scholarly journals Perceptions, expectations and experiences of first time chiropractic patients when consulting chiropractic students at a teaching clinic in KwaZulu-Natal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jamie Sarah Robbertze
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Chiropractic Care ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chiropractic Profession ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Teaching Clinic ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Chiropractic Students ◽  
First Time

The focus of the chiropractic profession is to diagnose, treat and prevent mechanical disorders which affect the neuromusculoskeletal system of the body. Chiropractic is a young profession in South Africa as law only recognized chiropractors as recently as 1971. As a result, perceptions of chiropractic are continually evolving as it gains popularity among the public. Despite its growth to date, further expansion of the profession may be limited due to its isolation from the public health care system of South Africa. This study aimed to determine the demographics, perceptions, expectations and experiences of first time chiropractic patients who consulted chiropractic students at a teaching clinic in KwaZulu-Natal. This information may allow identification of requirements for improved clinical outcomes of first time chiropractic patients and clinical practice of chiropractors and the chiropractic profession. This qualitative study utilized an exploratory and descriptive design. This methodology was chosen for its potential to reveal a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of chiropractic. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with fourteen first time chiropractic patients who presented to the Durban University of Technology (DUT) Chiropractic Day Clinic (CDC). Interviews were voice recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed which resulted in eight themes with numerous subthemes. These were explored and demographic characteristics of participants were determined to fulfil the objectives of the study. Eight participants were male and six were female. Most were aged in their thirties, forties or fifties. With regards to population groups, six participants were Black/African, three were Indian, three were Coloured and two were White. Half the participants had medical aid and most were professionals, technicians and associate professionals and services and sales workers. The understanding of chiropractic and chiropractic care theme revealed a limited awareness and understanding of chiropractic, perceptions of the chiropractic scope of practice and beliefs regarding chiropractic care for special population groups. The care-seeking influential factors theme indicated that the reasons chiropractic care was sought were: soreness, trusted suggestions and unsuitable alternative care options. The experience anticipations theme showed that some participants had indistinct ideas prior to their experiences while others had conceived expectations for the chiropractic care. The consultation outcomes theme indicated expectations for improvement in presenting complaints as well as occurrence of adverse reactions. The origins of beliefs theme revealed that perceptions and expectations of chiropractic were formed from accessible information as well as the first time chiropractic consultation experience. Professional and unprofessional aspects of the DUT CDC environment were discussed in the first impressions theme. The chiropractic care theme explored experiences of the thorough and detailed examination, feelings of fear and apprehension and trust and comfort, patient centered care, effectiveness of the treatment and pain and adverse effects. The last theme, experience reflections, demonstrates the extent to which expectations were met, aspects of the experience which could be improved and desires to return to and recommend the DUT CDC to others.

scholarly journals A consumer perspective of advertising by attorneys

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Boshoff
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Advertising Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Consumer Perspective ◽  
First Time

Attorneys in South Africa may soon be permitted to advertise their services for the first time. This recommendation put forward by the Association of Law Societies, though still to be ratified by the four provincial law societies, has come amid increasing competition between attorneys and non- professionals. The marketing fraternity is, however, uncertain as to how members of the public are likely to react to legal services advertising. This study attempts to provide some tentative guidelines for decision-making on advertising by attorneys. Interested parties like attorneys, marketing consultants, and advertising agencies could use the researched information to structure marketing communication strategies which will not transgress the ethical code of the attorneys' profession, but which will satisfy the information needs of consumers. The study reports the findings of a survey conducted among 1 000 members of the public. Indications are that consumers not only think that advertising should be permitted, but also that it will benefit both themselves and the legal profession. Opsomming Prokureurs mag moontlik binnekort toegelaat word om hul dienste te adverteer. Die aanbeveling van die Vereniging van Prokureursordes, wat nog deur die vier provinsiale wetsgenootskappe bekragtig moet word, is geneem as gevolg van toenemende mededinging tussen prokureurs en nie-professionele praktisyns. Bemarkingsdeskundiges is egter onseker oor wat die publiek se reaksie sal wees. Die studie poog om enkele tentatiewe riglyne voor te stel vir bemarkingskommunikasiestrategieë wat nie die regsprofessie se etiese kode sal oortree nie, maar tog voldoende inligting aan verbruikers sal beskikbaar stel. Die bevindinge van 'n opname onder 1 000 lede van die publiek dui daarop dat reklame nie alleen verwelkom sal word nie, maar dat dit moontlik tot voordeel van sowel die publiek as die regsprofessie sal strek.

scholarly journals The reconstitution of African women's spiritualities in the context of the Amazwi Abesifazane (Voices of Women) project in KwaZulu-Natal (1998-2005)

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Bernice Stott
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
National Archive ◽  
The Body ◽  
Government Support ◽  
African Women ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Kwazulu Natal

