• The effects of inpatient suicide on nurses at Weskoppies Hospital : a qualitative study 

  Zola, Nomthandazo; Mtetwa, Thandazile G.; Khamker, Nadira (AOSIS, 2024-05-21)

  BACKGROUND : Inpatient suicide is a serious adverse event in psychiatric wards. Suicide can cause severe trauma to both patients and health professionals, who may develop maladaptation with poor coping skills. Healthcare ...
• Factors associated with long hospitalisation for psychotic disorder patients in an acute ward : tertiary care hospital 

  Paliweni-Zwane, Tshepiso I.; Modisane, Lucas N.; Grobler, Gerhard Paul (AOSIS, 2024-04-23)

  BACKGROUND : The average length of stay is often used to indicate health system efficiency; shorter stays are associated with reduced costs. In South Africa, mental healthcare expenditure is spent on inpatient care. AIM ...
• Comparing the medication costs of treating patients with schizophrenia who use cannabis with those who do not 

  Nowbath, Nikhil; Abdelatif, Nada; Lippi, Gian (AOSIS, 2024-04-15)

  BACKGROUND: Cannabis use is more prevalent among people with schizophrenia than in the general population. This usage detrimentally impacts disease prognosis, contributing to escalated admissions, heightened severity ...
• Validity and reliability of the agentive steadfastness index 

  Vosloo, Cristel; Van Staden, Werdie (Wiley, 2024-06)

  Agentive steadfastness is a hitherto unarticulated and unmeasured construct, although clinicians may have drawn intuitively on it in anticipating clients' prognosis and anticipated responsiveness to adverse events. Following ...
• Ethical principles, challenges and opportunities when conducting genetic counselling for schizophrenia 

  Zingela, Zukiswa; Sokudela, Funeka; Thungana, Yanga; Van Wyk, Stephan (Frontiers Media, 2023-06-21)

  Ethical challenges of genetic counselling for schizophrenia include effective communication of critical scientific information in an easily understood manner by patients and relatives, and the ability to ensure communication ...
• Readmission of adolescent psychiatric patients to a specialised unit in Gauteng, South Africa 

  Brown, Sarah-Anne; Moeketsi, Tshepiso D.; Musekiwa, Alfred; Moodley, Saiendhra Vasudevan (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2023-07-27)

  BACKGROUND : Readmission rates to child and adolescent psychiatric units among the youth have been reported to be increasing. AIM : The study aimed to determine the readmission rate and factors associated with readmission ...
• Factors affecting readmission of adolescent mental healthcare users to a psychiatric hospital 

  Eichstadt, Stephanie A.; Chetty, Shren; Magagula, T.G.; Swart, Xan (AOSIS, 2023-11-15)

  BACKGROUND : Adolescent mental illness is increasing worldwide, leading to more admissions to psychiatric institutions. Many adolescents may require multiple readmissions, which is disruptive to their holistic well-being ...
• Attitudes of medical students regarding legalisation of cannabis and cannabis-education 

  Eiselen, Evan; Naidu, Kalai; Viljoen, Maryn (AOSIS, 2023-11-07)

  BACKGROUND : Recreational and medicinal use of cannabis is topical in the light of more permissive legislation regarding the substance worldwide. AIM : The primary purpose of this study is to determine the attitudes that ...
• Pathophysiological aspects of exposure to dampness-associated indoor mould and mycotoxins : a mini-overview 

  Viljoen, Margaretha; Claassen, Nicolaas (Elsevier, 2023-02)

  Indoor mould growth presents a potential health risk. The aim of this writing is to provide an overview on the pathophysiological aspects of exposure to dampness-associated indoor mould and mycotoxins. The paper briefly ...
• The validity of a therapeutic invigoration task in avolitional schizophrenia outpatients 

  Dlagnekova, Antonia; Van Staden, Werdie (Wiley, 2024-01)

  BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES : Avolition is associated with much morbidity and functional impairment in schizophrenia patients. Vigor may be taken as, in part, the inverse of avolition, but it has not been investigated as a ...
• Twelve weeks of additional fish intake improves the cognition of cognitively intact, resource-limited elderly people : a randomized control trial 

  Kühn, Lizette; MacIntyre, Una Elizabeth; Kotze, Carla; Becker, Piet J.; Wenhold, Friedeburg Anna Maria (Springer, 2022-02)

  INTRODUCTION : Dietary omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may reduce the risk of dementia. Many studies have investigated PUFA supplementation in high-income countries, yet food-based randomized control trials using ...
• Race in health research : considerations for researchers and research ethics committees 

