J. Aluko, Olayinka Abolore Onasoga, R. R. Marie Modeste, O. Ani
Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related death for women worldwide. Breast self-examination (BSE) is an essential, low-cost, and simple tool for detecting breast cancer early. Employing the idea of ‘charity begins at home’ by involving student nurses in teaching BSE to relatives will improve early detection.Aim: To assess nursing students’ practice and willingness to teach BSE to their relatives.Setting: A college of nursing and midwifery in one state under North-Central Nigeria.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was employed. Through incidental sampling technique 197 respondents were selected from the first to the third year. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential analyses, with a p-value of 0.05 were conducted.Results: Respondents indicated where they learned about BSE. There were 98.5% respondents who had heard about BSE, and 89.8% of them had good practice of BSE. However, a quarter did not teach BSE to relatives. There were no statistically significant associations noted.Conclusion: Most of the nursing students were aware of BSE and knew how to perform it, although a quarter did not teach BSE to their relatives. Therefore, it may be necessary to sensitise nurses to cultivate the habit of teaching BSE to relatives and women in the community.Contribution: It is crucial to provide nurses with the skills and knowledge required to carry out BSE effectively, as well as teach women how to perform it on themselves, to improve breast cancer detection rates in Nigeria.
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Lizwe C. Muza, C. Egenasi, Wilhelm J. Steinberg, Moa Benedict, T. Habib, Ferdinand Mampuya, C. van Rooyen
Background: Clinicians are crucial in encouraging smokers to quit through behavioural or pharmacological smoking cessation interventions. Smokers quit better with professional help. The level of healthcare providers’ (HCPs) knowledge, attitudes and counselling skills related to effective smoking cessation support in the study area remains uncertain.Aim: The study aimed to determine HCPs’ knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) on smoking cessation intervention strategies in the Sol Plaatje district, Northern Cape.Setting: Sol Plaatje’s 13 district municipality clinics, Kimberley, Northern Cape.Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional analytical study involving healthcare workers in the above setting.Results: A total of 165 HCPs, including medical officers, professional nurses, enrolled nurses and assistant-enrolled nurses working in primary healthcare clinics, were invited to participate in the study, with 156 completing the questionnaires. About 53.9% had no knowledge of South African tobacco smoking cessation guidelines, while 87.2% knew the importance of counselling patients about smoking and its impact on quitting. The majority of them did not know the medicines recommended for tobacco treatment in South Africa. About 89.7% expressed that smoking cessation counselling is an important part of their jobs. However, less than half indicated that they make follow-up arrangements for those attempting to quit.Conclusion: The study revealed gaps in KAP regarding smoking cessation among the respondents, necessitating the need for continuing education on the existing smoking cessation guidelines among these HCPs.Contribution: The results of this study will help to improve smoking cessation intervention knowledge among health providers.
背景：临床医生在鼓励吸烟者通过行为或药物戒烟干预戒烟方面起着至关重要的作用。在专业人士的帮助下，吸烟者的戒烟效果更好。目的：本研究旨在确定北开普省索尔普拉杰地区医疗服务提供者（HCPs）在戒烟干预策略方面的知识、态度和咨询技能水平：地点：北开普省金伯利市 Sol Plaatje 的 13 个区市政诊所：方法：描述性横断面分析研究，涉及上述环境中的医护人员：共有 165 名医护人员（包括在初级保健诊所工作的医务人员、专业护士、注册护士和助理注册护士）应邀参加了研究，其中 156 人填写了调查问卷。约53.9%的人对南非戒烟指南一无所知，87.2%的人知道向患者提供吸烟咨询的重要性及其对戒烟的影响。大多数人不知道南非推荐用于烟草治疗的药物。约 89.7% 的人表示戒烟咨询是他们工作的重要组成部分。然而，只有不到一半的人表示他们会为试图戒烟的人做出后续安排：这项研究揭示了受访者在戒烟 KAP 方面存在的差距，因此有必要对这些高级保健人员进行有关现有戒烟指南的继续教育：贡献：本研究的结果将有助于提高医疗服务提供者的戒烟干预知识。
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Angelina Zhangazha, D. Kaura, Anneline E. Robertson
Background: Informational continuity (IC) is one of the four approaches that enables integrated people-centered health services. IC enables the availability of all health and psychosocial information of the pregnant women at all health encounters. World Health Organization (WHO) recognised that ineffective IC results in fragmented health care and duplication of services. Hence, IC may assist in the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality.Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) with IC during the antenatal periodSetting: Three primary healthcare centers in Maseru district, Lesotho.Methods: A qualitative descriptive phenomenological design was used with purposive sampling to choose nine participants.Results: Four themes emerged; Theme one: SBAs and pregnant women information communication, theme two: Information communication between the SBAs, theme three: information collection during ANC and theme four: guidelines used during ANC to standardise care. Several challenges regarding information communication form the sources of information, transition of information, information between caregivers and women which demonstrated the frustration between the women and the SBAs during ANC leading to ineffective care coordination.Conclusion: Enabling IC during ANC enables effective data collection from the sources of information, transition of information during care giving within and between health facilities.Contribution: Effective informational continuity enables effective care coordination in ANC in Lesotho.
