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The Impact of Life-Long Illness on Women: A Qualitative Study of Low Socio-Economic Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Pamela Naidoo --- University of Western Cape,The purpose of this qualitative, ethnographic study was to explore the impact of a chronic disease on low socio-economic women with RA in South Africa. Ten women participants with a mean age of 48 years and a mean duration of... -
Cultural Embeddedness of Health, Illness and Healing: Prospects for Integrating Indigenous and Western Healing Practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tholene Sodi --- University of Limpopo, South Africa Olaniyi Bojuwoye --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaCulture influences conceptualizations about illness, health and healthcare. In this article we argue that Western-oriented health care models have limited success when applied to health conditions of people of non-Western cultures and contend that culture is an important factor in... -
South African Muslim Psychologists' Perceptions of Mental Illness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sumaya Laher --- University of the Witwatersrand, aheera Ismail --- University of the Witwatersrand,This study explored perceptions of mental illness in a sample of 10 female Muslim psychologists in a South African city to determine the influences of religion (and Islam specifically) on their understanding of the aetiology and treatment of mental illness... -
Psychological distress in the first year after diagnosis of HIV infection among women in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: BenjaminO OlleyCross-sectional studies on psychological responses associated with an HIV diagnosis are replete, but a paucity of research exists to evaluate the changes and stability of these responses, particularly among black African women. One hundred and five HIV-positive black and coloured... -
Islamic perspectives on HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral treatment: the case of Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Amusa Saheed Balogun --- Department of History, NigeriaSome religious reactions to the HIV epidemic in Africa unwittingly contributed to the expansion of the epidemic in its early years. This was because many religious people regarded the emergence of HIV and AIDS as divine punishment for man's sins... -
HIV/AIDS and mental health research in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Erica Breuer --- , South Africa Landon Myer --- , South Africa Helen Struthers --- , South Africa JohnA Joska --- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, South AfricaThe relationship between mental illness and HIV/AIDS is complex and bidirectional. A significant amount of research has been performed in high-income countries but less is known about HIV and mental health in sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of the review were... -
‘If the doctors see that they don't know how to cure the disease, they say it's AIDS’: How older women in rural South Africa make sense of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Enid Schatz --- Department of Health Sciences/Department of Women's & Gender Studies, 535 Clark Hall, Leah Gilbert --- Department of Sociology, South Africa Courtney McDonald --- Department of Psychology and Sociology, USASouth Africa, like other sub-Saharan African countries, is in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Older women, here defined as aged 60 years and older, while at lower risk of infection than those aged 20–50, are amongst those deeply ‘affected’... -
The phenomenology of bodily care: caregivers' experiences with AIDS patients before antiretroviral therapies in Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: MokhantšoG MakoaeThis study provides an account of caregivers' experiences with the bodily care of AIDS patients before antiretroviral therapies were available in the public health sector in Lesotho. It describes the mechanisms through which the body may become a stressor in... -
A survey of corticosteroid use for the management of septic shock
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: K Govender --- Department of Anaesthetics, RN Rodseth --- Perioperative Research Group, Department of Anaesthetics,Background: Critical illness is associated with pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction, and may cause adrenal insufficiency that manifests as septic shock that is poorly responsive to fluid or inotropic therapy. Administering a low-dose corticosteroid to these patients results in faster shock resolution,... -
Time to face the book?: "Unfriending" IV fluids. Where are we currently with fluid administration in anaesthesia and critical care?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Z Farina --- Anaesthesia, -
Bouncing forward: families living with a type I diabetic child
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: O Brown --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa P Fouché --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Humanities, South Africa M Coetzee --- Uitenhage Provincial Hospital, South AfricaBackground: Despite the multitude of challenges that families living with a child with diabetes face, they have been found to adapt to such an extent that diabetes is viewed as a manageable condition. This study was concerned with the factors... -
The role of Ubuntu in families living with mental illness in the community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Engelbrecht --- School of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, MI Kasiram --- School of Social Work and Community Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal,Background: Families living with mental illness are a vulnerable group in the community. In the African culture, it is accepted that families are embedded safely in a community. In accordance with the principles of Ubuntu, people with mental illness should... -
Chronic fatigue syndrome: diagnosis and treatment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: A Revelas --- Pathology Department, E Baltaretsou --- Cardiology Department, GreeceChronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) refers to marked and prolonged fatigue, for which no indentifiable cause can be found. Despite the presence of extensive symptoms, diagnosis is made when there is profound fatigue, lasting for a duration of six months, or... -
Depression as a Creative Illness: A South African Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Humphrey Ngcobo --- University of Zululand, South Africa Stephen Edwards --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThis case study presents a cultural perspective to supporting health and wellbeing in a young South African adult with depression and unresolved paternity issues. Issues around cultural identity appeared to influence the experience of depression and addressing the identifying aspects... -
