Browsing by Author "Wiedaad Slemming"
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Item A qualitative study reporting maternal perceptions of the importance of play for healthy growth and development in the first two years of lifeAlessandra Prioreschi; Stephanie Wrottesley; Wiedaad Slemming; Emmanuel Cohen; Shane NorrisItem An Opportunity During Antenatal Services to Strengthen Nurturing Care Global and National Recommendations for Routine Ultrasound Before 24 Weeks GestationWiedaad Slemming; Roisin Drysdale; LINDA RICHTERItem Building knowledge, optimising physical and mental health and setting up healthier life trajectories in South African women (Bukhali): a preconception randomised control trial part of the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI)(2022-03-25) Shane A Norris; Catherine E Draper; Alessandra Prioreschi; CM Smuts; Lisa Jayne Ware; CindyLee Dennis; Philip Awadalla; D Bassani; Zulfiqar Bhutta; Laurent Briollais; D William Cameron; Tobias Chirwa; B Fallon; CM Gray; Jill Hamilton; J Jamison; Heather Jaspan; Jennifer Jenkins; Kathleen Kahn; AP Kengne; Estelle V Lambert; Naomi Levitt; Marie-Claude Martin; Michele Ramsay; Daniel Roth; Stephen Scherer; Daniel Sellen; Wiedaad Slemming; Deborah Sloboda; M Szyf; Stephen Tollman; Mark Tomlinson; Suzanne Tough; Stephen G Matthews; Linda Richter; Stephen Lyeis challenging due to a persistent infectious disease, burgeoning obesity, most notably among women and rising rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). With two thirds of women presenting at their first antenatal visit either overweight or obese in urban South Africa (SA), the preconception period is an opportunity to optimise health and offset transgenerational risk of both obesity and NCDs. Methods and analysis Bukhali is the first individual randomised controlled trial in Africa to test the efficacy of a complex continuum of care intervention and forms part of the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) consortium implementing harmonised trials in Canada, China, India and SA. Starting preconception and continuing through pregnancy, infancy and childhood, the intervention is designed to improve nutrition, physical and mental health and health behaviours of South African women to offset obesity-risk (adiposity) in their offspring. Women aged 18–28 years (n=6800) will be recruited from Soweto, an urban-poor area of Johannesburg. The primary outcome is dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry derived fat mass index (fat mass divided by height2 ) in the offspring at age 5 years. Community health workers will deliver the intervention randomly to half the cohort by providing health literacy material, dispensing a multimicronutrient supplement, providing health services and feedback, and facilitating behaviour change support sessions to optimise: (1) nutrition, (2) physical and mental health and (3) lay the foundations for healthier pregnancies and early child development. Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval has been obtained from the Human Ethics Research Committee University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (M1811111), the University of Toronto, Canada (19-0066-E) and the WHO Ethics Committee (ERC.0003328). Data and biological sample sharing policies are consistent with the governance policy of the HeLTI Consortium (https://helti.org) and South African government legislation (POPIA). The recruitment and research team will obtain informed consent.Item Fidelity of implementation of national guidelines on malaria diagnosis for children underfive years in Rivers State Nigeria(BIOMED CENTRAL LTD) Mina Whyte; Latifat Ibisomi; Tobias Chirwa; Jonathan Levin; Wiedaad SlemmingItem Male partners experiences of early pregnancy ultrasound scans in Soweto South Africa The Healthy Pregnancy Healthy Baby randomised trialRoisin Drysdale; Wiedaad Slemming; Tawanda Makusha; LINDA RICHTERItem Maternal perceptions of infants body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa A qualitative study in SowetoEmmanuel Cohen; Wiedaad Slemming; Stephanie Wrottesley; Alessandra Prioreschi; Shane NorrisItem Results From South Africas 2022 Healthy Active Kids Report Card on Physical Activity Body Composition Proxies and Nutritional Status in Children and AdolescentsZ Nyawose; R Naidoo; C Christie; S Bassett; Philippe Gradidge; Wiedaad Slemming; Lume Morrow; E et alItem This can certainly work stakeholder perspectives of the feasibility of a caregiverled training program for caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in a rural setting in MalawiTakondwa Bakuwa; Gillian Saloojee; Wiedaad Slemming