Background: Despite extensive evidence on the magnitude of intimate partner violence (IPV) as a public health problem worldwide, insubstantial progress has been made in the development and implementation of sufficiently ...
Van Zyl, Marjorie Alice(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Child mortality is a worldwide problem and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 8,1 million children under the age of five years die each year. The Millennium Development Goals focus on the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The objectives of this study were to explore patients’ experiences about long waiting time at the Vanguard Community Health Care Centre in the Western Cape and to explore possible solutions for this problem ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Taking into consideration the long duration of standard treatment for Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (TB), the high prevalence of HIV co-infection and the growing prevalence of
drug-resistant TB, there is ...
Shasha, Alethea Christina N.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Non-compliance with (tuberculosis) TB treatment is a problem at the Nyanga Clinic in the Western Cape Province. Non-compliance is defined as when a patient interrupted TB treatment for more than two months ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus of the study is on clients’ experiences of substance abuse
recovery in a faith-based programme in the Western Cape. In describing
the nature and extent of the substance abuse problem at an ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The university environment provides many opportunities to be sexually active. University
students are reported as tending to engage in high-risk behaviours related to sex, alcohol and
drugs. First-year ...
Mc Kenzie, Lena(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation has become an increasingly popular treatment option for persons with life-threatening blood related diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and certain forms ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Healthcare organizations have implemented numerous safety initiatives to address errors due to the impact on the patient, families, healthcare provider and the organization as highlighted in the Institute ...
Brand, Catharina Gertruida Maria(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Saudi Arabia has experienced a number of changes due to revolutionary new findings and technologies, discoveries and new research in the health care arena, which has proven and contradicted a new approach ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: Research supervision forms an essential part of higher education. The emergence of global trends in the production and dissemination of knowledge is compelling universities and university of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The shortage of nurses in the intensive care units (ICU) affects both the nurse and the patient with regard to quality care and the quality of work life. Job satisfaction as well as factors within the ...
Loubser, Helena Wilhelmina(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Scientific evidence based practices are essential to efficient health service delivery. Continuous education to Master’s Degree level is the springboard to future research projects, but the throughput of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The issue of attrition of undergraduate participant nurses has remained a concern for an extremely long time. Attrition has been labelled as complex and in order to understand attrition it is important ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Unnoticed deterioration in the clinical condition of children in ward areas can lead to near or actual cardiopulmonary arrest. Children suffering from a cardiac arrest in hospital often display abnormal ...