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(NISC (Pty), Medpharm Publications, and Informa UK Limited, 2021)OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to adapt a diabetes nutrition education programme (NEP) developed for a primary healthcare setting for implementation in a tertiary healthcare setting. This manuscript describes ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as the Taylor & Francis Group), 2024)AIM : The purpose of this study was to investigate how a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of an adapted diabetes nutrition education programme (NEP) was received by adults with sub-optimally controlled (HbA1c of ≥ 8%) ...
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(Water Research Council, 2007-06)In this article the term 'African leafy vegetables' was adopted to refer to the collective of plant species which are used as leafy vegetables and which are referred to as morogo or imifino by African people in South Africa. ...
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(Nature Research, 2022-07-26)HIV treatment programs face challenges in identifying patients at risk for loss-to-follow-up and uncontrolled viremia. We applied predictive machine learning algorithms to anonymised, patientlevel HIV programmatic data ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-06)INTRODUCTION: Globally, length of stay of patients in emergency departments remains a challenge. Remaining in the emergency department for >12 h increases health care costs, morbidity and mortality rates and leads ...
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(Elsevier, 2020-01)Bone remodelling in a healthy body is in constant balance, maintaining an adaptive and robust skeletal system. In osteoporosis this balance is disrupted with the rates of osteoclastic bone resorption exceeding osteoblastic bone ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd, Medpharm Publications, and Informa UK Limited, 2019)OBJECTIVE : The aim was to describe the anthropometry, bone mineral content (BMC), bone mineral density (BMD), dietary calcium intake and 25(OH)D3 levels in 11- and 12-year-old children in a peri-urban area. DESIGN : A ...
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Bone health, body composition, and vitamin D status of black preadolescent children in South Africa (MDPI Publishing, 2019-05-31)Optimal bone health is important in children to reduce the risk of osteoporosis later in life. Both body composition and vitamin D play an important role in bone health. This study aimed to describe bone health, body ...
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(African Scholary Science Communications Trust, 2019-06)This paper describes households’ perceptions of hunger and adequacy of dietary intake by caregivers. A descriptive cross-sectional study in the quantitative research paradigm was conducted to collect data from caregivers ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-11)BACKGROUND. Although Botswana is a middle-income country, undernutrition among children younger than 5 years of age is still seen in various parts of the country. There is little information on the clinical and anthropometric ...
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(MDPI, 2023-03-21)Appropriate feeding practices are protective against malnutrition and poor growth. We compared feeding practices and growth in HIV-exposed-uninfected (HEU) and HIV-unexposeduninfected (HUU) between 6-12 months of age in ...
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(BioMed Central, 2020-09)BACKGROUND: Very little has been researched about the efficacy, effectiveness, feasibility, sustainability and impact of food-based approaches on the diets and nutritional status of populations at risk of hunger and food ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2019-09-18)BACKGROUND : Evaluating the impact of a nutrition education program could provide insight into the effectiveness of an intervention. Researchers tested the hypothesis that a theory-based contextual nutrition education ...
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(BMC, 2024-07)BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 vaccination programme in South Africa was rolled out in February 2021 via five delivery channels- hospitals, primary healthcare (PHC), fixed, temporary, and mobile outreach channels. In this study, ...
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(Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd, Taylor & Francis, 2017)BACKGROUND : Intake of dairy-related nutrients of South Africans is low. Nutrition professionals may influence dietary behaviour. Their own disposition related to dairy is unknown, yet important in promoting the “have ...
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(BMC, 2024-01)BACKGROUND : The global Human Resources for Health (HRH) strategy emphasizes the need to invest in HRH to meet population needs and improve the provision of quality health care services. In South Africa, dietitians are ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-12)BACKGROUND : Interprofessional education aims to prepare learners to collaborate across specialties to provide high-quality healthcare. Internationally and nationally, the emerging need for integrated healthcare and ...
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(MDPI Open Access Journals, 2019-08)Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a practical alternative to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for determining body composition in children. Currently, there are no population specific equations available ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2019-03-12)INTRODUCTION : Healthy diets play a role in the management and care for adults living with HIV/AIDS (ALH). Appropriate nutrition education (NE) is necessary to equip ALH with relevant knowledge and skills for healthy ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as the Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)OBJECTIVE : To describe the dietary intake and its quality of patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by assessing the dietary variety (DVS), dietary diversity (DDS), nutrient adequacy ratio (NAR) ...
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