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Knowledge, attitudes and health seeking behaviour of university students towards tuberculosis: a case study of UKZN Howard College.
(2020)In 2015, South Africa recorded an alarming TB incidence cases of 454 000, having 834 cases per 100 000, which accounted for 60% of the global TB burden. A shift from this trend requires the understanding of the knowledge, ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of both the community and traditional healers with regard to diagnosis and treatment of malaria in KwaZulu Natal.
(2000)This study aimed at investigating the knowledge, perceptions and attitudes of both the community and traditional healers with regard to the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in KwaZulu Natal with special reference to Ndumu ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of medical male circumcision as an HIV prevention procedure by white and Indian male students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Howard College.
(2014)This study establishes the knowledge, perceptions and attitudes of white and Indian male students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) Howard College on Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) as an HIV prevention procedure. ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of pharmacy and nursing students towards male circumcision and HIV in a KwaZulu-Natal University, South Africa.
(AOSIS, 2011)Background: Male circumcision is currently being promoted in South Africa as a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention method. Effective implementation requires that healthcare providers should believe in the procedure’s ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning oral health care among undergraduate students in the Life Sciences Department at the Central University of Technology, Free State.
(2020)Background Problems with oral health can, in many ways, affect the quality of life. Bad oral health can prevent positive feelings from being expressed by students, influencing their social experiences and how they feel ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of community pharmacists in Harare regarding the reporting of adverse drug reactions.
(2017)Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) cause considerable morbidity which contributes significantly to health expenditure. Worldwide, there is under-reporting of ADRs by healthcare workers and Zimbabwe is no exception. In Zimbabwe, ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of exit-level Health Sciences students at a selected University in Durban, South Africa, towards the consumption of sugar-containing beverages following the introduction of the Sugar Tax in South Africa.
(2021)Introduction South Africa has the highest prevalence of lifestyle-related diseases, such as diabetes, dental caries, and obesity-related diseases. Many of these diseases are expensive and difficult to treat and place a ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of mildly mentally retarded adolescents in relation to HIV/AIDS.
(2001)The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and sexual practices of mildly mentally retarded (MMR) adolescents with regard to HIV/AIDS. The 3 main objectives, were: 1) examining what MMR adolescents ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of plyometrics among high school sports coaches in Harare province Zimbabwe.
(2018)Strength and conditioning is an important component of athletic success. However, in an African context, strength and conditioning practices are often overlooked. For coaches to effectively implement strength and conditioning ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of veterinarians on antibiotic use, resistance and its containment in South Africa.
(2021)The inappropriate use of antibiotics in the veterinary sector has led to antibiotic resistance (ABR), which negatively impacts animal health and welfare and indirectly on human health. Understanding the knowledge, ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and sexual behaviours regarding HIV/AIDS among adolescents at a rural secondary school in the Eastern Cape.
(2004)AIDS is a syndrome that affects millions of South Africans. Adolescents have been regarded as a potential high-risk group with regard to HIV infection due to their increased sexual activity. Changing behaviour, even that ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of Emergency Care Practitioners to victims of domestic violence in the Western Cape.
(2006)PURPOSE. Domestic violence has a significant prevalence in the world, and certainly in South Africa, yet Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP) training and practice does not have any particular focus on domestic violence ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare workers about healthy lifestyles : a study in an urban-based district hospital in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2008)Background: There is global concern about the impact of lifestyle related diseases which have been on a steady increase in recent years. Poor nutrition, reduced physical activity and cigarette smoking have been documented ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and readiness of community pharmacists practising in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal to the National Health Insurance in South Africa.
(2016)Changes in the South African healthcare environment are well under way in preparation for the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme. The successful implementation of the NHI will result in universal health ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, risk perception and condom use among married men and women in Ntuzuma and Kwadumisa, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2003)One of the greatest and unresolved challenges that faces mankind today is HIV/AIDS and the effects that it has on people as well as society as a whole. South Africa is one of the countries worst affected by HIV/AIDS, with ... -
Knowledge-based strategies as a competitive advantage in the fast moving consumer goods industry : a case study of Adcock Ingram Homecare.
(2003)A qualitative exploratory research on knowledge management was conducted using Adcock Ingram Homecare as a case study. Adcock Ingram Homecare trades in the fast moving consumer goods industry, an industry where consumer ... -
A knowledge-based system for automated discovery of ecological interactions in flower-visiting data.
(2017)Studies on the community ecology of flower-visiting insects, which can be inferred to pollinate flowers, are important in agriculture and nature conservation. Many scientific observations of flower-visiting insects are ... -
Knowledge-directed intelligent information retrieval for research funding.
(2001)Researchers have always found difficulty in attaining funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) for new research interests. The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the promise of improving the matching ... -
Knowledge-sharing practices of legal professionals at the Gauteng justice centres of the legal aid board.
(2009)The purpose of the research was to investigate the knowledge-sharing practices of legal professionals at the Gauteng Justice Centres of the Legal Aid Board (LAB). The rationale for the study was based on the premise that ... -
Kof' abantu, kosal' izibongo?: contested histories of Shaka, Phungashe and Zwide in izibongo and izithakazelo.
(2004)In this dissertation, I argue that there is a pressing need in post-apartheid KwaZulu-Natal to re-assess the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century histories of the region from the perspectives of people whose ancestry was ...