Petra De Koker

Biographic Data

ID7730964
NAMEPetra De Koker
GIVEN NAMESPetra
FAMILY NAMEDe Koker
SIGNATUREDE KOKER P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cape Town
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX0

  • Validity and reliability of the South African health promoting schools monitoring questionnaire

    Open AccessPatricia Struthers, Lisa Wegner et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2016

    Health promoting schools, as conceptualised by the World Health Organisation, have been developed in many countries to facilitate the health-education link. In 1994, the concept of health promoting schools was introduced in South Africa. In the process of becoming a health promoting school, it is important for schools to monitor and evaluate changes and developments taking place. The Health Promoting Schools (HPS) Monitoring Questionnaire was dev…

  • Effects of PREPARE, a Multi-component, School-Based HIV and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevention Programme on Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviour and IPV

    Open AccessCatherine Mathews, Sander Matthijs Egger et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2016

    Young South Africans, especially women, are at high risk of HIV. We evaluated the effects of PREPARE, a multi-component, school-based HIV prevention intervention to delay sexual debut, increase condom use and decrease intimate partner violence (IPV) among young adolescents. We conducted a cluster RCT among Grade eights in 42 high schools. The intervention comprised education sessions, a school health service and a school sexual violence preventio…

  • A Systematic Review of Interventions for Preventing Adolescent Intimate Partner Violence

    Open AccessPetra De Koker, Catherine Mathews et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Health2014

  • HIV among out-of-school youth in Eastern and Southern Africa

    Koen Stroeken, Pieter Remes et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2012

    The overall decline of the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa conceals how the HIV burden has shifted to fall on areas that have been more difficult to reach. This review considers out-of-school youth, a category typically eluding interventions that are school-based. Our review of descriptive studies concentrates on the most affected region, Southern and Eastern Africa, and spans the period between 2000 and 2010. Among the relatively small but in…

  • Psychological well-being and socio-economic hardship among Aids orphans and other vulnerable children in Guinea

    Wim Delva, An Vercoutere et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2009

    Over the past decade, the effects of AIDS-related parental death on children's socio-economic, educational and psychological well-being have become apparent. Most studies, however, have compared the plight of so-called AIDS orphans with non-orphaned children only. Consequently, such study designs are unable to establish if the AIDS-related cause of death of the parents confers effects additional to those of parent-bereavement. We therefore conduc…