{"title":"Informational continuity by skilled birth attendants during antenatal care in Lesotho","authors":"Angelina Zhangazha, D. Kaura, Anneline E. Robertson","doi":"10.4102/hsag.v29i0.2403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v29i0.2403","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Informational continuity (IC) is one of the four approaches that enables integrated people-centered health services. IC enables the availability of all health and psychosocial information of the pregnant women at all health encounters. World Health Organization (WHO) recognised that ineffective IC results in fragmented health care and duplication of services. Hence, IC may assist in the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality.Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of skilled birth attendants (SBAs) with IC during the antenatal periodSetting: Three primary healthcare centers in Maseru district, Lesotho.Methods: A qualitative descriptive phenomenological design was used with purposive sampling to choose nine participants.Results: Four themes emerged; Theme one: SBAs and pregnant women information communication, theme two: Information communication between the SBAs, theme three: information collection during ANC and theme four: guidelines used during ANC to standardise care. Several challenges regarding information communication form the sources of information, transition of information, information between caregivers and women which demonstrated the frustration between the women and the SBAs during ANC leading to ineffective care coordination.Conclusion: Enabling IC during ANC enables effective data collection from the sources of information, transition of information during care giving within and between health facilities.Contribution: Effective informational continuity enables effective care coordination in ANC in Lesotho.","PeriodicalId":507981,"journal":{"name":"Health SA Gesondheid","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139609556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Background: First-year college student’s smooth transition and academic success influenced by academic help-seeking behaviour. Academic help-seeking behaviour is largely affected by many factors, including demographic factors, self-esteem and the use of sources for academic learning.Aim: The study investigated academic help-seeking behaviour and barriers among first-year college nursing students.Setting: The study was conducted at a nursing college in the Western Cape province of South Africa.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive survey design with a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 130 first year nursing college students. Descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis were computed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS).Results: More than 77.7% used course materials and books to help with academic learning, 50% of students sought help from their teachers. Only 24.6% and 17.7% of students used YouTube and computers respectively. In all items measured help-seeking is not a threat to self-esteem, teachers and parents did not have unrealistic expectations of their academic performance. Language is significantly associated with (p 0.001) academic help-seeking behaviour.Conclusion: Most students mainly used informal sources for academic learning. Help-seeking was not a threat to self-esteem. The language barrier is significantly associated with academic help-seeking behaviour. The nursing college should provide a coordinated academic language support, academic consultation and counselling services for academically stressed first-year nursing students.Contribution: The findings highlighted language as a barrier to academic help-seeking. The study provides insight to strengthen the language and academic support for academic learning for first year nursing students.
