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Behavioural and protective factors contributing to the risk and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among individuals with spinal cord injuries in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
HIV/AIDS has made a huge impact on human development and sexual reproductive habits in this century in the world and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. It has only recently been acknowledged that HIV/AIDS has an equal if ...
Perceptions of clinical supervisors about their preparedness for clinical teaching at a university in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Background: Clinical supervision or clinical accompaniment is considered an integral part of nursing education and is crucial for the development of nursing students’ clinical competence. In order to achieve this, clinical ...
Clinical supervisors’ perceptions regarding the factors that promote or inhibit nursing students’ skills transfer from the skills laboratory to the clinical practice environment
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Background: Nursing as a profession is based on firm knowledge, values, clinical skills and attitudes. In the current dynamic healthcare system nursing students are challenged to be insightful and have clinical reasoning ...
The perceptions of clinical physiotherapists of their role in supervising undergraduate students in selected tertiary hospitals in Tanzania
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Clinical exposure is a major training component that professional training institutions use to
inculcate among undergraduate physiotherapy students clinical knowledge and skills from a real
world context. Good perceptions ...
An assessment of the characteristics of adolescents at enrolment into anti-retroviral therapy, and factors influencing their retention into HIV care and treatment in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study was undertaken within the context of stagnation in the trend of new HIV infections
among adolescents globally coupled with increasing mortality within this sub-population as
well (UNICEF 2015 report). This ...
The experiences and perceptions of individuals with stroke about the usefulness of the model of occupational self efficacy in a rural setting
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Individuals diagnosed with stroke particularly in rural communities have a poor return to work rate. Vocational rehabilitation has been used as an intervention strategy with various types of clients with disability or ...
Assessing treatment outcomes of people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy at Kakamega County General Hospital in Kenya
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Background: The goal of ART therapy is sustained viral load suppression with good immunological and clinical response. This optimal response to therapy results in the prevention of emergent ART drug-resistant mutations, ...
Loss to follow up from HIV care among workers in the South African Clothing And Textile Workers Union in Ethekwini District, Kwazulu Natal
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Background: Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) is a public health challenge worldwide. Antiretroviral therapies (ART) are medications that treat HIV virus infection by suppressing the virus and stopping progression of HIV ...
Review of outcomes for isoniazid preventive therapy among HIV infected clients at a clinic in Swaziland
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Background: TB is one of the most common opportunistic infections in the HIV infected population. In 2014, of the 9.6 million people estimated to have TB globally, 1.2 million were also infected with HIV. In the same year ...
The contribution of divorce to parental self-efficacy and perception of parenting among divorced parents: A qualitative study
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Divorce and self-efficacy are areas that have been studied quite widely and extensively in recent decades. Going through a divorce has an effect on how parents actually parent their children, which in turn has an effect ...