Health care practitioners' perceptions of public mental health care in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Dalena van Rooyen --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Kegan Topper --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, David Morton --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Joanitha Strümpher --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Isabell Schierenbeck --- University of Gothenburg, Lena Andersson --- University of Gothenburg,This qualitative study explored the perceptions of health care practitioners (HCPs) concerning public mental health care in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Data were collected from thirteen purposively selected HCPs using in-depth unstructured interviews (males = 6, females = 7). Data were... -
Reflections on the illness experience of a family physician
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Rachel Schaefer --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa Louis Jenkins --- Department of Family Medicine, South AfricaTuberculosis is such a part of our everyday lives that I have never stopped to consider the illness experience regularly lived by our patients. As a seasoned family physician in public service, I have initiated hundreds of patients on tuberculosis... -
The effect of an automated integrated management of childhood illness guideline on the training of professional nurses in the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Hilary Rhode --- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, South Africa Bob Mash --- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, South AfricaBackground: Reducing under-five mortality rates is a global priority. Although under-five mortality has decreased in South Africa, it is still unacceptably high. The implementation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) guideline is a key World Health Organization intervention... -
Performing illness and health: the humanistic value of cancer narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Maheshvari Naidu --- School of Social Sciences (Anthropology), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaCancer is a potent example of a disease that grips and plays out on the body in ways that are both visceral and visual. This paper explores issues of disease and disorder, functioning and malfunctioning in bodies marked by cancer... -
Integration of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) and HIV/AIDS and mental health care through the involvement of chronically ill patients using empowerment evaluation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Claire van Deventer --- Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, South AfricaBackground: The emphasis in health care in South Africa is gradually shifting to acknowledge the different roles patients have regarding their own care. There is, however, very little evidence of this practice and of related practical outcomes. -
The relationship between collective action and serious illness in western Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jane K Njuguna --- Save The Children, USA Andrew M Muriuki --- Save The Children, USABy 2012 HIV had infected about 1.6 million Kenyans and an estimated 58 000 had died due to HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS rates in western Kenya are disproportionately high compared to the rate in Kenya as a whole. This study aimed to... -
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: children's reflections on living in Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Efua Prah --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaThis paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows that solutions to illness and health problems held by low-income populations... -
Complications relating to enteral and parenteral nutrition in trauma patients: a retrospective study at a level one trauma centre in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: C. Aaben --- Clintec, Sweden F. Hammarqvist --- Clintec, Sweden T. Mabesa --- Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, South Africa Tc Hardcastle --- Department of Surgery,Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare the incidence of complications in patients receiving enteral and parenteral nutrition (PN), and review how the early initiation of enteral feeding and early achievement of caloric goal would affect the incidence... -
Cannabis and mental illness in adolescents: a review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Saeeda Paruk --- Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Jonathan K Burns --- Department of Psychiatry, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South AfricaThis article reviews the literature on the association between cannabis exposure and mental illness in adolescents and provides the clinician with an evidence base to address cannabis use with teenagers. Traditionally cannabis was considered a benign recreational drug with low... -
Clinical correlates of suicidality among individuals with HIV infection and AIDS disease in Mbarara, Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Godfrey Zari Rukundo --- Department of Psychiatry, Uganda Eugene Kinyanda --- Department of Psychiatry, Uganda Brian Mishara --- Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia and Psychology Department, CanadaThe association between suicidality and HIV/AIDS has been demonstrated for three decades, but little is know about risk factors that can help understand this association and help identify who is most at risk. Few research studies have been conducted in... -
Morbidity and nutrition status of rural drug-naïve Kenyan women living with HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Charlotte G Neumann --- David Geffen School of Medicine, USA Winstone Nyandiko --- USAID – Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Partnership, Kenya Abraham Siika --- USAID – Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Partnership, Kenya Natalie Drorbaugh --- Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, USA Goleen Samari --- Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, USA Grace Ettyang --- School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Kenya Judith A Ernst --- Indiana University School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, USAThis paper describes morbidity in a group of HIV-positive drug-naïve rural women in western Kenya. A total of 226 drug-naïve HIV-positive women were evaluated for baseline morbidity, immune function, and anthropometry before a food-based nutrition intervention. Kenyan nurses visited women... -
