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Structured feedback on students’ concept maps: the proverbial path to learning?
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Good conceptual knowledge is an essential requirement for health professions students, in that they
are required to apply concepts learned in the classroom to a variety of different contexts. However, the use ...
Principles and processes behind promoting awareness of rights for quality maternal care services: a synthesis of stakeholder experiences and implementation factors
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Promoting awareness of rights is a value-based process that entails a different way of thinking and
acting, which is at times misunderstood or deemed as aspirational.
METHODS: Guided by the SURE framework, ...
STACKing the odds for adolescent survival: health service factors associated with full retention in care and adherence amongst adolescents living with HIV in South Africa
(Wiley Open Access, 2018)
INTRODUCTION: There are two million HIV-positive adolescents in southern Africa, and this group has low retention in care and
high mortality. There is almost no evidence to identify which healthcare factors can improve ...
Storying unstoried experience in therapeutic practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Sometimes life events resist storying. Although their conversion into narrative form is often recommended
as a therapeutic strategy, particularly in the case of trauma, this can be a difficult and complex
process. Sometimes ...
The use of the Model of Occupational Self Efficacy in improving the cognitive functioning of individuals with brain injury: A pre- and post-intervention study
(IOS Press, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Individuals diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) often experience major limitations in returning to work despite participating in rehabilitation programmes.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to ...
Nurses’ knowledge of tuberculosis, HIV, and integrated HIV/TB care policies in rural Western Cape, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2018)
HIV and tuberculosis (TB) co-infection remain the
leading causes of mortality in many developing countries.
Several policies for their prevention and management
exist; however, progress to meet the World
Health ...
Children’s representations of nature using photovoice and community mapping: perspectives from South Africa
(Co-Action Publishing:, 2017)
The aim of the study was to explore children’s representations and perceptions of natural spaces using photovoice and community mapping. The sample consisted of 28 children aged 12–14 years residing in urban and rural ...
A systematic review of screening instruments for depression for use in antenatal services in low resource settings
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: In low resource settings, short, valid and reliable instruments with good high sensitivity and specificity are
essential for the screening of depression in antenatal care. A review of published evidence on ...
Adolescents’ perceptions of the ‘substance use violence nexus’: a South African perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
The aim of the study was to explore adolescents’ perceptions of substance use as a contributing factor to community violence by employing a conceptual framework proposed by Goldstein. Data were collected from a sample of ...
Toward elimination of mother–to–child transmission of HIV in South Africa: how best to monitor early infant infections within the Prevention of Mother–to–Child Transmission Program
(Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2017)
BACKGROUNDSouth Africa has utilized three independent
data sources to measure the impact of its program
for the prevention of mother–to–child transmission
(PMTCT) of HIV. These include the South African
National Health ...