Evaluating counselling skills of community health workers for pregnant adolescents in Limpopo province.

Background: Adolescent pregnancy carries significant global ramifications. Community health workers (CHWs) play a role in empowering adolescents through counselling skills, thereby promoting informed decision-making for better outcomes.

Aim: The study aims to evaluate the counselling skills of CHWs in their efforts to support pregnant adolescents (PA) in Limpopo province.

Adolescent girls' perceptions regarding the use of contraceptives in Ekurhuleni District, Gauteng.

Background: Unintended pregnancies pose various challenges for adolescent girls and can be prevented through contraceptive use. However, contraceptive use among adolescents is lower compared to among older women.

Aim: To describe adolescent girls' perceptions of the use of contraceptives.

Factors influencing the utilisation of Youth Friendly Health Services in Blantyre, Malawi.

Background: Usage of Youth Friendly Health Services (YFHSs) remains unsatisfactory in sub-Saharan Africa despite global agreements on the utilisation of these services among the youths.

Aim: The aim of the study was to identify factors that influence the utilisation of YFHSs in Blantyre, Malawi.

Setting: Four health centres in Blantyre, Malawi.

Challenges and opportunities in adolescent intellectual disability care and rehabilitation.

Background: There have been mounting concerns over the lack of proper facilities for adolescents living with intellectual disability (ALWID), and the struggles particularly of the developing world to provide care and rehabilitation services for this population. Care and rehabilitation services are needed to improve this population's normal functioning but have been scarce or non-existent in most communities.

Objectives: This study aimed to solicit and describe nurse managers' views of the challenges and opportunities in rendering care and rehabilitation services to ALWID.

Perceptions of community health workers on teenage pregnancy in rural Limpopo: A qualitative study.

Background:  Despite measures put in place to combat teenage pregnancy, the rate remains high. Community health workers (CHWs) are a cadre of health workers that can help put measures in place to reduce teenage pregnancy in the communities in which they live and work.

Aim:  This article aims to gain a deeper understanding of CHWs' perceptions regarding teenage pregnancy in the rural districts of Limpopo province.

Acts of xenophobia among nurse educators: A qualitative study.

Background: Xenophobia has been in existence for centuries, though subtle and not too pronounced as of recent years. It has now pervaded all spheres including businesses, academia and industries. Previous studies have found it to be disruptive both to organizations and employees.

What's holding back youth-friendly health services in Blantyre, Malawi? A qualitative exploration.

The use of Youth Friendly Health Services remains sub-optimal in Sub-Saharan Africa despite global agreements on the same. The aim of this study was to explore barriers to utilization of Youth Friendly Health Services in Blantyre, Malawi. This was a qualitative study drawing on three focus group discussions of youths aged 10 to 24 (N=24) and individual interviews with Youth Friendly Health Service providers from four health facilities (N=6).

Use of home remedies for the treatment and prevention of coronavirus disease: An integrative review.

Background And Aims: Home remedies are understood to mean medications or tonics prepared at home to treat certain ailments without any prescription or professional supervision. Reliance on home remedies increased during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The aim of this integrative review was to identify home remedies used to treat and prevent COVID-19 and discuss implications for nursing practice and health related to the safety and efficacy of home remedies.

Enablers to enhance school-based adolescents with intellectual disabilities' learning: A narrative approach.

Society has always understood individuals with intellectual disabilities from a stance of deficiency, resulting in limited expectations and prospects for school-going adolescents with intellectual disabilities. The study used the social model of disability to explore teachers' perceptions of enablers to enhance school-based adolescents with intellectual disabilities' learning and took cognisance of a wave of policies aimed at including adolescents with intellectual disabilities in mainstream education. A qualitative narrative approach was used for the study.

Transition of adolescents with intellectual disability from schools for learners with special educational needs: Parents views for the preparedness.

Background: Studies on preparedness of parents of adolescents living with intellectual disabilities transitioning from school to adulthood are scarce in sub-Saharan Africa. This study explored views of parents on their preparedness to handle adolescents transitioning from special schools to adulthood.

Methods: Descriptive qualitative method was used to collect views of parents of adolescents with intellectual disability on their preparedness to handle transition of their children from school into community life.