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Key barriers to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment adherence : Experiences of health care workers (HCW) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) clients in the uThukela district of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2018)In the fight against HIV and AIDS, the world managed to put more than 17 million people on anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in 2016. More than three million of the people on ART are in South Africa, and more than one million ... -
Knowledge and perception of health research ethics among health care professionals at Greys hospital Pietermaritzburg – South Africa.
(2016)To explore familiarity and awareness of codes and regulations related to the conduct and practice of research ethics among health care professionals. Furthermore, to establish the level of knowledge of research ethics and ... -
Knowledge of contraceptives, attitudes towards contraceptive use, and perceptions of sexual risk, among university students at a South African university.
(2017)University students form a high-risk group in relation to unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea, hepatitis B, syphilis and HIV/AIDS, due to sexual exploration, unsafe sexual ... -
The knowledge of HIV/AIDS and the sexual attitudes and behaviour of adolescents with learning difficulties/disabilities.
(2008)The focus of this study was to assess the level of knowledge of HIV/AIDS, and to examine the sexual attitudes and behaviour of adolescents with learning difficulties/disabilities. The sample was obtained from a secondary ... -
Knowledge of, and attitudes toward abortion in a sample of secondary school learners : exploring gender and religious differences.
(2011)A number of studies have attempted to describe and explain both the levels of and trend in support for abortion in the adult population and college students, yet there is a gap around abortion attitudes of adolescents. ... -
Kohlbert's theory of moral development : a cross-sectional study of the relationship between social experience and moral reasoning.
(1992)The study was undertaken to assess the relationship between social experience and moral reasoning, and to examine two aspects of Kohlberg's universality claims. The participants were 81 South Africans; comprising 40 Blacks ... -
Lay persons' perceptions of intelligence : students' estimates of their own and their parents' overall and multiple intelligences.
(2013)Intelligence as a psychological construct has received vast attention from professionals and lay persons. The theory of multiple intelligences as a perspective of understanding intelligence has enjoyed extensive research. ... -
Leadership in the Southern African business context : towards an appropriate approach.
(2007)Enormous challenges face the African continent's quest to fulfil her great potential. The success of the African wealth creation project depends to a great extent on the quality of leadership driving this vital undertaking. ... -
Learning and development : an investigation of a neo-Piagetian theory of cognitive growth.
(1985)Within the framework of Pascual-Leone's Theory of Constructive Operators (TCO), 252 Zulu-speaking children in the 7-8 , 9-10 and 11-12 age-groups were tested four times on the FIT RAC 794, a measure of mental capacity or ... -
Learning during turbulent times: an exploration of high academic achievement in undergraduate students during protest action at UKZN.
(2019)#FeesMustFall: the nation-wide movement that spread across South African institutions of higher education, and resulted in what seemed to be an abnormal and turbulent learning environment. It is remarkable that in such ... -
Let's talk about it : an investigation of communicative parameters in sexuality discourse.
(2006)This study investigated communicative parameters in parent-adolescent and peer discussions about sex. While most sexual health interventions rely on communication and the dissemination of information, little research has ... -
Let's talk about sex : "a qualitative investigation into obstacles experienced by trainee psychologists assessing sexual history of a client during the first interview".
(2014)Despite adequate training and sound theoretical knowledge a trainee psychologist faces challenges whilst attempting to gather a vast amount of information from a new client. Sexual health information, although required for ... -
“Let’s talk about sex baby” - A comparative study of parents’ perceptions of parent-child sexuality communication with their adolescent children in rural and urban settings in eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2017)In South Africa, the teenage pregnancy prevalence rate stands at 47 births per 1000 girls per annum for girls aged between 15 and 19 years, as opposed to 15 per 1000 girls in the United Kingdom (UK), and 24 per 1000 girls ... -
Liberated through submission? The Worthy Woman's Conference as a case study of Formenism.
(Indiana University Press, 2010)In this article, Nadar and Potgieter use the Worthy Women’s Conference as a case study, describing and analyzing how this movement creates and maintains what they call the formenist position. Formenism, like masculinism, ... -
The life experiences of adolescent sexual offenders : factors within the family that contribute to offending behaviours.
(2002)This study was conceptualised to explore the life experiences of adolescent sex offenders with the aim of obtaining insight into factors that contributed to their sexually offensive behaviour, especially those factors ... -
The life experiences of children orphaned on account of HIV and AIDS.
(2009)The goal of this study was to explore the experiences of children who were orphaned on account of HIV and AIDS as well as the experiences of their caregivers, thereby improving the knowledge base of practitioners working ... -
Life experiences of unemployed professional refugee women from Rwanda who live in the Durban inner city : working their way out of the vortex.
(2009)Refugees abound the world over due to various factors, such as human rights violations, wars, ethnicity-related problems, political instability and so on. In South Africa, refugees have a high rate of unemployment and no ... -
The life scripts and object relations of adolescents in families and in residential substitute care.
(1988)The aim of this research was to compare the quality of parent- child relationships and child development in a group of 20 adolescents (aged 13-17) who were raised in intact families of origin (Family Group: N1 = 20, x ... -
The link between racial prejudice and racial policy attitudes : a meta-analytic study.
(2006)This meta-analytic study analyses the relationship between racial prejudice and racial policy attitudes. Specifically, it examines the effects of race attitudes (i.e., symbolic racism, oldfashioned racism, racial affect ... -
The literacy of tracking : a comparative analysis of tracking within two Bushman post-hunter communities.
(2010)Vast advances in technology have presented a platform for mediated forms to reach places where it was never before thought possible. Once remote communities can now be more easily accessed and in turn have easier access ...