Prinsipiële kritiek op die sosiale studies.

Op grond van die skrywer se onlangse navorsing oor ,,’n Historiesprinsipiële beskouing oor die opkoms, die veld van ondersoek en die betekenis van die Opvoedkundige Sosiologie, met spesiale verwysing na die Laerskool” , wil hy die leser die een en ander omtrent sy bevindinge meedeel

Enkele grondleggende gedagtes oor die sosiale studie-leergang vir die Transvaalse laerskole

In ’n vorige artikel is op grond van ’n samevattende prinsipieel-kritiese beskouing ’n antitese van die gangbare opvatting en toepassing van die Sosiale Studies van Amerika en Engeland gegee

Uiteensetting omtrent die behandeling van die jeugoortreders in Suid-Afrika1)

Daar heers vandag in Suid-Afrika, maar trouens oor die hele wêreld intense belangstelling in die probleem van jeugmisdaad en alles wat daarmee saamhang. Belangstelling wat wissel van sentimentele nuuskierigheid tot eerlike en diepgaande wetenskaplike ondersoek

Christelike onderwys- ’n Beknopte opsomming van die besprekinge op die A.C.B. Konferensie.

Op Dinsdag 25 en Woensdag 26 Januarie 1.1. is ’n konferensie van die Afrikaanse Calvinistiese Beweging in die Totius-gedenksaal op Potchefstroom onder voorsitterskap van prof. D. J. van Rooy gehou. Ongeveer 200 persone oor die lengte en breedte van Suid-Afrika, en selfs uit Suidwes-Afrika, die Rhodesiës en Kenia was teenwoordig

Op pad na ’n nuwe bedieningstruktuur: ’n Analise van die gemeente as deel van hierdie proses

Heading toward new ministerial structures: A situationanalysis of the local congregationAccording to 2 Corinthians 3:18 the church has the instruction to be transformed so to become part of the body of Christ more and more. But it does happen thatthe church stagnate in its ministry. The purpose of the subject Church Growth is to adress this problem. One phase of this subject is the analysis of the situation inthe local church. The purpose of the analysis is to systematically look at the situation in a congregation of the church and then to identify problems that stand in theway of fulfilling of the Biblical command. The situation- analysis can not be done at random, but must be planned carefully. This study gives attention to a plannedsituation-analysis of the local church

The burden of depression and anxiety among medical students in South Africa: A cross-sectional survey at the University of Cape Town

Background. Depressive and anxiety disorders occur at very high rates among medical students. For instance, an international review and meta-analysis estimated the overall pooled crude prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms at 27.2%. However, South African (SA) data are very limited.Objectives. To determine rates of depression and anxiety among medical students and to examine the associations with various sociodemographic variables (biological sex, gender identity, household income, ethnicity, and clinical v. pre-clinical students). We also examined whether the ‘mini-semester’ of 2017 resulting from the 2016 ‘Fees Must Fall’ student protests was associated with increased depression/anxiety.Methods. The study was a cross-sectional electronic survey conducted in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, using an anonymous, self-administered online questionnaire. The questionnaire included basic sociodemographic questions, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.Results. The sample consisted of 473 medical students, 333 (70.4%) female and 140 (29.6%) male. Based on ethnic self-identification, 165 (35.6%) were black, 144 (31.1%) white, 88 (19%) coloured, 52 (11.2%) Indian and 8 (1.7%) Asian. There were 239 pre-clinical students (50.5%) and 234 clinical students (49.5%). Of the sample, 36.4% were above the cut-off for major depressive disorder and 45.9% for anxiety disorder. Reported rates of disorders diagnosed by a health professional were 25.0% for depressive disorder and 20.5% for anxiety disorder, and 28.1% of all students were receiving psychotropic medication. Female sex was associated with both depression (prevalence ratio (PR) 3.7; p<0.001) and anxiety diagnoses (PR 4.7; p<0.001). None of the other sociodemographic characteristics showed significant associations. Interestingly, students who undertook the 2017 mini-semester showed an increased rate of depression (PR 2.1; p<0.05) and anxiety diagnoses (PR 2.1; p<0.05).Conclusions. Nearly one in four students reported depression/anxiety diagnoses and were on psychotropic medication, significantly more than age-based expectations. Even more screened positive for risk of depression/anxiety. Our findings indicate that medical students, particularly females, are at a significantly increased risk of depression and anxiety disorders. Results suggest that the 2016 student protests may have had a direct impact on the mental state of students. Multidisciplinary efforts should be targeted at initiatives to strengthen mental wellbeing and institutional culture around mental health. These efforts may help build resilience in the next generation of health professionals in SA ahead of work in an overburdened health and health education system.

New Periodic 6.7 GHz Class II Methanol Maser Associated with G358.460-0.391

Eight new class II methanol masers selected from the 6.7 GHz Methanol Multibeam survey catalogues I and II were monitored at 6.7 GHz with the 26m Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) radio telescope for three years and seven months, from February 2011 to September 2014. The sources were also observed at 12.2 GHz and two were sufficiently bright to permit monitoring. One of the eight sources, namely G358.460-0.391, was found to show periodic variations at 6.7 GHz. The period was determined and tested for significance using the Lomb-Scargle, epoch-folding and Jurkevich methods, and by fitting a simple analytic function. The best estimate for the period of the 6.7 GHz class II methanol maser line associated with G358.460-0.391 is 220.0 $\pm$ 0.2 day.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. The appendix of 4 pages (with 16 figures) will be published as online versio