Rowan Thompson

ORCID: 0000-0002-9789-9782
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Research Areas
  • E-Learning and COVID-19
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • ICT in Developing Communities
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Mobile Learning in Education

Durban University of Technology
2017-2022

Key stakeholders' involvement is crucial to the sustainability of quality point-of-care (POC) diagnostics services in low-and-middle income countries. The aim this study was explore key stakeholder perceptions on implementation POC rural primary healthcare (PHC) clinics South Africa.We conducted a qualitative encompassing in-depth interviews with multiple stakeholders diagnostic for and resource-limited PHC clinics. Interviews were digitally recorded transcribed verbatim prior thematic...

10.3390/diagnostics7010003 article EN cc-by Diagnostics 2017-01-08

The use of mobile technology has been reported to help improve access education for people in remote areas. However, there is limited evidence its adoption resource-limited settings. aim this study was utilize stakeholder generated ideas design and pilot a learning curriculum, with the purpose facilitating training quality point-of-care diagnostics services KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) rural clinics.Nominal Group Technique employed enable collaboration stakeholders designing piloting POC curriculum....

10.3389/frph.2021.728309 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Reproductive Health 2022-02-01

This paper presents the outcomes of a community-based information communications technology (ICT) and basic adult education (BAE) nutrition training intervention for out-of-school young mothers (YMs) in resource-limited rural village eastern Limpopo Province, South Africa. YMs have been identified as vulnerable priority group human development. Out-of-school are often trapped cycle poverty because they lack resources qualifications to compete outside their environment. Implementation...

10.17159/2221-4070/2021/v10i1a3 article EN cc-by-nc Educational Research for Social Change 2021-06-08
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