Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Author "Chipps, Jennifer"
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Mild cognitive impairment and dementia in a heterogeneous elderly population: prevalence and risk profile
Ramlall, Suvira; Chipps, Jennifer; Pillay, Basil; Bhigjee, Ahmed (OMICS Publishing Group, 2013)OBJECTIVE: To describe the demographic, clinical and risk profile of Mild Cognitive Impairment and dementia in a sample of elderly South Africans within a residential setting. METHOD: One hundred and forty participants ... -
A Model for Telepsychiatry for South Africa
Chipps, Jennifer; Ramlall, Suvira; Mars, Maurice (2012)The access of rural Mental Health Care Users in South Africa to specialist psychiatrists and quality mental health care is currently sub-optimal. Health professionals and planners working in psychiatry lack a well-defined ... -
Nursing informatics skills relevance and competence for final year nursing students
Chipps, Jennifer; le Roux, Loretta; Agabus, Jakobina (AOSIS, 2022)The increasing use of technology in nursing practice requires nursing students to be competent in nursing informatics with an attitude of acceptance of technology in the healthcare environment. The objectives of the study ... -
Out of chaos leaders emerged
Brysiewicz, Petra; Chipps, Jennifer (Elsevier, 2023)There has always been a recognition for the need of a strong nursing workforce in his- tory. After the end of World War II, President Truman in the Associated Press, 1946, February 28, stated that nurses are “one of the ... -
Parents perceptions of stress in a neonatal intensive care unit in Rwanda
Chipps, Jennifer; Musabirema, Priscille; Brysiewicz, Petra (Curationis, 2015)BACKGROUND: Having a newborn infant hospitalised in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is an unexpected and stressful event for a family. A number of potential stressors to which family members of patients in these ... -
Performance of the 3-item screener, the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, the Hopkins symptoms checklist-15 and the self-reporting questionnaire and pregnancy risk questionnaire, in screening of depression in antenatal clinics in the Blantyre district of Malawi
Chorwe-Sungani, Genesis; Chipps, Jennifer (University of Malawi, 2018)Screening instruments for antenatal depression vary in performance. This study aimed at assessing the performance of a range of screening instruments in detecting depressive symptoms in antenatal clinics in Blantyre ... -
Practice guidelines for videoconference-based telepsychiatry in South Africa
Chipps, Jennifer; Ramlall, Suvira; Mars, Maurice (OMICS Publishing Group, 2012)Telepsychiatry, the practice of psychiatry over distance using information and communication technologies is, after teleradiology, the most practiced form of telemedicine in the world. As with any new technology, clinical ... -
Professional nurses' knowledge and skills in the management of aggressive patients in a psychiatric hospital in the Western Cape
Bekelepi, Ntombiyakhe; Martin, Penelope D.; Chipps, Jennifer (UNISA Press, 2015)Aggression and violence by patients towards psychiatric nurses are a global issue. Professional nurses working in psychiatric hospitals are required to look after psychiatric patients who may become aggressive. They may ... -
Professional quality of life amongst nurses in psychiatric observation units
Maila, Siyavuya; Martin, Penelope D.; Chipps, Jennifer (OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)Professional quality of life amongst nurses in psychiatric observations units may be affected by working conditions such as an overflow of mental health care users (MHCUs), a shortage of nurses, lack of specialised staff ... -
A profile of social isolation and the influence of demographics in older persons living in residential care, Durban, South Africa
Chipps, Jennifer; Ramlall, Suvira; Jarvis, Mary Ann (International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2020-12-02)Introduction: Residential care settings have shown high social isolation rates with incumbent risks necessitating measurement to formulate health promotion policies. Objective: To measure social isolation levels in older ... -
Promoters and inhibitors of treatment adherence among HIV/AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Ghana: Narratives from an underserved population
Chipps, Jennifer; Dzansi, Gladys; Tornu, Eric (Public Library of Science, 2020)Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential to achieving an improved cluster of differentiation-4 (CD4) count, viral load, and quality of life while preventing drug resistance. Medication adherence among people ... -
Protocol for assessing feasibility, acceptability and fidelity of screening for antenatal depression (FAFSAD) by midwives in Blantyre District, Malawi
Chipps, Jennifer; Chorwe-Sungani, Genesis; Mwagomba, Modesta (Springer Nature, 2021)Depression is often underdiagnosed by treating health professionals. This is a situation in Malawi where there is no routine screening of depression at antenatal clinics. Recently, a Screening Protocol for Antenatal Depression ... -
Readiness of health-care institutions in KwaZulu-Natal to implement telespsychiatry
Chipps, Jennifer; Mars, Maurice (2012)We assessed the preparedness of health districts and designated hospitals in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province for proposed telepsychiatry services. An e-health readiness questionnaire for developing countries was administered ... -
Research in lower middle income countries – recommendations for a national mental health research agenda in South Africa.
Chipps, Jennifer; Ramlall, Suvira (2012)In the current mental health environment in South Africa, the development of a relevant mental health research agenda poses several challenges. This paper provides a brief overview of the current state of published research ... -
Resource tiered reviews – a provisional reporting checklist
Van Hoving, D. J.; Chipps, Jennifer; Jaquet, G. (Elsevier, 2014)AFJEM is committed to publishing review articles that will benefit acute care providers, independent of the resources available to them. As a result we have compiled a checklist aimed specifically at best evidence in the ... -
Role analysis of the nurse/midwives in the health services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Uys, Leana; Chipps, Jennifer; Kohi, Thekla; Makoka, Dickson; Libetwa, Miriam (John Wiley & Sons, 2013)AIM : The aim of this paper is to describe the actual current roles and tasks of nurses in Sub- Saharan African health services. BACKGROUND: The current roles of nurses and midwives in the African region of the World ... -
Screening a heterogeneous elderly South African population for cognitive impairment: the utility and performance of the Mini-Mental State Examination, Six Item Screener, Subjective Memory Rating Scale and Deterioration Cognitive Observee
Ramlall, Suvira; Chipps, Jennifer; Pillay, Basil; Bhigjee, Ahmed (OMICS Publishing Group, 2013)OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to report on the prevalence of cognitive impairment, and to assess the performance and utility of subjective, objective and informant screening tools in a heterogeneous community ... -
Sensitivity and specificity of neuropsychological tests for dementia and mild cognitive impairment in a sample of residential elderly in South Africa
Chipps, Jennifer; Ramlall, Suvira; Pillay, Basil; Bhigjee, Ahmed (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2014)BACKGROUND. Neuropsychological tests can successfully distinguish between healthy elderly persons and those with clinically significant cognitive impairment. Objectives. A battery of neuropsychological tests was evaluated ... -
The sensitivity and specificity of subjective memory complaints and the subjective memory rating scale, deterioration cognitive observee, mini-mental state examination, six-item screener and clock drawing test in Dementia Screening.
Ramlall, Suvira; Chipps, Jennifer; Bhigjee, Ahmed; Pillay, Basil (Karger, 2013)Background: The effectiveness of dementia screening depends on the availability of suitable screening tools with good sensitivity and specificity to confidently distinguish normal age-related cognitive decline from dementia. ... -
Social capital and mental wellbeing of older people residing in a residential care facility in Durban, South Africa
Chipps, Jennifer; Jarvis, Mary Ann (Taylor & Francis, 2015)INTRODUCTION: Global increases in life expectancy are expected to continue, with accompanying physical and mental wellbeing challenges specifically for older people living in residential care settings. OBJECTIVE: The aim ...