Faculty of Community and Health Sciences: Recent submissions
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Enabling appropriate personnel skill-mix for progressive realization of equitable access to assistive technology
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Background and Methods: This paper reviews the current capacity of personnel in enabling access to assistive technology (AT) as well as the systems and processes within which they work, and was reviewed, discussed, and ... -
Nutritional knowledge amongst an adult South African sample of low socioeconomic status
(AFAHPER-SD, 2018)The aim of this study was to determine the socioeconomic predictors of nutritional knowledge (NK) based on total household income, educational level and employment status. A secondary aim was to determine the relationship ... -
Role of community health workers in type 2 diabetes mellitus self-management: A scoping review
(PLOS, 2018)Background: Globally the number of people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has risen significantly over the last few decades. Aligned to this is a growing use of community health workers (CHWs) to deliver T2DM ... -
Occupational therapy students’ experiences and perceptions of culture during fieldwork education
(SAJOT, 2018)Background: Understanding a client’s culture allows practitioners to consider the planning of intervention and allows for a client centred approach to be provided. During fieldwork education occupational therapy students ... -
“I attend at Vanguard and I attend here as well”: barriers to accessing healthcare services among older South Africans with HIV and non-communicable diseases
(Springer Nature, 2018)Background: HIV and non-communicable disease (NCD) are syndemic within sub-Saharan Africa especially among older persons. The two epidemics interact with one another within a context of poverty, inequality and inequitable access ... -
Strengthening the capabilities of families and communities to improve child health in low and middle income countries
(BMJ, 2018)The concept of community involvement in delivery of healthcare gained prominence after the 1978 Alma Ata conference on primary care. Many countries established large scale community health worker programmes with paid or ... -
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 ... -
Association between dietary adherence, anthropometric measurements and blood pressure in an urban black population, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Objectives: The aim was to determine participants’ dietary adherence by calculating a diet adherence score based on the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-style diet; (2) to determine if there was an association ... -
Gearing up for implementation: A new Children's Act for South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)The South African Government is presently processing a new comprehensive Children's Act, which is expected to be promulgated in 2008. The primary purpose of the Act is to give effect to the rights of children as contained ... -
These may not be the courses you are seeking: a systematic review of open online courses in health professions education
(BMC, 2019)Introduction: Open Online Courses (OOCs) are increasingly presented as a possible solution to the many challenges of higher education. However, there is currently little evidence available to support decisions around the ... -
Predictors of student agency: the relationship between student agency, learning support and learning experiences in an interprofessional health science faculty.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study illustrates how student agency is formed based on the lecturer-student relationship, learning support and learning experiences in an interprofessional education environment. This study assessed the association ... -
Parenting practice, leisure experience, and substance use among South African adolescents
(Routledge, 2019)There is limited understanding of parents’ role in positive youth/adolescent development through leisure in developing countries. Using a sample of 6,626 eighth-grade students in South Africa, this study examined the ... -
Profiles of adolescent leisure motivation and substance use in the HealthWise South Africa research trial: a person-centered approach
(Routledge, 2018)Engaging in intrinsically motivated behaviors, both within and outside of the leisure context, is associated with well-being. However, individuals can be driven by multiple types of motivation simultaneously, and the ... -
Doing a leisure activity because there is nothing else to do: Related outcomes and intervention effects for adolescents
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)This study examined whether a leisure-focused intervention, HealthWise, was related to reduced youth polysubstance use and delayed sexual debut via reducing how often youth did leisure activities because there was nothing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Opportunities for linking research to policy: lessons learned from implementation research in sexual and reproductive health within the ANSER network
(Springer Nature, 2018)Background: The uptake of findings from sexual and reproductive health and rights research into policy-making remains a complex and non-linear process. Different models of research utilisation and guidelines to maximise ... -
Factors which enhance or hinder meeting the educational needs of autistic children in Western Cape province, South Africa: A parents’ perspective
(International Journal of Special Education, 2018)There is growing interest in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a result of the increasing prevalence rates, and because children with ASD find it particularly challenging to enter the educational system. The present study ... -
Results from South Africa’s 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth
(Human Kinetics, 2018)The 2018 Report Card for South Africa (SA) (Figure 1) presents the latest available evidence relating to physical activity (PA) of SA school-aged children since the 2016 Report Card. The absence of nationally representative ... -
What happens when employees are furloughed? A resource loss perspective
(Sage, 2019)Furloughs refer to placing employees on a temporary leave with no pay for the period of the leave. The current study draws from conservation of resources (COR) theory to examine how furloughs affect employees’ experiences ...