• Assessment of reliability and validity of a nursing tool used to examine knowledge, attitude, and practices of professional nurses in writing nursing care plans at a teaching hospital in Gauteng Province, South Africa 

  Lodi, Louisa M.; Randa, Moreoagae B.; Ntuli, Samuel T.; Matlala, Sogo F. (Bentham Science Publisher, 2023)

  Background: A nursing care plan is a guideline developed for a patient's needs. A well-documented care plan provides holistic patient-centred care and includes assessing, evaluating, and administering a variety of ...
• Factors associated with COVID-19 inpatient mortality cases within 24 hours in South Africa 

  Mphekgwana, P. M.; Sono-Setati, M. E.; Tshitangano, T. G.; Matlala, S. F.; Ramalivhana, N. J. (SAMJ, 2023)

  Background. African countries with limited healthcare capacity are particularly vulnerable to the novel coronavirus (COVID‑19). The pandemic has left health systems short on resources to safely manage patients and protect ...
• An assessment of traditional birth attendants as an untapped human resource to help sustain the health system in South Africa 

  Matlala, Sogo France (ISDS, 2023)

  The purpose of this study is to explore motivations and experiences of women who became traditional birth attendants in South Africa. The study was designed to clarify some potential advantages of their integration into ...
• Heroic actions by sports personalities, clubs and associations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Matlala, Sogo France (2022)

  This chapter focuses on the philanthropic, educational and socially responsible responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by sports personalities and sporting bodies in the African context. The chapter contributes to knowledge ...
• A health promotion approach to emergency management : effective community engagement strategies from five cases 

  Corbin, J. Hope; Oyene, Ukam Ebe; Manoncourt, Erma; Onya, Hans; Kwamboka, Metrine; Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary; Sørensen, Kristine; Mweemba, Oliver; Barry, Margaret M.; Munodawafa, Davison; Bayugo, Yolanda V.; Huda, Qudsia; Moran, Tomas; Omoleke, Semeeh Akinwale; Spencer-Walters, Dayo; Van den Broucke, Stephan (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Community engagement is crucial for controlling disease outbreak and mitigating natural and industrial disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic has reconfirmed the need to elevate community engagement to build equity, trust and ...
• Association between cardiometabolic health and objectively-measured, free-living sleep parameters : a pilot study in a rural African setting 

  Cook, Ian.; Mohlabe, Matlawa; Makgopa, Herbert Mabalane (BMC Public Health, 2021)

  Objectives: To investigate the relationship between objectively-measured, free-living sleep quantity and quality, and cardiometabolic health, in a rural African setting in 139 adults (≥40 years, female: n = 99, male: n = ...
• Transitioning to a life with disability in rural South Africa : a qualitative study 

  Sadiki, M. Christinah; Watermeyer, Brian; Abrahams, Nina T. (AOSIS, 2021)

  Background: Adjustment to the onset of disability has complex reverberations relating to both socially engendered disadvantage and the realities of functional limitation. Pre-existing ways of understanding disability can ...
• Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of tobacco and alcohol use in four sub-Saharan African countries: a cross-sectional study of middle-aged adults 

  Boua, Palwende Romuald; Soo, Cassandra Claire; Debpuur, Cornelius; Maposa, Innocent; Nkoana, Shai; Mohamed, Shukri F.; Choma, Solomon; Oduro, Abraham; Asiki, Gershim; Micklesfield, Lisa K.; Gómez-Olivé, Francesc Xavier; Sorgho, Hermann; Mall, Sumaya; Ramsay, Michèle (BMC Public Health, 2021)

  Background: Substance misuse is a global public health problem. In addition to social and economic concerns, consumption of tobacco and alcohol is associated with susceptibility to cardiovascular, respiratory, and ...
• Provision of care to the people with HIV : voices of professional nurses in the public hospitals of Limpopo Province, South Africa 

  Moshidi, Maria Lebeko; Malema, Rambelani Nancy; Muthelo, Livhuwani; Mothiba, Tebogo Maria (MDIP, 2021)

  The battle against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic are still raging in South Africa (SA) despite all the preventive strategies implemented via the five-year ...
• Outpatients’ satisfaction with healthcare services received at a district hospital in Botswana 