This study will investigate and critically evaluate the reconstitution of African women’s spiritualities in the context of the Amazwi Abesifazane project. This project forms part of the endeavours of Create Africa South, a Non Governmental Organisation situated in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, which was initiated by the artist Andries Botha. It encourages women, post trauma, to ‘re-member’ themselves by creating memory cloths of embroidery and appliqué reflecting on their experiences in pre- and post-apartheid South Africa. This interdisciplinary study theorises that it is an archive that speaks about African women resisting destructive forces and reconstituting their spiritualities through the therapeutic effects of creativity. The study will not include research into the many other activities undertaken by Create Africa South. Rupture is implied in the use of the word ‘reconstitution’. Reconstitution encompasses the act of constituting again the character of the body, mind and spirit as regards health, strength and well-being of the women (McIntosh, 1970:261). In this study, spirituality is defined as the way in which the women in the Amazwi Abesifazane project reflect upon and live out their belief in God. The power of storytelling is examined from the perspectives of narratology, narrative therapy, sewing and orality/literary studies as resources for the women’s reclamation of their lives. Defining feminisms in South Africa is problematised by issues of race, class and culture. In a context of poverty, everyday survivalist strategies are the diverse forms of resistance seen in the Amazwi Abesifazane project. The women’s stories, cloths and interviews are triangulated as primary data. They are examples of the rich art of resistance against despair and are located in a paradigm of hope. In conclusion, I strongly call for government support in declaring the project a national archive. The multidimensional mediums of the Amazwi Abesifazane/ UbuMama projects nurture the women’s creativity and revitalise their spiritualities towards personal and national transformation.

Revision of the South African genus Neopimus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4577 (2) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
JIŘÍ JANÁK
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
The South ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
First Time ◽  
African Genus

A revision of the south African genus Neopimus Özdikmen, Demir & Türkeş, 2008 is presented. Based on revision of the type and additional material, three species are recognised. The genus Neopimus is redescribed and all species are described or redescribed and illustrated, two of them for the first time: Neopimus capensis Janák, sp. nov., from Eastern Cape Province, South Africa and N. zulu Janák, sp. nov., from KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The distribution of the genus is mapped and a key of species is presented. 

Morphological and molecular characterisation of Criconemoides brevistylus Singh & Khera, 1976 and C. obtusicaudatus Heyns, 1962 from South Africa (Nematoda: Criconematidae) with first description of a male C. obtusicaudatus and proposal of new synonyms

Nematology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 961-976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther van den Berg ◽  
Louwrens R. Tiedt ◽  
Sergei A. Subbotin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
28S Rrna ◽  
Molecular Characterisation ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Maize Field ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
First Time

During recent collections in South Africa, two species of Criconemoides were found. Criconemoides brevistylus is described and illustrated from a golf course in KwaZulu-Natal Province. It is compared with several closely related species, and three previously described species (C. helicus, C. onostris and C. paronostris) are regarded as junior synonyms of C. brevistylus. Criconemoides obtusicaudatus is described and illustrated from a maize field in Limpopo Province. The male of the species is described for the first time. Molecular characterisation of C. brevistylus and C. obtusicaudatus using the D2-D3 expansions segments of 28S rRNA and ITS rRNA gene sequences are provided. Phylogenetic relationships of these species with other Criconemoides are discussed.

scholarly journals Plume moths in the protected areas of KwaZulu Natal province, Republic of South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Peter Ustjuzhanin ◽  
Vasiliy Kovtunovich ◽  
Pavel Udovichenko ◽  
Adrian Armstrong ◽  
Alexander Streltzov
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The Republic ◽  
First Time

The article gives 70 Pterophoridae species of nature reserves and national parks of KwaZulu Natal province, Republic of South Africa. New taxonomic combinations are revealed, new data on the distribution of Plume moths in the Republic of South Africa are indicated. New generic combinations were established for two species of Marasmarcha ammonias (Meyrick, 1909) and Sphenarches erythrodactylus (Fletcher, 1911). 7 species are recorded for the first time for the province of KwaZulu Natal.

Muscular system of euconodont animals and their systematic position (Euconodontophylea)

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-235
Author(s):  
A.P. Kasatkina ◽  
G.I. Buryi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Physical State ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Visual Similarity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Muscular System ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Direction Of Movement ◽  
First Time

The muscular system of euconodont animals was studied in detail on the basis of the photographs of imprints from the Lower Carboniferous Shrimp Bed of Granton (Scotland), Upper Ordovician Soom Shale (South Africa), and Silurian Waukesha biota (North America). Superficial body structures are for the first time recognized for euconodont animals: external rings (annulation) (Panderodus imprint) and their traces (specimens 2 and 3 from Granton). This makes them looking like many invertebrates, such as annelids, priapulids, or pentastomids, and different from primitive chordates. In all other imprints of euconodont animals, a deep frontal break reaching their central part uncovers the inner transversal structures of the body, muscular fibers. As in invertebrates, they have different orientation. The medial apices of the fibers can be directed obliquely towards either the head (specimens 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 from Granton, and Promissum pulchrum Kovacs-Endrődy imprints) or the tail (specimens 2 and 6 from Granton) or to be perpendicular to the body axis (specimens 3-5 from Granton). Discontinuity of the transversal structures (specimens 1 and 6) appears to occur in the euconodont animals. This suggests that the transversal obliquely-oriented structures visible on the euconodont imprints, are not myomers typical of chordate animals. Differently directed position of medial apices of the obliquely-oriented muscular fibers depends, probably, on physical state (direction of movement) of the animal. The longitudinal median structure, in our opinion, cannot be considered a chord, but is rather a gut extending from pharynx to anus. Apparently, in spite of visual similarity, the euconodont animals under study cannot be classified as chordates, or chaetognaths, or pentastomids. Their muscular system differs from that of all known groups of animals and shows its own unique structure: its inner transversal structures are muscular fibers, which externally look like rings (annulation). This supports our earlier conclusion (Kasatkina & Buryi, 1997) that euconodonts constitute a separate phylum, Euconodontophylea Kasatkina & Buryi, 1997.

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