Coping strategies of mother carers of children living with chronic illness and disease in a rural South African community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tholene Sodi --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Bontle Kgopa --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe present study explored the coping strategies used by mother carers of children living with chronic illness and disease (CID) in a rural South African community. Ten mothers (age range = 30 to 56 years) were selected through snowball sampling... -
Cultural conceptions of a bereavement-related illness in a South African indigenous community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mpsanyana W. Makgahlela --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Tholene Sodi --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored cultural conceptions of a bereavement-related illness among elderly (aged 34–85yrs) Northern Sotho-speaking people in Limpopo province. The participants (n = 14, females = 50%, mean age = 59 years, SD: 13.7 years) were purposively selected and interviewed... -
A review of microbial hazards associated with meat processing in butcheries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: L. B. Shilenge --- Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Health, South Africa K. Shale --- Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Health, South Africa T. Matodzi --- Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Health, South Africa F. Machete --- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, South Africa C. Tshelane --- Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Health, South AfricaMeat is highly nutritional and rich in proteins, which makes it a good substrate for possible microbial growth. As a result, in its raw state, meat is easily susceptible to colonization by microorganisms. This study describes the possible sources of... -
Depression, anxiety symptoms and substance use amongst sex workers attending a non-governmental organisation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: V Poliah --- Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, South Africa S Paruk --- Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, South AfricaBackground: Sex work is a high-risk occupation for mental health problems as sex workers are vulnerable to high rates of violence, sexual coercion, stigma and HIV. -
Incidence and hospital mortality of vascular surgery patients with perioperative myocardial infarction (PMI) or myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: T Kisten --- Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, South Africa BM Biccard --- Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, South AfricaBackground: Perioperative myocardial infarction (PMI) and prognostically relevant myocardial injury following non-cardiac surgery (MINS) increases perioperative mortality. Studies in vascular patients show an increased incidence and mortality from PMI. However, there remains limited data on the relative prognostic importance of... -
“Doing” diabetes: the unobtrusive presence of plants
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hameedah Parker --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaThis article investigates the “knowing” and “doing” (through a material semiotic approach) of diabetes. Practices of treatment and healing give insight into how this chronic medical condition is “done” in clinics and in homes, by clinic staff and patients in... -
Therapeutic powers of medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kavango, Namibia, for mental illness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael Murundu Shirungu --- Academic Affairs, Namibia Ahmad Cheikhyoussef --- Multidisciplinary Research Centre, Science and Technology Division, NamibiaThis paper examines the position, usage and healing power of medicinal plants in the treatment of mental illness in two regions in the Kavango, Namibia. It focuses in particular on three common, locally identified mental disorders, namely nyambi, kasenge, and... -
Care, contagion and the good mother: narratives of motherhood, tuberculosis and healing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ziyanda Majombozi --- School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, South AfricaSouth Africa is reported as one of the countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB). In response to the epidemic, the country’s national Department of Health attempted to improve access to health care and TB treatment with a variety... -
TB/HIV risk factors identified from a General Household Survey of South Africa in 2006
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Sathiya Susuman Appunni --- , , South Africa Renette Blignaut --- , , South Africa Siaka Lougue --- , , South AfricaThe level of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB) as well as the co-infection TB/HIV in South Africa is among the highest in the world. TB is curable while HIV is not, yet the combination of both is a growing... -
Teachers’ views and experiences of student mental health and well-being programmes: A systematic review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: John Goodwin --- University College Cork, Ireland Laura Behan --- , Ireland Niamh O’Brien --- South East Technological University, IrelandBackground: In schools, teachers are often tasked with implementing mental health and well-being programmes. However, little is known about teachers’ views on and experiences with implementing these programmes. -
Prevalence of psychotic-like experiences and its predictors among early adolescents from rural areas in Indonesia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Vitriyanti --- Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Nabilah Amalina Rozi --- Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Sherly Saragih Turnip --- Universitas Indonesia, IndonesiaBackground: Psychotic symptoms are present in a wide range of both clinical and non-clinical populations. Psychotic symptoms in adolescents often take the form of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), which are considered a risk factor for numerous serious mental illnesses. Socioeconomic disadvantages... -
Muscle ultrasound: a reliable bedside tool for dietitians to monitor muscle mass
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Lizl Veldsman --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Alison Lupton-Smith --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Guy A Richards --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Renée Blaauw --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa
