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An investigation into utilising gestational body mass index as a screening tool for adverse birth outcomes and maternal morbidities in a group of pregnant women in Khayelitsha
(Medpharm Publications, 2013)
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of the gestational body mass index (BMI) method to screen for adverse birth outcomes and maternal morbidities.
Design: This was a substudy of a randomised ...
Who can we reach and who can we keep? predictors of intervention engagement and adherence in a cluster randomized controlled trial in South Africa
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-02-27)
Background: Engaging and retaining young men in community-based interventions is highly challenging. The
purpose of this study was to investigate the individual factors that predict intervention engagement and adherence
in ...
Parenting in a time of COVID-19
(Elsevier, 2020)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is changing family life. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization estimates 1·38 billion children are out of school or child care, without access to ...
Psychosocial interventions targeting mental health in pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents : a systematic review
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-05-14)
Background: Pregnancy and parenthood are known to be high-risk times for mental health. However, less is
known about the mental health of pregnant adolescents or adolescent parents. Despite the substantial literature ...
Home visits by community health workers in rural South Africa have a limited, but important impact on maternal and child health in the first two years of life
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-06-29)
Background: More than 50% of Africa’s population lives in rural areas, which have few professional health workers.
South Africa has adopted task shifting health care to Community Health Workers (CHWs) to achieve the ...
Community health workers impact on maternal and child health outcomes in rural South Africa : a non-randomized two-group comparison study
(BioMed Central, 2020-09-17)
Background: Home visits by paraprofessional community health workers (CHWs) has been shown to improve
maternal and child health outcomes in research studies in many countries. Yet, when these are scaled or replicated,
efficacy ...
Instructive roles and supportive relationships : client perspectives of their engagement with community health workers in a rural south African home visiting program
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2021-01-13)
Background: Community health worker (CHW) programs have been positioned as a way to meet the needs of
those who experience marginalization and inequitable access to health care, and current global health narratives
also ...
Evaluating the dissemination and scale-up of two evidence-based parenting interventions to reduce violence against children : study protocol
Background: Eliminating violence against children is a prominent policy goal, codified in the Sustainable
Development Goals, and parenting programs are one approach to preventing and reducing violence. However, we
know ...
What the science of child and adolescent development contributes to understanding the impacts of COVID-19
(ASSAf, 2021)
As of 8 September 2020, there were 27 236 916 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 891 031 deaths reported
to the World Health Organization.1 The direct effects of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) and COVID-19 (the disease ...
Balancing roles and blurring boundaries : community health workers’ experiences of navigating the crossroads between personal and professional life in rural South Africa
(Wiley, 2020-09)
As demand for health services grows, task-shifting to lay health workers has become an attractive solution to address shortages in human resources. Community health workers (CHWs), particularly in low-resource settings, ...