PILOTING A MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN EXPLORATION OF CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE, CONFIDENCE AND ATTITUDES

Piloting a mental health training programme for community health workers in South Africa: an exploration of changes in knowledge, confidence and attitudes

Abstract Background There is a shortage of trained mental health workers in spite of the significant contribution of psychiatric disorders to the global disease burden.Task shifting, through the delegation of health care tasks to less specialised health workers such as community health workers (CHWs), is a promising approach to address the human re

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Case report: A 51-year-old diabetic patient with primary bilateral macronodular adrenal hyperplasia and primary hyperparathyroidism

A 51-year-old female patient with diabetes mellitus and hypertension, exhibiting poor control of blood sugar and blood pressure, was unexpectedly found to vegetable glycerin for sale have multiple large adrenal nodules, excessive cortisol secretion, and adrenocorticotropic hormone inhibition.Cortisol levels remained unresponsive to both low-dose an

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Using ordinal scales in psychology

It seems common to believe that measures reported by participants in the behavioral sciences attain ordinal but not interval status.We consider three different measurement situations: Where one value is obtained from each of a number of respondents; where the measure is formed from combining other measures; and where the measure is obtained as a re

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Natural light optimization in an existing primary school: human centred design and daylight retrofitting solutions for students wellbeing

How the human centred design solutions will implement the benefit of daylighting in an satisfyer pro penguin next generation existing primary school? This paper shows research experiences on students visual comfort inside the school building Don Milani, in Prato (Italy).The layout of training spaces, distribution and functional organization is also

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