Families with ASD children who have little support from a partner, friends, community
and health care professionals report increased depression and lower life satisfaction
compared to families with a good deal of social ...
Health literacy related to medication use or instructions is crucial to diabetes
mellitus patients. The verbal or written instructions are given to diabetes
mellitus patients regarding medication use is important to ...
Purpose of the study
The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of couples on disclosure of their HIV-positive status to each other.
Research methodology Qualitative, Phenomenology, exploratory ...
Background: Many deaths in hospitals occur within 24 hours of admission. Some of these deaths could be prevented if the patients were effectively triaged, identified quickly and treatment initiated without delay. Triage ...
Introduction: Health seeking behaviours are explained as a dynamic interaction of cognitive, behavioural and effective elements, focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of individuals preceded by a decision-making process ...
Background: Non-attendance of diabetic patients at primary health care facilities for scheduled appointments has been identified as one of the most pressing issues in chronic illness, including diabetes mellitus, management ...
A master’s program in nursing is an essential tool to prepare students to manage and offer health care services to the public professionally and successfully. However, there has been low enrolment of professional nurses ...
The ability of professional nurses to support and motivate people living with HIV and AIDS to disclose to sexual partner continue to be a challenge based on the social, economic, psychological and ethical circumstances ...
Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of adherence to Infection Prevention and Control (IP&C) practices and programs amongst healthcare workers (HCWs) in the neonatal ward at Charlotte Maxeke ...
Quality health care includes availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, competence of health care providers, reducing waiting time, ensuring privacy and confidentiality, ensuring safety and security, and ...
Introduction and background
The shortage of human resources in rural areas remains a crisis, especially in subSaharan Africa, affecting rural primary health centres. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe ...
Introduction: Health care workers have a pivotal role in the management of Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and their well-being is consequently crucial as it could impact ...
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus has become a worldwide problem that is continuing to rise resulting in morbidity and mortality in developing countries.Finland developed the FINDRISC tool. Canada uses the Finnish Diabetes ...
Graduate throughput of student nurses is one of the priorities of the National Department of Health in Republic of South Africa. New nurse graduates are expected to curb the obvious shortage of nurses in the nursing ...
BACKGROUND
Midwifery learning encompasses both theory and experiential components. Experiential learning plays an important role in midwifery training. Conducting the first normal vaginal delivery seemed traumatic for the ...
The aim of this study was to determine the adaptations of midwives to their
work after maternal deaths at a tertiary hospital complex in Limpopo Province.
Qualitative phenomenological, exploratory, descriptive and ...
Perinatal morbidity is a public health indicator of the level of equality in a country. Its prevention has major medical, social and economic costs. The aim of this study was to describe factors contributing to high perinatal ...
Maphothi, Nandi Nobukhosi(University of Limpopo, 2014)
The purpose of this study was to explore effects of teenage motherhood on the secondary education of the female learner. A qualitative research method and a descriptive, exploratory research design were adopted to undertake ...
Mohatli, Matema Constance(University of Limpopo, 2015)
Tuberculosis (TB) patients may have mixed infections with both drug-susceptible and drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strains. This phenomenon termed heteroresistance presents a challenge TB management and ...