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Evidence-Based Behavioral Interventions to Improve the Double-Duty Actions Impacting the Dual Burden of Malnutrition: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
No scoping review summarizes evidence‐based behavioral interventions that improve double duty actions to prevent stunting and obesity. Inclusion criteria included articles from 2010 to 2024, behavioral interventions to improve breastfeeding, young child nutrition, and antenatal care, and were set in sub‐Saharan Africa or Asia.
Hearst MO, Weinfurter E, Norman L, Normile CA, Mekonnen H, Laska MN.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Identifying Indigenous People's Grieving and Funeral Practices as Components for Establishing a Grief Support Framework: An Integrative Literature Review. [PDF]

J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs
ABSTRACT Introduction Grieving and funeral practices form an integral component of the culture of indigenous people. Although studies on specific indigenous grief support frameworks could not be found, the authors did find certain studies on the grieving and funeral practices of indigenous people.
Felix R, du Plessis E, Jacobs I.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Early Emerging Gradients in Children's Eye Movement Times Across Levels of Household Resources. [PDF]

Dev Sci
ABSTRACT Studies in low‐resource settings suggest that multiple aspects of early childhood development are sensitive to the relative poverty of a child's environment. We examined whether direct, quantitative measures of early developing cognitive functions show a similar association with relative poverty.
Leppänen JM, Pyykkö J, Evans D, Coetzee L, Fink G, Yousafzai AK, Hamer DH, Parkerson D, Rockers PC.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A Comparative Study of Risk Factors for Falls in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Patients and Community-Dwelling Older Adults. [PDF]

Musculoskeletal Care
ABSTRACT Objectives Falls in older adults are a public health concern, yet little is known about falls in adults with hip or knee total joint arthroplasty (TJA) who may be at a higher risk than the general population. The study objectives were to compare the number of fallers and fear of falling in TJA patients to age and sex matched community controls,
Chen SK, Voaklander D, Jhangri GS, Jones CA.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Epilepsy in rural South Africa: Patient experiences and healthcare challenges. [PDF]

Epilepsia Open
Abstract Objective This study investigates the prevalent issues of healthcare access and the impact of antiseizure treatments among people with epilepsy (PWE) in rural Limpopo and Mpumalanga, South Africa, where healthcare facilities and affordable treatments are often inadequate.
Makhado L, Maphula A, Ngomba RT, Musekwa OP, Makhado TG, Nemathaga M, Rammela M, Munyadziwa M, Striano P.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A comparative study of the coverage of African journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and CrossRef

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 74, Issue 7, Page 745-758, July 2023., 2023
Abstract This is the first study that evaluated the coverage of journals from Africa in Web of Science, Scopus, and CrossRef. A list of active journals published in each of the 55 African countries was compiled from Ulrich's periodicals directory and African Journals Online (AJOL) website.
Toluwase Victor Asubiaro, Sodiq Onaolapo
wiley   +1 more source

“You Are Essentially Just a Number”: Discourse Elaboration and Devaluation among Natural Science Students

Education Research International, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
This article analyzes first‐year natural science students’ experiences of discourse and devaluation as new members of the Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty at the University of Pretoria (UP). This study aims to highlight students’ perspectives on navigating digital learning during COVID‐19.
Oscar Eybers, Emma Paulet, Natasha van der Schyff, Enrique Palou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Rural Women’s Perspectives on Associated Factors to Anaemia During Pregnancy in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: A Qualitative Approach

Anemia, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Introduction Pregnancy‐related anaemia is associated with high maternal, foetal, and infant morbidity and mortality in rural communities where access to resources for healthcare may be limited. Comprehending the perceptions of rural women concerning the contributing factors to anaemia is essential.
Present Treasure Mathebula, Thivhulawi Malwela, Maria Sonto Maputle, Mihnea-Alexandru Găman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language Teaching in Content Subjects: Post Initial Teacher Education Narratives of South African Beginner Teachers

TESOL Journal, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examined how beginner teachers integrate language teaching into content subjects after their initial teacher education (ITE). Grounded in a blend of pedagogical theories, sociocultural perspectives, and reflective practice frameworks, it examined the experiences of 10 participants from a previous 2021 study when they were pre ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic review of the magnitude and case fatality ratio for severe maternal morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa between 1995 and 2010 [PDF]

, 2011
Background Analysis of severe maternal morbidity (maternal near misses) provides information on the quality of care. We assessed the prevalence/incidence of maternal near miss, maternal mortality and case fatality ratio through systematic review of ...
Dan K Kaye, Othman Kakaire, Michael O Osinde   +2 more
core   +1 more source