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Adolescent and nurse perspectives of psychotherapeutic interventions for PTSD delivered through task-shifting in a low resource setting
(Public Library of Science, 2017)Background: This investigation compared the perceived effectiveness of supportive counselling (SC) and prolonged exposure for adolescents (PE-A) by treatment users (adolescents with PTSD) and non-specialist treatment ... -
Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder : why should we pay attention?
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder, with a chronic, costly and debilitating course if untreated. Limited access to diagnosis and treatment for adults with ... -
Are consumers’ quality perceptions influenced by brand familiarity, brand exposure and brand knowledge? results from a wine tasting experiment
(AOSIS, 2017)Theory posits that, over time, placebo-type brand-equity effects may develop through the process of wine purchase and consumption. This being so, the extent to which factors like brand familiarity, brand exposure and brand ... -
Audits of oncology units – an effective and pragmatic approach
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Background. Audits of oncology units are part of all quality-assurance programmes. However, they do not always come across as pragmatic and helpful to staff. Objective. To report on the results of an online survey on ... -
The bird’s-eye perspective : how do district health managers experience the impact of family physicians within the South African district health system? a qualitative study
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)Background: Health policy-makers in Africa are looking for local solutions to strengthen primary care teams. A South African national position paper (2015) described six aspirational roles of family physicians (FPs) working ... -
Codeine misuse and dependence in South Africa : perspectives of addiction treatment providers
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Background. General practitioners are referring patients with codeine-related problems to specialist treatment facilities, but little is known about the addiction treatment providers, the kinds of treatment they provide, ... -
Cognitive-perceptual deficits and symptom correlates in first-episode schizophrenia
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Background: Thought disorder and visual-perceptual deficits have been well documented, but their relationships with clinical symptoms and cognitive function remain unclear. Cognitive-perceptual deficits may underscore ... -
Cortisol levels in different tissue samples in posttraumatic stress disorder patients versus controls : a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019-01-07)Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that develops following exposure to severely stressful events. Altered cortisol secretion has been reported in PTSD; however, results have been inconsistent ... -
Decentralised training for medical students : towards a South African consensus
(AOSIS publishing, 2017-09)Introduction: Health professions training institutions are challenged to produce greater numbers of graduates who are more relevantly trained to provide quality healthcare. Decentralised training offers opportunities to ... -
Determinants of the quality of internet investor relations – a study of companies listed on the JSE#
(AOSIS, 2017)Investor relations is the field of management that is concerned with the relationships between companies and investors, and as such involves a wide variety of information types, for example mandatory, voluntary, financial, ... -
The development of an evidence-based clinical checklist for the diagnosis of anterior knee pain
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Background: Anterior knee pain (AKP) or patellofemoral pain syndrome is common and may limit an individual’s ability to perform common activities of daily living such as stair climbing and prolonged sitting. The diagnosis ... -
Development spots in communication during the management of the intrapartum period : an interpretive multiple case study in a developing context
(AOSIS publishing, 2017-07)Background: Health care activities are influenced by information communication between women during pregnancy, birth and motherhood and skilled birth attendants (SBAs) and further, between the health care workers during ... -
Diving under the influence : issues in researching personality and inert gas narcosis
(Via Medica, 2017)Background: This paper considers the relationship between measures of personality and mood states, and susceptibility to inert gas narcosis. It briefly reviews the topics of inert gas narcosis affecting personality, and ... -
Does investing in sound corporate governance pay? a South African study
(AOSIS, 2017)Despite increased recognition of the importance of sound corporate governance practices in emerging markets, previous researchers reported inconclusive evidence on the association between corporate governance and financial ... -
Effectiveness of exercise in office workers with neck pain : a systematic review and meta-analysis
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Background: Non-specific neck pain is a common health problem of global concern for office workers. This systematic review ascertained the latest evidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic exercise versus no therapeutic ... -
Entrepreneurial women’s cognitive ambidexterity : career and cultural influences
(AOSIS, 2017)The purpose of this study was to examine how women’s career stage and Ubuntu (collectivist) values relate to their cognitive ambidexterity when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives in multicultural South Africa. In this ... -
Evaluating the effect of the practical approach to Care Kit on teaching medical students primary care : quasi-experimental study
(AOSIS publishing, 2017-12)Background: South Africa is committed to health reforms that strengthen primary health care. Preparing future doctors to work in primary care teams with other professionals is a priority, and medical schools have shifted ... -
Examining the influence of family physician supply on district health system performance in South Africa: An ecological analysis of key health indicators
(AOSIS publishing, 2017-04)Background: The supply of appropriate health workers is a key building block in the World Health Organization’s model of effective health systems. Primary care teams are stronger if they contain doctors with postgraduate ... -
The existence of planar hypotraceable oriented graphs
(Discrete Mathematics & amp; Theoretical Computer Science, 2017)A digraph is \emph{traceable} if it has a path that visits every vertex. A digraph D is \emph{hypotraceable} if D is not traceable but D−v is traceable for every vertex v∈V(D). It is known that there exists a planar ... -
An exploration of burn survivors’ experiences of pressure garment therapy at a tertiary hospital in South Africa
(Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2017)ntroduction: Pressure garment therapy is used to treat hypertrophic scars, but adherence to this intervention presents challenges. The aim of the paper was to explore the pressure garment therapy experiences of adult burn ...
