Kerry-Ann Louw
Biographic Data
| ID | 353034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry-Ann Louw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry-Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Louw |
| SIGNATURE | LOUW K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4931-5084 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Developing, piloting, and evaluating a psychological first aid training for medical students in South Africa
BACKGROUND: Common mental disorders are highly prevalent among medical students. One way to ameliorate risk for mental disorders in this group is to improve medical students’ psychological literacy and provide psychoeducation to promote appropriate help seeking, which could potentially be achieved through changes to the formal curriculum. OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to develop, pilot and evaluate a context-sensitive and culturally appropriate Psychol…
‘They Sent Me Out to School, and I Came Back with a Baby’
Exploring perinatal women’s experience of nonfatal suicidal behaviour (NFSB) could help illuminate the contexts in which perinatal suicide occurs and new ways to conceptualise maternal suicide prevention. Our aim was to explore perinatal women’s subjective experience of NFSB in South Africa. Data were collected via in-depth interviews with seven perinatal women hospitalised following NFSB. Thematic analysis showed how poverty and gender norms sha…
This place is making me more depressed
People who attend hospital following a suicide attempt represent a well-delineated high-risk group of patients who may be amenable to targeted interventions to reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour. Little is, however, known about how hospitals in South Africa respond to suicide attempters, what quality of care these patients receive or what possibilities exist for hospital-based suicide prevention interventions. We describe an ethnographic study…
Correlates of emotional and behavioural problems in children with perinatally acquired HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
In the antiretroviral era, youth perinatally infected with HIV (PHIV+) are surviving into adulthood and are at risk for emotional and behavioural problems. Few studies of these problems have been conducted in low- and middle-income countries and even fewer in sub-Saharan Africa. The aims of this study were to provide a quantitative description of emotional and behavioural problems in a group of PHIV+ youth (n = 78) in South Africa compared with a…
This place is making me more depressed
People who attend hospital following a suicide attempt represent a well-delineated high-risk group of patients who may be amenable to targeted interventions to reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour. Little is, however, known about how hospitals in South Africa respond to suicide attempters, what quality of care these patients receive or what possibilities exist for hospital-based suicide prevention interventions. We describe an ethnographic study…
Correlates of emotional and behavioural problems in children with perinatally acquired HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
In the antiretroviral era, youth perinatally infected with HIV (PHIV+) are surviving into adulthood and are at risk for emotional and behavioural problems. Few studies of these problems have been conducted in low- and middle-income countries and even fewer in sub-Saharan Africa. The aims of this study were to provide a quantitative description of emotional and behavioural problems in a group of PHIV+ youth (n = 78) in South Africa compared with a…
This place is making me more depressed
People who attend hospital following a suicide attempt represent a well-delineated high-risk group of patients who may be amenable to targeted interventions to reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour. Little is, however, known about how hospitals in South Africa respond to suicide attempters, what quality of care these patients receive or what possibilities exist for hospital-based suicide prevention interventions. We describe an ethnographic study…
‘They Sent Me Out to School, and I Came Back with a Baby’
Exploring perinatal women’s experience of nonfatal suicidal behaviour (NFSB) could help illuminate the contexts in which perinatal suicide occurs and new ways to conceptualise maternal suicide prevention. Our aim was to explore perinatal women’s subjective experience of NFSB in South Africa. Data were collected via in-depth interviews with seven perinatal women hospitalised following NFSB. Thematic analysis showed how poverty and gender norms sha…
Developing, piloting, and evaluating a psychological first aid training for medical students in South Africa
BACKGROUND: Common mental disorders are highly prevalent among medical students. One way to ameliorate risk for mental disorders in this group is to improve medical students’ psychological literacy and provide psychoeducation to promote appropriate help seeking, which could potentially be achieved through changes to the formal curriculum. OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to develop, pilot and evaluate a context-sensitive and culturally appropriate Psychol…
Medicine (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychological intervention (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (2 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (2 works) · Medical emergency (2 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (2 works)