Digital Health Interventions for Adolescents with Long-Term Health Conditions in South Africa: A Scoping Review.

Adolescents with long-term health conditions may benefit from digital health interventions (DHIs) to support self-management. The study aimed to map the current research on DHIs for adolescents with long-term conditions in South Africa, focusing on the types of interventions, targeted chronic conditions, and reported outcomes. The scoping review was conducted following the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidelines and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist.

Cardiovascular risk among community members in three communities in the Cape Metropole of the Western Cape.

Background:  Cardiovascular diseases pose a risk to population health in South Africa and are responsible for almost one in six deaths (17.3%).

Aim:  To determine the cardiovascular risk among community members who attended a community outreach programme.