  Khuwa, Zibo K.; Matlala, Sogo F.; Ntuli, Thembelihle S. (2022)

  SUMMARY Objectives: To investigate patient satisfaction regarding healthcare services at a district hospital. The research ques-tion was: what is the level of patient satisfaction regarding service delivery? Design: An ...
• “They shouted at me to discontinue exclusive breastfeeding”: narratives of mothers in Limpopo Province of South Africa as they grabble with exclusive breastfeeding 

  Maponya, Nyabana Martha; Matlala, Sogo France (Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science, 2022)

  Objective: Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of an infant’s life is an internationally recognised practice that promotes maternal and child health. Mothers and theirinfantsreap health and socioeconomic ...
• Risk factors for hypertension in hospitalised patient mortality with laboratory‐confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 : a population‐based study in Limpopo Province, South Africa 

  Mphekgwana, Peter M.; Matlala, Sogo F.; Tshitangano, Takalani G.; Ramalivhana, Naledzani J.; Sono-Setati, Musa E. (MDPI, 2022)

  The coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic has recently impacted and destabilised the global community. The healthcare systems of many countries have been reported to be partially or entirely interrupted. More than half ...
• Health system- and patient-related factors associated with COVID-19 mortality among hospitalized patients in Limpopo Province of South Africa’s public hospitals 

  Sono-Setati, Musa E.; Mphekgwana, Peter M.; Mabila, Linneth N.; Mbombi, Masenyani O.; Muthelo, Livhuwani; Matlala, Sogo F.; Tshitangano, Takalani G.; Ramalivhana, Naledzani J. (MDPI, 2022)

  South Africa has recorded the highest COVID-19 morbidity and mortality compared to other African regions. Several authors have linked the least amount of death in African countries with under-reporting due to poor health ...
• Epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 inpatient deaths during the first and second waves in Limpopo Province, South Africa 

  Tshitangano, Takalani G.; Setati, Musa E.; Mphekgwana, Peter M.; Ramalivhana, Naledzani J.; Matlala, Sogo F. (MDPI, 2022)

  Abstract: More COVID-19 inpatient deaths occurred during the second wave when compared to the first wave in South Africa in both the public and private sectors. This study describes the characteristics of 969 COVID-19 ...
• Determinants of the Limpopo Province of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 : a mixed methods protocol to analyze and share lessons learned 

  Matlala, Sogo F.; Tshitangano, Takalani G.; Setati, Musa E.; Ramalivhana, Naledzani J.; Mphekgwana, Peter M. (2022)

  COVID-19 is a priority health research agenda item in South Africa. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, which requires all countries to ...
• Low oxygen saturation of COVID-19 in patient case fatalities, Limpopo Province, South Africa 

  Mphekgwana, Peter M.; Sono-Setati, Musa E.; Maluleke, Abdul F.; Matlala, Sogo F. (MDPI, 2022)

  On 1 August 2020, South Africa’s Minister of Health announced that more than half of a million coronavirus cases were confirmed in the country. South Africa was by far the hardest-hit country in Africa, accounting for ...
• Occupational accidents at a coal mine Waterberg District in Limpopo Province 

  Dama, Tshimangadzo Joseph (2021)

  The coal mining industry is reported to be the most dangerous workplace in the world. Most of the mine workers working in underground coal mines as well as open cast mines are exposed to occupational accidents which result ...
• Predictors of obesity and cardiometabolic disease risk in South African children 

  Moselakgomo, V.; Van Staden, M. (SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health, 2017)

  Background. Obesity is a major public health problem in developed countries, and is also a growing concern in developing nations. This study assessed the predictors of overweight and obesity in South African (SA) children ...
• A model to facilitate collaborative social support for pregnant students in secondary schools 

  Matlala, Sogo F. (Dovepress, 2017)

  Pregnancy among secondary school students remains a public health problem and is associated with school dropout as well as poor maternal and child health outcomes. Schools in South Africa no longer expel pregnant students ...
• Regional and sex differences in the prevalence and awareness of hypertension : an H3Africa AWI-Gen Study Across 6 Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa 

  Gomez-Olive, F.; Ali, S. (gSCIENCE, 2017)

  Background: There is a high prevalence of hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, yet few large studies exploring hypertension in Africa are available. The actual burden of disease is poorly ...

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