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Households in HIV care: designing an intervention to stimulate HIV competency in households in South Africa
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)
Despite the Universal Test and Treat program and widespread antiretroviral treatment rollout, South Africa is still facing HIV prevention and treatment challenges, which are aggravated by human resource shortages in the ...
Looking back
(José Frantz, 2020)
Professors Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu have in this edition of Signals provided useful insight into the importance of theory,
history, archives and the humanities in South Africa, and how
they can help “assist us in ...
The tale of academic practice in a rising knowledge society: focus on a university in South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)
This paper is based on a study conducted to establish if academic practice in a university designated as Azania is aligning or diverting from the expectations of the rising knowledge society in South Africa. The paper is ...
Translation of the shortened dental arch research into clinical practice: A stakeholder mapping approach
(Springer Nature, 2020)
The classic shortened dental arch (SDA) as a prosthodontic
concept was originally described by Käyser and comprises of 20
occluding anterior and premolar teeth only.1,2 This SDA
treatment option, now also referred to ...
The value of occupational therapy intervention for the worker roles of forensic mental healthcare users in Cape Town, South Africa
(IOS Press, 2021)
BACKGROUND: There is a void in research that focuses on how OT programs facilitate self-esteem in forensic mental healthcare users' return-to-work in the open labor market, particularly in South Africa. OBJECTIVE: To explore ...
COVID-19 food security
(José Frantz, 2021)
It’s not as if South Africa started 2020 on the right foot. The latest
available numbers suggest that about 11% of the country’s population
(or around 6.5-million people) suffer from hunger every year.
We should not ...
Testing a self-determination theory model of healthy eating in a South African township
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the leading causes of death and disability, and its prevalence has been growing rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa (International Diabetes Federation, 2017). In response to this T2D pandemic, ...
Unmasking the state of basic education in South Africa
(José Frantz, 2021)
The Covid-19 lockdown period laid bare the fibre of South African
society: poverty, homelessness, welfare dependence, domestic violence,
police and military brutality, healthcare and hunger are all suddenly
under national ...
Task-sharing of psychological treatment for antenatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa: Effects on antenatal and postnatal outcomes in an individual randomised controlled trial
(Elsevier, 2020)
The study's objective was to determine the effectiveness of a task-sharing psychological treatment for perinatal depression using non-specialist community health workers. A double-blind individual randomised controlled ...
Children’s hope in South Africa: A population-based Study
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)
A growing body of research has provided evidence for the cognitive motivational construct of hope as a psychological strength, particularly for children in adverse social circumstances. In children, hope is defined as a ...