von Pressentin, Klaus B.
Mash, Robert J.
Baldwin-Ragaven, Laurel
Botha, Roelf Petrus Gerhardus
Govender, Indiran
Steinberg, Wilhelm Johannes
Esterhuizen, Tonya M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
EuropeAid (DCI-AFS/2013/336-452)
Discovery Foundation
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Article History
Received: 6 March 2017
Accepted: 24 January 2018
First Online: 5 February 2018
Authors’ information
: At the time of conducting the study, KBvP and RJM were both located at the Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, in South Africa and co-ordinating a national project entitled “Strengthening primary health care through primary care doctors and family physicians” that was funded by the European Union. Subsequent to completing the study, KBvP started working as a family physician within the Eden district health system, Western Cape Department of Health, where he supervises postgraduate family medicine trainees. RJM is KBvP’s PhD supervisor and head of the Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University. LBR, RPGB, IG and WJS are academic family physicians based at the family medicine departments (respectively at the University of Witwatersrand, the University of Pretoria, the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University and the University of the Free State), which participated in the national, European Union-funded project. TME is a consultant biostatistician in the Biostatistics Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University.
: This study was approved by the Health Research Ethics Committee, Stellenbosch University (reference S15/01/003), as well as the relevant institutions and provincial authorities in the study setting (the full list of HREC approvals and PHRC/DRC permissions is available). All the participants gave their written informed consent.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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