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Parental knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of dental caries and dental sealants as a preventive strategy of dental caries.
Introduction: Children’s oral health care should be a public health priority and parental knowledge, attitudes and perceptions (KAPs) are likely to play a role in achieving and maintaining a desired level of oral health ... -
Participation of nurse leaders in health policy development: an action research approach.
(2016)Introduction All aspects of nursing education, practice and research are influenced by health policy. Proactive participation in the policy arena is key to excellence in clinical practice and education for nursing. Nurses ... -
Participation of Zimbabwean female students in university sports.
(2017)This study sought to establish the factors affecting the participation of female students in university sports and identify the measures that can help to increase the participation of Zimbabwean female students in university ... -
Paternal roles in promoting child well-being: what are the challenges facing paternal involvement in child healthcare in rural South Coast Kenya?
(2015)Introduction While it has long been accepted that mothers play a key role in child health outcomes, the role of the father is less well understood. The proposed study was nested in another study investigating the relationship ... -
Pathogenic effect of Trichomonas vaginalis on various cell lines in vitro.
(2010)Trichomoniasis has been linked to pelvic inflammatory disease, cervical cancer, increased HIV transmission, infertility as well as co-infections with other STIs. In 2002, an association was found with Trichomonas ... -
The pathological aspects of heart failure in the Natal African.
(1967)The aims and objects of this work, as outlined in the introduction, were to a s s e s s the necropsy incidence of deaths due to heart failure in the African in Durban, to a s s e s s the necropsy incidence of the various ... -
Pathways to mental health care in Kwazulu-Natal province South Africa.
(2001)The understanding of the pathways that clients take prior to admission to a mental health institution, is a vital factor in planning to reduce delays in seeking treatment. Studying the pathways may also help in the ... -
Patient's knowledge of diabetes, its ocular complications and management in a private practice population in the Western Cape, South Africa.
(2011)The aim of this study was to determine management regimens and level of knowledge of diabetes and its‟ ocular complications among private patients in a sample of the population of the Western Cape region of South Africa. ... -
Patterns and features of HIV-1 specific CD8+ T-cell responses during acute HIV-1 infection and their association with viral control.
(2015)Evidence suggests that CD8+ T-‐cells play a major role in the control of HIV-‐1 viremia and apply significant immune pressure on HIV-‐1 replication. However, the presence of virus-‐specific ... -
Patterns of contact lens prescribing in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2015)Master of Medical Science in Optometry. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2015. -
Patterns of disclosure : an investigation into the dynamics of disclosure among HIV-positive women in two PMTCT settings in an urban context, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2011)Introduction: Little guidance is given to health professionals over how to deal with HIV disclosure complexities in the biomedical setting. Given the paucity of related research in this context, there is also little ... -
Patterns of utilization of sexual and reproductive health services by secondary school-going adolescents in Gaborone, Botswana, 2012.
(2014)Background: Adolescents in Botswana, especially women, face many sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges including high maternal mortality, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, and unintended ... -
Perceived ethionamide resistance in isoniazid susceptible isolates of mycobacterium tuberculosis.
(2015)In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, resistance to ethionamide (ETH) is usually combined with isoniazid (INH) resistance due to a number of mutations in genes that are involved in the biosynthesis of mycolic acids. ETH resistance ... -
Perceived parental practices related to alcohol use by 16 to 18 year old adolescents in the public high schools in the Emawaleni District of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2009)Introduction: A quantitative cross-sectional study was undertaken to assess whether parenting practices regarding alcohol use (as perceived by 16-18 year old adolescents) are determinants of alcohol use by the ... -
Perceived stress, coping behaviour, and health outcomes among South African undergraduate medical students.
(2003)This empirical study assessed the perceived stressors in medical school environment and psychological outcomes in undergraduate medical students in a non - western sample. The sample consisted of African and Indian ... -
Perceptions around managed health care service delivery in private medical care in the Republic of South Africa.
(2008)Introduction: This study aimed to explore private General Practitioners' perceptions of Managed Health Care CMHC) for health service delivery in the Republic of South Africa (RSA). The specific objectives were to review ... -
Perceptions of and attitudes to the compulsory community service programme for therapists in KwaZulu-Natal, 2005.
(2009)Compulsory community service programmes have been initiated in many countries to recruit health care professionals to provide services in rural and under-served areas. However, the success or failure of the Community ... -
The perceptions of HIV negative pregnant women towards HIV preventative sexual behaviour in one of the regional hospitals in Durban.
(2005)The aim of the study was to explore the perceptions of the HIV negative pregnant women, after their hiv negative results, towards preventive sexual behaviour. Methodology: A qualitative approach was used in exploring the ... -
Perceptions of nursing students, nurse educators and clinicians of the clinical learning environment at selected institutions in Northern Ghana.
(2016)Aim The aim of the study was to describe the perceptions of nursing students, nurse educators and clinicians of the clinical learning environment at selected institutions in northern Ghana, as a ...