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Changing demographic trends among South African occupational therapists: 2002 to 2018

Author: Ned, Lieketseng ; Tiwari, Ritika ; Buchanan, Helen ; Van Niekerk, Lana ; Sherry, Kate ; Chikte, Usuf Date: 20 Mar 2020 Abstract Background South Africa’s quadruple burden of disease, coupled with health system challenges and other factors, predicts a high burden of disability within the population. Human Resources for Health policy and planning need to ... Read more c b
Creating supported employment partnerships for people with psychiatric disabilities

Author: Hajwani, Zerina Date: 2008 This study focused on the process of forming partnerships between a supported environment programme and three businesses. A qualitative approach, namely collective case study, was used. Read more
A critical ethnography of young adolescents' occupational choices in a community in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Galvaan, Roshan Date: 2010 This thesis explored the occupational choices of young adolescents in a southern peninsula Cape Town community of Lavender Hill in South Africa. Informed by current research and prior professional and personal experiences with young adolescents ... Read more
Developing appropriate Fetal Alchohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention initiatives within a rural community in South Africa

Author: Cloete, Lizahn Date: 2012 This study focused on women who consumed alcohol during pregnancy. The study population was situated in the West Coast/Winelands, a rural area in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The study was done in a community which is classified ... Read more
Exploring evidence-based practice in Namibia - a co-operative inquiry

Author: Burger, Helga Date: 2012 Since no scientifically obtained information existed on engagement in EBP by Namibian-based occupational therapists, the researcher set out to explore the usefulness and feasibility of evidence-based practice (EBP) for occupational therapists ... Read more
Exploring the impact of rape on women's occupations

Author: Sonnie, Waheeda Date: 2003 This qualitative study, with elements of co-operative enquiry and phenomenology, endeavoured to describe the impact of rape on the occupations of women who have been raped. Data were gathered from participants who were clients at Rape Crisis, ... Read more
The impact of inadequate provision of mobility devices on the lives of physically disabled children in Tembalethu special school in the township of Gugulethu, Cape Town

Author: Gcaza, Siphokazi Date: 2001 In this qualitative study a case study approach was used out to explore and describe the perceptions of children with mobility impairments in Tembalethu Special School related to the effects of inadequate provision of assistive devices on ... Read more
The influences that impact on the work-lives of people with psychiatric disability : an interpretive biography

Author: Van Niekerk, Lana Date: 2004 Incudes bibliographical references. Read more
The live-in domestic workers' experience of occupational engagement

Author: Galvaan, Roshan Date: 2000 Bibliographical references. Read more
Nature and meaning of occupation for young men with tetraplegia living on the Cape Flats

Author: Beeton, Hilary Jane Date: 2000 In this qualitative study, in-depth interviews with three young men with tetraplegia, who have resumed living in their pre-injury environments on the Cape Flats, were used to uncover the meanings they attach to their everyday occupations. The ... Read more
Occupation focused conceptual frameworks

Author: Ramafikeng, Matumo ; Galvaan, Roshan ; Van Niekerk, Lana Date: 17 Sep 2014 Conceptual frameworks are the core concepts of occupational therapy thinking used in practice by occupational therapy students, therapists and scientists. This module is a continuation of what students have covered in second year study ... Read more c b n a
Participation in work: A human rights issue for people with psychiatric disabilities

Author: Van Niekerk, Lana Date: 2008 The article will endeavour to situate discrimination against disabled people in the world of work as a human rights issue. An argument will be made for occupational therapists to give more attention to recent developments in the literature, ... Read more
Strategies occupational therapists employ to facilitate work-related transitions for persons with hand injuries: a study protocol

Author: Uys, Michelle Elizabeth ; Buchanan, Helen ; Van Niekerk, Lana Date: 11 Apr 2019 Introduction Hands make it possible to be employable and productive, to communicate non-verbally and to perform fine motor tasks required in day-to-day activities. Sustaining a hand injury can be detrimental to function including the ability ... Read more c b n
Understanding stress reducing adaptation in the work place

Author: Henshall, Claire Date: 2004 Bibliography: leaves 120-126. Read more