Adult mental health challenges frequently stem from undiagnosed poor mental health earlier in life. With increasing levels of poor adolescent mental health and insufficient health care resources in low- and middle-income countries, mobile mental health may offer expanded service access. Little is known about mobile mental health interventions for adolescents in low- and middle income countries.
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The prevalence of hope, subjective well-being, and psychopathology among trauma survivors at community-based clinics in Gauteng
November 22, 2023
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CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Psychosocial correlates of well-being among people who engage in online health-seeking behaviour
We examined the extent to which neuroticism, health anxiety, social anxiety, and social support predicted well-being in a sample of online users engaging in health-seeking behaviour. We used a cross-sectional online survey to recruit participants who engaged in online health-seeking behaviour. The study included 350 participants who were recruited online using social media platforms such as Reddit and Twitter.
November 22, 2023
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CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa
Kangaroo mother care has been recognized as a credible intervention to improve preterm birth outcomes by the World Health Organization. Kangaroo mother care requires high user engagement and consists of continuous skin-to-skin contact between the mother and infant and exclusive breastfeeding.
November 22, 2023
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CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Computer-based cognitive training for cognitive development of alcohol-exposed children in South Africa: a feasibility randomised control trial
Children exposed to alcohol in utero may suffer from cognitive and physical sequelae. The most impactful damage in terms of daily functioning is to higher order cognitive functions involved in planning and goal-directed behaviour, referred to as executive functions. Cognitive training interventions are used as a remedial tool for executive function deficits but require implementation by professionals.
November 22, 2023
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CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons
In recent years, photo-narrative methods have gained popularity as a feminist decolonial research approach. Located within the broader category of participatory action research, photovoice is committed to the democratisation of the research process.
November 3, 2023
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CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Controlling for inequality in neuropsychological assessment: using Crawford and Howell’s (1998) single-case methodology with norms from demographically homogeneous groups of South Africans
The practice of neuropsychological assessment in South Africa is complicated by the lack of norms that are representative of clients’ educational and linguistic experiences. In an attempt to address this challenge, we argue that Crawford and Howell’s Single-Case Methodology in Neuropsychology is a good option for the neuropsychological investigation of cases that are not well represented by the available norms.
November 3, 2023
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CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Principles of Clinical Ethics and Their Application to Practice
An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained. Informed consent, truth-telling, and confidentiality spring from the principle of autonomy, and each of them is discussed.
March 7, 2024
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CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Teamwork Ethics
Ethical teamwork is dependent on communication, joint decision-making,
collaboration, self-management, and accountability. To assist everyone in practicing virtues and working well internally, teams need codes of ethics and
codes of conduct.
May 6, 2023
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CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Code of Ethics Relating To Transfusion Medicine
The availability of a safe, effective and sufficient supply of blood and blood products (hereafter defined
as ‘blood’) as well as their optimal use for patients, underpins the practice of modern medicine. Blood is
a medical product of human origin and its availability is dependent on the contribution of the donor who gives blood for the benefit of others with no physical benefit to her/himself
March 15, 2023
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CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Blood transfusion, pregnancy and birth
This information is for you if you want to know more about having a blood transfusion when pregnant or shortly after you give birth. It may be helpful if you are a relative or friend of someone who is in this situation.
March 10, 2022
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ETHICS: 1 POINTS