perpetrators’ age and gender in sexual coercion against boys
(SAGE Publications, 2018)
Sexual coercion among adolescent boys in South Africa is an underresearched topic despite the frequency of such events. Although quantitative research has illuminated the prevalence of sexual coercion toward boys, it has ...
An exploratory factor analysis into the applicability of the Spirituality Care-Giving Scale, the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale and the Spirituality in Occupational Therapy Scale to the South African context
(Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2016)
Spirituality and spiritual care are both considered as important elements of health sciences education; however, limited research has
been conducted with occupational therapy students using spirituality scales. Therefore, ...
Teaching spirituality and spiritual care in health sciences education: A systematic review
(AFAHPER-SD, 2016)
Teaching spirituality and spiritual care in health sciences education has been identified as a need to enhance holistic care. However, educators seemed to be unprepared and have insufficient knowledge about how to include ...
A cross-sectional descriptive study of occupational therapy students’ perceptions and attitudes towards spirituality and spiritual care in occupational therapy education
(Springer, 2016)
Spirituality and spiritual care both have received increased attention over the course of this past decade from different disciplines. However, for many years, in the occupational therapy profession, the importance of ...
“We are the Peace Team”: Exploring transformation among previously gang involved young men in Cape Town
(Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2018)
INTRODUCTION: Many young men in South Africa belong to gangs which has negative consequences for individuals and society. Disengaging
from a gang is difficult as it requires transformation; however, little is known about ...
With a little help from my friends? A longitudinal look at the role of peers versus friends on adolescent alcohol use
(Elsevier, 2019)
Introduction: Alcohol is the most commonly used substance by South African adolescents. Social
norms play a key role in alcohol use, although distinctions are not always made between descriptive
and injunctive norms and ...