  Van Staden, Werdie; Nienaber, A.; Rossouw, T.; Turner, A.C. (Astrid); Filmalter, Cecilia Jacoba; Nel, Jan Gert; Bapela, S.; Beetge, Mia-Michaela; Blumenthal, Ryan; Castelyn, Camille De Villebois; De Witt-Jordaan, T.W. (Wilma); Dlagnekova, Antonia; Kotze, Carla; Mangwane, S.; Napoles, Lizeka; Somers, R.; Sykes, Leanne M.; Van Zyl, W.B.; Venter, Marietjie; Uys, Andre; Warren, Nichola (South African Medical Association, 2023-04)

  This article provides ethical guidance on using race in health research as a variable or in defining the study population. To this end, a plain, non-exhaustive checklist is provided for researchers and research ethics ...
• Factors associated with longer hospital admission in elderly patients with major neurocognitive disorder 

  Steenkamp, Tarina; Mazibuko, Paslius S.; Kotze, Carla (AOSIS, 2023-10-23)

  BACKGROUND : Major neurocognitive disorder presents many challenges to patients, families and healthcare systems, especially when a patient requires admission to a psychiatric hospital. AIM : To identify characteristics ...
• Illness-perception in adolescent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder : a qualitative study 

  Botha, Wanita; Van der Westhuizen, Deborah (AOSIS, 2023-03-28)

  BACKGROUND : Adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience aspects of their lives in diverse ways. They often have more energy and creativity which are positive traits of ADHD, while their ...
• South Africa’s psychiatric training capacity in 2008 and in 2018. Has training capacity improved? 

  Beath, Natalie; Subramaney, Ugasvaree; Zingela, Zukiswa; Chiliza, Bonginkosi; Joska, John A.; Kotze, Carla; Ramlall, Suvra; Seedat, Soraya (AOSIS, 2023-03-30)

  BACKGROUND : There is a deficit of psychiatrists in South Africa, and to our knowledge, there is no situational analysis of training posts for psychiatrists in the country. AIM : To compare the number of specialists and ...
• Development of a mobile application for detection of adolescent mental health problems and feasibility assessment with primary health care workers 

  Groen, Gunter; Joerns-Presentati, Astrid; Dessauvagie, Anja; Seedat, Soraya; Van den Heuvel, Leigh L.; Suliman, Sharain; Grobler, G.P.; Jansen, Ronelle; Mwape, Lonia; Mukwato, Patricia; Chapima, Fabian; Korhonen, Joonas; Stein, Dan J.; Jonker, Deborah; Mudenda, John; Turunen, Timo; Valtins, Karlis; Beinarovica, Anete; Grada, Leva; Lahti, Mari (Taylor and Francis, 2022)

  INTRODUCTION : There has been a sharp increase in the use of digital health interventions in global health, particularly mobile health applications, in recent years. The extreme shortage of health care providers trained ...
• Reflections on pellagra, the then and the now 

  Viljoen, Margaretha; Claassen, Nico (Mattioli1885, 2022-12)

  By the mid-20th century, pellagra had virtually been eradicated from the USA and Europe. In contrast, outbreaks of pellagra, as diagnosed by skin lesions, today still occur in sub-Saharan Africa. We argue that outbreaks ...
• Mental health symptoms among homeless shelter residents during COVID-19 lockdown in Tshwane, South Africa 

  Stonehouse, Joanelle; Grobler, Gerhard Paul; Bhoora, Urvisha; Janse van Rensburg, Michelle Nedine Schorn (AOSIS, 2023-04-03)

  BACKGROUND : In order to contain the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa during the national state of emergency, the Gauteng Department of Social Development established temporary shelters and activated existing facilities ...
• Validity of categories related to gender identity in ICD-11 and DSM-5 among transgender individuals who seek gender-affirming medical procedures 

  Robles, Rebeca; Keeley, Jared W.; Vega-Ramírez, Hamid; Cruz-Islas, Jeremy; Rodríguez-Perez, Victor; Sharan, Pratap; Purnima, Shivani; Rao, Ravindra; Rodrigues-Lobato, María Ines; Soll, Bianca; Askevis-Leherpeux, Francoise; Roelandt, Jean-Luc; Campbell, Megan; Grobler, Gerhard Paul; Stein, Dan J.; Khoury, Brigitte; Khoury, Joseph El; Fresan, Ana; Medina-Mora, María-Elena; Reed, Geoffrey M. (Elsevier, 2022-01)

  BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE : The most recent versions of the two main mental disorders classifications-the World Health Organization's ICD-11 and the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5-differ substantially in their diagnostic ...
• Social determinants of health in male forensic patients admitted at a tertiary psychiatric hospital in South Africa 

  Mogase, Keabetswe; Moeketsi, Tshepiso; Sokudela, Funeka Brenda (Sage, 2022-12)

  INTRODUCTION : Social factors are increasingly being used to determine health outcomes. The concept of social determinants of health has been used to shape policies that address disparities. There is a paucity of such ...

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