Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Title
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Tailoring a pre-prosthetic training course for community health workers in a rural setting within South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)More than a third of South Africa's population resides in rural areas. The attraction and retention of suitably trained medical professionals is a problem faced almost universally by those living in rural areas. Access ... -
Teacher - occupational therapist collaboration in the implementation of a classroom approach to enhance inclusive education in primary mainstream schools: A case study
(University of Western Cape, 2019)The collaboration between occupational therapists and teachers within the classroom is a relatively new practice in South Africa and few literature sources can be found reporting on studies in this regard specifically ... -
Teacher support teams: a school-based strategy for the provision of education support services and health promotion
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)Teacher support teams :a school-based strategy for the provision of education support services and health promotion. -
Teachers' perceptions of pupil behaviours: a study of high school teachers' attitude
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Teenage girls' access to and utilization of adolescent reproductive health services in the Mpika District, Zambia
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)Teenage pregnancy is one of the major public health problems facing teenage girls in Zambia (Webb, 2000; Warenius, 2008). Teenage girls access to and utilization of adolescent reproductive health (ARH) services is important ... -
Teenage girls' experiences of pregnancy and motherhood
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Teenage pregnancy and motherhood is a challenging phenomenon worldwide. The goal of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions and experiencesof a sample of teenage girls about pregnancy, birth and motherhood. ... -
Teenage mothers’ reflections of their unintended, repeat pregnancies
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)Globally, teenage pregnancy remains a disturbing phenomenon which impacts on the lives of teenagers, their families and society as a whole. Numerous attempts at addressing the problem have seen a decline in fertility rates ... -
Testing three measures of subjective well-being amongst a sample of 8-year-old children
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Research on children’s well-being has increased over the past decade, largely driven by advancements in children’s rights legislation and the emergence of innovative theoretical and epistemological frameworks. While there ... -
Testing two measures of subjective well-being amongst a sample of children in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)Recent advancements in child well-being research have shown an increased interest in the importance of subjective well-being. The development of instruments and scales to measure subjective well-being among children and ... -
Text neck syndrome in undergraduate health science students from a university in the Western Cape: A crosssectional study
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Cell phones are indispensable tools for the student population. Excessive exposure to these devices could lead to postural deformities that cause pain and decrease students’ quality of life. Secondary musculoskeletal pain ... -
The clinical presentation of Cerebral Palsy in children in rural Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Introduction: Cerebral palsy is a common neurological disorder with a prevalence of between 2 and 3 per 1000 live births globally and up 10 to per 1000 in rural South Africa. Children with cerebral palsy present with ... -
The communication challenges between nurses and patients in an urban emergency centre in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)BACKGROUND: The perceptions of the communication, between patients and nurses in an urban emergency centre of a district hospital, were explored to identify the challenges. PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to explore ... -
The design and development of guidelines to integrate spirituality and spiritual care into occupational therapy education using design-based research
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Spirituality and spiritual care have been gaining importance in recent years in occupational therapy education as constructs related to holistic and personcentred approaches, in order to improve occupational therapy practice. ... -
The development of a community-based model for promotion of cervical cancer prevention for Yoruba women in Ibadan Nigeria
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. The global disparities in cervical cancer incidence and mortality between wealthy and poor countries are likely related to lack of prevention and ... -
The development of a contextually based programme designed to increase family resilience processes for families in a rural community on the West Coast South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Family environments can greatly affect the prospects of the children and their succeeding generations. South Africa's socio-political history and contextual circumstances continue to affect the structure and functioning ... -
The development of a screening tool for assessing emotional social competence in preschoolers as a domain of school readiness
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Literature identified that emotional/ social competence is under-emphasised in favour of cognitive domains in assessment of school readiness. Socio-cultural and risk factors in the South African context complicate school ... -
The effect of a four-week, web-based visual skills training program on attention, timing and eye-hand coordination in 13 to 15-year-old adolescents
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)There is a rising concern that more and more children struggle to pay attention and to concentrate in school. The ability to concentrate on a task, switching attention between different tasks and inhibiting impulsive ... -
The effect of a proprioceptive training programme on ankle injury rates in soccer players in Rwanda.
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Background: Soccer is one of the most popular sports throughout the world, with more than 270 million players estimated to be participating in 2000. Soccer results in many injuries, with the lower extremities most commonly ... -
The effectiveness of dry needling as an intervention for acute Myofascial low back pain
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Myofascial pain syndrome is a condition caused by myofascial trigger points, which could occur in any area of the body, that affects a large number of the general population and is reported to impair mobility, cause pain, ... -
The influence of peer, community and religion on adolescent substance use in the Cape Metropolitan area
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of peer, community and religious influences on alcohol and tobacco use among high school adolescents from three different dominant groups of South Africa i.e. African, ...