Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Author "Mathews, Catherine"
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Boys are victims, too: the influence of perpetrators’ age and gender in sexual coercion against boys
Miller, Jacqueline A.; Smith, Edward A.; Caldwell, Linda L.; Mathews, Catherine; Wegner, Lisa (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 ... -
Boys Are Victims, Too: The Influence of Perpetrators’ Age and Gender in Sexual Coercion Against Boys
Miller, Jacqueline A.; Smith, Edward A.; Caldwell, Linda L.; Mathews, Catherine; Wegner, Lisa (SAGE Journal, 2021-04)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 ... -
Contraceptive service uptake and delivery preferences in perinatally and horizontally infected female adolescents living with HIV: Results from a South Africa-based mixed-methods study’
Olagbuji, Biodun; Cooper, Diane; Mathews, Catherine (Elsevier, 2022)To investigate whether contraceptive service uptake (including current contraceptive use), unmet need for contraception, unintended pregnancy, preferences for service provision, and providers among female adolescents ... -
The Feasibility of implementing a sexual risk reduction intervention in routine clinical practice at an ARV clinic in Cape Town: a case study
Dewing, Sarah; Mathews, Catherine; Schaay, Nikki; Cloete, Allanise; Simbayi, Leickness; Chopra, Mickey (Springer, 2011)This case study with one lay adherence counsellor assessed the implementation of Options for Health, a sexual risk-reduction intervention based on Motivational Interviewing (MI), in an antiretroviral clinic in Cape ... -
Forced sexual experiences and sexual situation self-efficacy among South African youth
Miller, Jacqueline A.; Smith, Edward A.; Coffman, Donna; Mathews, Catherine; Wegner, Lisa (Wiley, 2015)Nearly 20% of South African youth experience forced or coerced sexual intercourse. Understanding the factors associated with forced sex is important for informing prevention programs aimed at reducing sexual violence and ... -
From research to practice: Lay adherence counsellors' fidelity to an evidence-based intervention for promoting adherence to antiretroviral treatment in the Western Cape, South Africa
Dewing, Sarah; Mathews, Catherine; Cloete, Allanise; Schaay, Nikki; Shah, Madhvi; Simbayi, Leickness; Louw, Johann (Springer Verlag, 2013)In the Western Cape, lay counsellors are tasked with supporting antiretroviral (ARV) adherence in public healthcare clinics. Thirty-nine counsellors in 21 Cape Town clinics were trained in Options for Health (Options), an ... -
"It's important to take your medication everyday okay?" An evaluation of counselling by lay counsellors for ARV adherence support in the Western Cape, South Africa
Dewing, Sarah; Mathews, Catherine; Schaay, Nikki; Cloete, Allanise; Simbayi, Leickness; Louw, Johann (Springer, 2013)There is growing interest in standard care programmes for antiretroviral (ARV) adherence support. In South Africa, individual counselling following ARV initiation is a main strategy for supporting adherence in the public ... -
Linking Life Skills and Norms with adolescent substance use and delinquency in South Africa
Lai, Mary H.; Graham, John W.; Caldwell, Linda L.; Smith, Edward A.; Bradley, Stephanie A.; Mathews, Catherine; Vergnani, Tania; Wegner, Lisa (National Institute of Health, 2013)We examined factors targeted in two popular prevention approaches with adolescent drug use and delinquency in South Africa. We hypothesized adolescent life skills to be inversely related, and perceived norms to be directly ... -
Predicting substance use behavior among South African adolescents: The role of leisure experiences across time
Sharp, Erin Hiley; Coffman, Donna; Caldwell, Linda L.; Smith, Edward A.; Wegner, Lisa; Vergnani, Tania; Mathews, Catherine (SAGE Publications, 2011)Using seven waves of data, collected twice a year from the 8th through the 11th grades in a low-resource community in Cape Town, South Africa, we aimed to describe the developmental trends in three specific leisure experiences ... -
Translational research in South Africa: evaluating implementation quality using a factorial design
Caldwell, Linda L.; Smith, Edward A.; Collins, Linda M.; Graham, John W.; Lai, Mary H.; Wegner, Lisa; Vergnani, Tania; Mathews, Catherine; Jacobs, Joachim (Springer Verlag, 2012)Background: HealthWise South Africa: Life Skills for Adolescents (HW) is an evidence- based substance use and sexual risk prevention program that emphasizes the positive use of leisure time. Since 2000, this program has ...