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The facilitation of participatory research techniques.
(2007)This study engaged in a micro-genetic analysis (Wertsch, 1984) of facilitation in participatory research (PR). The research conducted in this study explored the facilitation process of two facilitators using two participatory ... -
Factors affecting antenatal care utilization in South Sudan : evidence from 2010 South Sudan house survey.
(2015)Maternal mortality in South Sudan was estimated to be as high as 2054 per 100,000 live births, amongst the highest mortality in the world. The utilisations of antenatal care (ANC) services, which provide the opportunity ... -
Factors associated with the severity of long-term reactions to a childhood sexual experience.
(1994)Abstract available in the pdf file. -
Factors influencing antiretroviral compliance in a small group of children between eight and twelve years of age.
(2010)The HIV/AIDS pandemic has implications at every level of social functioning. It affects individuals, families, communities and organisations. The burden of caring for those exposed, affected and infected is vast, but one ... -
Faith-based organisations' response to HIV/AIDS : a pilot study of a Cesa Church.
(2015)“Despite recent advances in its public policies to address HIV and AIDS, South Africa continues to have the largest HIV epidemic of any country in the world” (Keikelame, Murphy, Ringheim,and Woldehanna, 2010). The most ... -
Families in crisis : a comparative hermeneutic study of the impact of cancer and HIV/AIDS on familes.
(2002)This study employed a qualitative hermeneutic methodology to compare and explore the stress faced by families caring for a family member with cancer or HIV/AIDS. Four 'Indian' families, two with a family member with cancer ... -
Families in trauma : the experiences and perceptions of the maternal caregivers of children affected by extrafamilial child sexual abuse.
(2005)Child sexual abuse and its potentially traumatizing consequences, over both the short- and longer term, has been increasingly recognized in the literature as a possible pathway to the development of intra- and interpersonal ... -
Family influences on career decisions by black first-year students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal : a qualitative study.
(2009)This study used a qualitative methodology to investigate black first - year students’ perceptions of their families’ influence in their career decisions. This was motivated by the fact that, post 1994, the number of career ... -
Family structure, adolescent stress and coping.
(1996)Due to the rapid onset of westernization, there is a remarkable change in the life styles and the family structure of the black South African population in favour of smaller and economically manageable families. There ... -
Fathering in current times : a thematic analysis of Botswanan men’s fatherhood experiences.
(2019)There is a clear shortage of studies that explore how fatherhood is constructed and experienced in Botswana. The purpose of this study was, therefore, to explore how Botswanan men construct fatherhood. The philosophical ... -
Female employees' perceptions of work-life balance at a banking institution in the Durban region.
(2013)This study was interested in female bank employees’ perceptions of work life balance at a banking institution in the Durban region. The Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model was used as a theoretical framework to consider the ... -
Female university students' motivations for undergoing voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and the percieved effectiveness of the test on sexual risk behaviour : an exploratory study.
(2009)Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) has been predominantly used for diagnostic purposes and it has been suggested VCT could help reduce the spread of the disease by preventing those who test HIV-negative from contracting ... -
Five isiZulu women living with AIDS : illness, anti-retrovirals, selves and live stories.
(2005)The South African HIV/AIDS epidemic has reached startling proportions in the last decade. Although the disease itself makes no distinction between age, race or gender, for a variety of historical, cultural, biological and ... -
Foundation and intermediate phase educators' knowledge and beliefs about the features, symptoms and diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Attention – Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is described as one of the most researched and most common of all childhood-onset disorders, receiving substantial amounts of attention from researchers, the media and ... -
Fraternal relative deprivation : the cognitive vs affective distinction and protest orientation among Indian South Africans.
(1991)The study examined the differential effect of cognitive and affective fraternal relative deprivation (RD) on protest orientation. The subjects were 120 Indian adults comprising 60 professionals and 60 non-professionals. ... -
From West Street to Dr Pixley KaSeme Street: How contemporary racialised subjectivities are (re)produced in the city of Durban.
(2009)From West Street to Dr Pixley kaSeme Street:1 How contemporary racialised subjectivities are (re)p roduced in the city of Durban This thesis is part of the larger mission to understand and challenge the ongoing reproduction ... -
Gender and parenting : the (re)production and (re)negotiation of gender identity in the context of first time parenting.
(2016)This study set out to investigate the ways in which first‐time parents construct their gender identity as they grapple with a new addition to the family soon after the birth of their first child. Two white middle‐class ... -
Gender differences in the preferred and actual sources of sexual education amongst senior secondary school learners.
(2010)This study investigated whether the current provision of sex education made available through the Life Orientation Curriculum in South African Secondary Schools is directly applicable and relevant to the sexual developmental ... -
Gender role heuristics used by adolescent boys when negotiating sexual practices of a heterosexual nature.
(2009)The aim of this study was to ascertain whether or not South African adolescent boys between the ages of 16 and 18 make use of heuristics when thinking about heterosexual relationships. Currently, some of the greatest ... -
Generational transmission of identity : a study of four women of colour.
(2008)This qualitative study explores the psychological and social processes underlying the issue of generational transmission of coloured identity within the South African contexts of colonialism (pre-apartheid), apartheid ...