Thuledi Makua*

University of South Africa, South Africa

*Corresponding Author: Thuledi Makua, University of South Africa, South Africa.

Received: May 21, 2024; Published: July 02, 2024

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to gather the knowledge and the skills the traditional health practitioners (THPs) use to assess the adult client. The Naturalistic Overt Nonparticipant Observation (NONO) was used to collect the data from the THP. The data collection was from 2021 to 2023 in Sekhukhune District.

I used the purposive and snowballing techniques to select the THPs. I consulted twenty-eight THPs as a client who seek help. Narrative analysis was used focusing on the skills the THPs used, the way the conclusions were constructed, and the contexts in which they were shared with me.

No two THPs were similar and sequential in the use of various approaches of conducting history taking, assessment and feedback to the client, but the content was the same.

 Keywords: Traditional Health Practitioners (THP); South Africa

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Citation

Citation: Thuledi Makua. “The Traditional Health Practitioners’ Comprehensive Health Assessment of the Adult Clients”.Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 8.8 (2024): 03-07.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2024 Thuledi Makua. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.