ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Having a child with neurodevelopmental disabilities has a significant impact on the well-being of parents, including experiencing distress and enduring emotional, financial and physical pressure, due to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Faculty Health Sciences, University of ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Stellenbosch, South Africa, delivers a rehabilitation training programme to its MBChB students. The aim of ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction: Rehabilitation is recognised as important in helping stroke survivors achieve their highest levels of functional independence and best quality of life. Conversely, a lack of rehabilitation ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The decentralisation of health care services in the primary health care
system poses a challenge to the delivery of care to the communities in
Zambia. Little is being done in the Ministry of Health to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Child abuse is a problem worldwide and also a serious problem in South Africa. Recent statistics revealed an increase in reported cases. Incidence of abuse is difficult to determine accurately but there ...
Dingana, Carol Joyce Nomalungelo(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This was an investigation into the needs of people with physical disabilities in the district of Butterworth, and their accessibility to available resources, conducted with the aim of improving service ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a descriptive, phenomenological, qualitative study which explores the experiences of and coping strategies employed by the parents/caregivers of disabled children in the management of their care, ...
Du Plessis, Theresa(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rehabilitation therapists are at risk for burnout as a result of their emotionally challenging and stressful jobs. No South African studies could be found that focus on burnout in therapists who work in ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Several legislative documents that promote the inclusion and economic integration of persons with disabilities have been introduced over the previous two decades in South Africa. However, it is still ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A qualitative study was utilised as it was appropriate for the study of attitudes of non-disabled people of Sakhisizwe towards people with disabilities (PWDs). This case study set out to: investigate the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Narrative skills have found to be a predictor of academic success with clear correlations to later
reading and writing abilities in children. The quality of narratives and the language disorders
displayed ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Lower limb amputations cause multiple physical, psychological, environmental and socioeconomic
barriers. Individuals who have suffered a lower limb amputation require
comprehensive rehabilitation to ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Cochlear implantation is an expensive but cost-effective intervention which must be used for
life. It can provide individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss improved sound
perception in comparison ...
Du Toit, C. J.(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 1975)
There is an urgent need for comprehensive audiological services in South Africa to deal adequately with the problems of clinical, industrial and social medicine. The organisation built up in and around the Tygerberg Hospital ...
Pretorius, Sandra S.(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In South Africa, rapid urbanisation and epidemiological transition have left the black urban population vulnerable to diseases of lifestyle such as chronic heart failure. This is in part due to the fact ...