{"title":"Academic help-seeking behaviour and barriers among college nursing students","authors":"M. Bimerew, John P. Arendse","doi":"10.4102/hsag.v29i0.2425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v29i0.2425","url":null,"abstract":"Background: First-year college student’s smooth transition and academic success influenced by academic help-seeking behaviour. Academic help-seeking behaviour is largely affected by many factors, including demographic factors, self-esteem and the use of sources for academic learning.Aim: The study investigated academic help-seeking behaviour and barriers among first-year college nursing students.Setting: The study was conducted at a nursing college in the Western Cape province of South Africa.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive survey design with a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 130 first year nursing college students. Descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis were computed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS).Results: More than 77.7% used course materials and books to help with academic learning, 50% of students sought help from their teachers. Only 24.6% and 17.7% of students used YouTube and computers respectively. In all items measured help-seeking is not a threat to self-esteem, teachers and parents did not have unrealistic expectations of their academic performance. Language is significantly associated with (p 0.001) academic help-seeking behaviour.Conclusion: Most students mainly used informal sources for academic learning. Help-seeking was not a threat to self-esteem. The language barrier is significantly associated with academic help-seeking behaviour. The nursing college should provide a coordinated academic language support, academic consultation and counselling services for academically stressed first-year nursing students.Contribution: The findings highlighted language as a barrier to academic help-seeking. The study provides insight to strengthen the language and academic support for academic learning for first year nursing students.","PeriodicalId":507981,"journal":{"name":"Health SA Gesondheid","volume":"121 41","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139615930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Egenasi, Moa Benedict, A. Adefuye, Lynda U. Madu
Background: South Africa has one of the highest incidences of rape globally. Understanding the epidemiological pattern of rape is needed to inform the design of effective intervention programmes for rape prevention and management of alleged rape cases.Aims: To investigate important epidemiological patterns associated with rape in Kimberly, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.Setting: The Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital (RMSH) forensic unit.Methods: A descriptive, retrospective cross-sectional clinical audit of rape cases.Results: The majority (93.3%) of the alleged rape victims were women, with a mean age (SD) of 21.6 years (11.3); the male population made up 6.7% of the cases, with a mean age (SD) of 10.5 years (6.9). The highest incidence of alleged rape in the male population was seen in the age group ≤ 16 years (81.8%) and for women 17–30 years (50.3%). Most of the incidents occurred at the perpetrators’ homes (42.7%); on the days Fridays (14.6%), Saturdays (29.9%) and Sundays (23.2%); at night up to midnight 20:00–23:59 (32.9%) (p = 0.01) and involved threats of violence (55.5%). The majority (56.0%) of the perpetrators were known to the victims.Conclusion: Important information about the victims and circumstances in which rape occurs as reported herein can be used to inform the design of effective intervention programmes for sexual crime prevention and management in Kimberly, South Africa.Contribution: This study helped to advance knowledge and understanding of the epidemiological pattern associated with rape in Kimberley, Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
{"title":"Epidemiological pattern of rape cases managed at a regional hospital in South Africa","authors":"C. Egenasi, Moa Benedict, A. Adefuye, Lynda U. Madu","doi":"10.4102/hsag.v29i0.2434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v29i0.2434","url":null,"abstract":"Background: South Africa has one of the highest incidences of rape globally. Understanding the epidemiological pattern of rape is needed to inform the design of effective intervention programmes for rape prevention and management of alleged rape cases.Aims: To investigate important epidemiological patterns associated with rape in Kimberly, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.Setting: The Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital (RMSH) forensic unit.Methods: A descriptive, retrospective cross-sectional clinical audit of rape cases.Results: The majority (93.3%) of the alleged rape victims were women, with a mean age (SD) of 21.6 years (11.3); the male population made up 6.7% of the cases, with a mean age (SD) of 10.5 years (6.9). The highest incidence of alleged rape in the male population was seen in the age group ≤ 16 years (81.8%) and for women 17–30 years (50.3%). Most of the incidents occurred at the perpetrators’ homes (42.7%); on the days Fridays (14.6%), Saturdays (29.9%) and Sundays (23.2%); at night up to midnight 20:00–23:59 (32.9%) (p = 0.01) and involved threats of violence (55.5%). The majority (56.0%) of the perpetrators were known to the victims.Conclusion: Important information about the victims and circumstances in which rape occurs as reported herein can be used to inform the design of effective intervention programmes for sexual crime prevention and management in Kimberly, South Africa.Contribution: This study helped to advance knowledge and understanding of the epidemiological pattern associated with rape in Kimberley, Northern Cape Province of South Africa.","PeriodicalId":507981,"journal":{"name":"Health SA Gesondheid","volume":" 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139621531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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