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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Task shifting"”.
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Task-shifting and hypertension management in Ghana
… to higher income countries. Task-shifting, defined as the rational movement of clinical duties from physician to non-physician health care workers is one potential mechanism of mitigating the consequences of the brain drain. In Ghana, the TAsk-Shifting Strategy for …
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Training endogenous task shifting using neurologic music therapy
… music therapy approach to train endogenous task shifting would create positive results in standard measures of executive functioning (the Trail Making Test and the PASAT). In this pilot study, participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a neurologic music therapy group (NMT), …
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Creating a Sustainable Future: Task-shifting for Adolescent Mental Health Care
… to explore the facilitators and barriers to task-shifting in Project ASPIRE through the views and experiences of the registered counsellors, the supervisor, and the adolescents. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews and used the framework analysis method and thematic narrative …
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Effectiveness of task shifting in antiretroviral treatment services in health centres, Gasabo district, Rwanda
… the World Health Organization has proposed task-shifting as an approach to meet the ever-increasing need for HIV/AIDS care and treatment services. Rwanda started the process of task shifting towards nurse-based care in ART services in June 2010. After one year of implementation, a need to …
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Perinatal psychological distress in the South African context: The road to task shifting evidence based interventions
… an area in need of urgent attention. Integrating task shifting approaches into perinatal primary health care services is a promising solution. The first chapter introduces the thesis, providing context to the studies that are presented in later chapters and an overview of the research questions …
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Pilot testing models of task shifting for the care of severe mental illness in South Africa
… countries. Interventions that employ task shifting, the delegation of health care delivery tasks to less specialized health workers, have the potential to address this resource shortage. Community health workers, while an established and important delivery agent for task shifting in …
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Task Shifting To Nursing For A Sustainable Staffing Model Of School-Based Health Center In Under-Resourced Areas
<p>Background: There is a well-established link between health and education (Bundy and Guyatt 1996). An efficient and cost effective way to increase access to care is through school-based services. </p> <p>Methods: The purpose of this study is to develop a sustainable staffing model of a …
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An economic evaluation of task-shifting approaches to the dispensing of anti-retroviral treatment in the Western Cape, South Africa
This study aims to critically evaluate the ISPA [indirectly supervised pharmacists assistants] and nurse-based pharmaceutical care models against the standard of care that involves a pharmacist dispensing ART, on the basis of cost, and patient preference.
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Maternal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa: a comparison of health utilisation costs of maternal depression and the cost of intervening through a task-shifting approach
… and potential sustainability of a task-shifted psychological intervention offered to depressed mothers. To determine the costs of maternal depression, health care costs were analyzed over a period of 3 months from both patient and provider perspectives; this information was obtained …
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Organization-Level Determinants for Low Secondary Traumatic Stress in Lay Counselors Delivering Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Kenya
… disorders and trauma exposure among youth. Task-shifting models that train lay counselors to deliver evidence-based treatments can expand access to care, yet delivering trauma-focused treatment may increase counselors’ vulnerability to secondary traumatic stress (STS). Organization-level …
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Exploring the perspectives of health service providers on mental health policy and interventions for school children in the Western Cape, South Africa
… included intersectoral collaboration, task shifting from nurses and doctors to community health workers, and committed health workers. Conclusion: CAMHS receives very low priority in comparison to other health issues such as HIV/TB in South Africa. There is an urgent need to address …
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Outcomes of patients failing first-line antiretroviral treatment in a decentralised programme led by nurses in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Background: Task-shifting of care and first-line treatment for people living with HIV (PLHIV) from doctors to nurses is feasible, effective and acceptable in sub-Saharan Africa. Since first-line resistance to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is increasing, comprehensive HIV care should be informed by …
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Producing Malaria Indicators Through District Health Information Software (DHIS2): Practices, Processes And Challenges In Kenya
… various coping mechanisms such as informal task shifting and role sharing. They also used improvised tools which sustained the data collection process but had varied implications for the outcome of the process. Data quality problems were concealed in aggregated monthly reports. The DHIS2 …
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A comparative cost analysis of the pathway to diagnosing lymphoma in a tertiary hospital, Western Cape, South Africa
… was personnel and this could be decreased by task shifting and training of medical officers and interns.
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Clinical mentorship of nurse-initiated Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Khayelitsha, South Africa: a quality of care assessment
South Africa’s National Strategic Plan calls for task shifting of HIV care from doctors to nurses by 2016 to increase access to ART. There is little research demonstrating sustainable success of competent HIV management by nurses after training and mentorship. In February 2011, Medecins Sans …
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Absorptive capacity to finance HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa: Where are the bottlenecks?
… treatment towards primary health care; task shifting; iii balancing the conditional grant and equitable share; and enhancing coordination between the National and Provincial Departments of Health and with Treasury.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of mental health training on the knowledge and attitudes of non-specialist health workers in South Africa
… and the unequal distribution of resources, a task-shifting approach has been proposed to broaden access to services using less specialised health care providers and reduce the treatment gap resulting from a shortage of human resources. The study observations have shown that this as a feasible …
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Anesthesia care task sharing a clinical audit for the anesthesia care provided by anesthesia technologists in Wad Medani,Central Sudan
… to determine the proportion of anaesthesia care tasks that were carried out by the anaesthesia technologists at four public referral hospitals in Wad Medani, Sudan. Methods: The study was a three-month cross-sectional observational clinical audit of anaesthetic services at four Gezira State …
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Applicability of SAMBA point-of care devices in real-world settings
… for COVID-19 diagnosis (Chapter 5) In addition, task shifting studies performed on the SAMBA POC system demonstrated that all levels of healthcare workers can run the assay proficiently and upon completion of the training protocol provide training to peers. Healthcare levels participating in the …
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Nurses' practice of the integration of family planning and HIV prevention services in Ntcheu District, Malawi
… hospital management team adopts and implements task shifting of certain nursing duties to volunteers, in order to promote integration of family planning and HIV prevention services. This recommendation is based on the example of Tanzania, where Pathfinder International worked with district …
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