NCD Research Symposium

                                             

 

The Department of Health of South Africa in collaboration with the Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA+) project hosted the

 

Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Research Symposium

4 March 2020, Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West

 

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognises NCDs as a major challenge for sustainable development. Evidence-informed decision-making is at the core of addressing the impact of NCDs and in advancing progress to achieving the SDGs as well aspirations for the African continent elaborated in Agenda 2063.

The National NCD Research Symposium was an opportunity to bring together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to exchange knowledge on prevention and treatment of diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and related mental health conditions; identify the gaps in knowledge base; and discuss implications for healthcare policy and practices.

It was an opportunity for engagement, networking, dialogue with the overall goal of making an impact on health outcomes.

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  Programme

Oral Presentations

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Parallel Session: Population interventions to address risk factors (obesity, physical inactivity)

Time	Title of presentation	Presenter
10.30 – 10.45	Population-level interventions to increase physical activity to prevent cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	Solange Durao
10.45 – 11.00	Taxed and untaxed beverage consumption by young adults in Langa, South Africa before and one year after a national sugar-sweetened beverage tax	Rina Swart
11.00 – 11.15	The Impact of Tobacco Control Policy Interventions on the Prevalence of Tobacco Smoking in South Africa, 1998-2017	Beatrice Nojilana
11.15 – 11.30	Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program for low and middle-income countries:  Preliminary implementation findings from Lifestyle Africa	Lungiswa Tsolekile
11.30 – 11.45	Situational analysis of population-level interventions targeting risk factors for diabetes and hypertension in South Africa	Jeannine Uwimana-Nicol
	Situational analysis of population-level interventions targeting risk factors for diabetes and hypertension, implemented in Rwanda	David Tumusiime
11.45 – 12.00	The relationship between perceived and objectively measured attributes of the built environment and physical activity in low- and high-income communities in South Africa	Estelle Lambert
12.00 – 12.15	If you build it, will they come? Park upgrades, park use, neighbourhood perceptions of urban parks park-based physical activity in urban Cape Town	Clare Bartels
12.15 – 12.30	WoW! (WesternCape on Wellness): addressing NCD risk factors through health-promoting partnerships and champion networks	Frederick Marais

 

Parallel Session: Risk factors, screening and EBP 

Time	Title of presentation	Presenter
10.30 – 10.45	Measuring Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors in South Africa: the policy evidence challenge	Thulile Zondi
10.45 – 11.00	Applying the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Integrated Knowledge Translation: experiences from South Africa	Nasreen Jessani
11.00 – 11.15	Hyperglycemia first detected in pregnancy in Cape Town – the need for intervention has never been greater	Dinky Levitt
11.15 – 11.30	A motivational model for healthy eating in a South African township	Jeroen De Man
11.30 – 11.45	How to transform the workplace environment to prevent and control risk factors associated with non-communicable chronic diseases.	Darcelle Schouw
11.45 – 12.00	Reducing the Gap between Evidence and Practice-Improving the Implementation of the South African evidence-based asthma guideline in Primary Health Care of the Western Cape metropole.	Michael Pather
12.00 – 12.15	The Comparability of Framingham Blood-based and Non Blood-based Cardiovascular Disease Risk Scores: Secondary Analysis of the 2012 WHO STEPs data in Rwanda.	Jean Berchmans Niyibizi
12.15 – 12.30	Using Citizen Science and participatory research approach to explore community-level cardiovascular disease risk perceptions and communication to support advocacy for pilot interventions in sub-Saharan Africa	Kufre Joseph Okop

 

Parallel Session: NCD management including Integration of care

 

Time	Title of presentation	Presenter
10.30 – 10.45	The effect of school-based interventions addressing adolescent mental health in Low-Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review	Ameer Hohlfeld
10.45 – 11.00	Lessons from the Adolescents Receiving Continuous Care For Childhood-Onset Chronic Conditions study – transition of overage patients at a paediatric cardiology outpatient clinic.	Lenise Swanson
11.00 – 11.15	The Tshwane Insulin Project	Paul Rheeder
11.15 – 11.30	Integrating a team-based community-oriented intervention for stroke	Elsje Scheffler
11.30 – 11.45	Implementation of comprehensive patient education and counselling for NCDs	Bob Mash
11.45 – 12.00	Factors associated with poor glycaemic control among patients with multi-morbidities	Bronwyn Myers
12.00 – 12.15	Integrated models of care for diabetes and hypertension in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review	Anke Rohwer
12.15 – 12.30	Integrating screening and care of gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes prevention through PMTCT into primary health services in South Africa	Mutabazi  Jean Claude

Poster presentations 

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Title of presentation	Presenter
The modulation of glucose metabolism by leaf teas and their specific bioactive constituents – a systematic review	Liske Kotze-Horstmann
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance assessed the phenotypes of myocardial inflammation and fibrosis in chronic rheumatic heart disease patients	Olukayode Aremu
Evaluation of valvular pathology, distributions and patterns of enhancement in rheumatic heart disease using cardiovascular magnetic resonance	Petronella Samuels
Metabolic Biomarker profiling to Understand Rheumatic Heart Disease Pathogenesis	Daniel Mutithu
Profile of adult cardiomyopathy patients in Cape Town – pilot phase of the IMHOTEP Study	Jacqui Cirota
Long-term survival of prevalent cases of dilated cardiomyopathy from a tertiary centre in South Africa: IMHOTEP sub-study	Jacqui Cirota
Seizures status and associated factors among Epilepsy patients taking Anti-epileptic Drugs in Hiwot Fana Specialised University Hospital, Eastern Ethiopia	Hassen Abdi
Self-care practice and associated factors among hypertension patients in public health facilities in Harar Town, Eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study	Hassen Abdi
The rationale, design and implementation of the African Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis Registry Program, the IMHOTEP Study	Jacqui Cirota
Dietary Fiber Intake and Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors among Young South African Adults	Derrick Sekgala
Changes in socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity in South African women of childbearing age between 1998 and 2017: a decomposition analysis	Mweete Nglazi
The intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity from mothers to their offspring in South Africa, 2017: a decomposition analysis	Mweete Nglazi
Improving the capacity of Community Health Workers to prevent and manage Hypertension and Diabetes in Capricorn District, Limpopo province, in South Africa (A Case Study)	Tumiso  Malatji
A baseline assessment of chronic disease management at a Primary Health Care facilities in Limpopo, Capricorn District Report	Tumiso  Malatji
Cardiovascular disease risk perception in urban and rural Malawi	Stephen Kasenda
Screening strategies for hypertension: a systematic review	Bey-Marrie Schmidt
Supporting self-management among patients at risk of, and with newly diagnosed type-2 diabetes in a sub-urban township, South Africa: The SMART2D trial	Peter Delobelle
Characteristics of patients at risk of, and with newly diagnosed type-2 diabetes in a sub-urban township, South Africa: SMART2D baseline survey results	Mariam Hassen
Self-management of Type 2 diabetes and hypertension: barriers and solutions from patients and their health care providers	Tiny Masupe
The development, implementation and evaluation of a training intervention for primary care providers on brief behaviour change counselling, and assessment of the providers’ competency in delivering this counselling intervention	Zelra Malan
Priority areas identified by the World Health Organisation for addressing non-communicable diseases in the African region.	Selvan Naidoo
In producing evidence summaries to inform WHO policy briefs for the Africa region on non-communicable diseases, is there congruence with the Cochrane dissemination checklist.	Selvan Naidoo
Effect of exercise training on insulin sensitivity, hyperinsulinemia and ectopic fat in black South African women: A randomized controlled trial	Melony Fortuin-de Smidt
Foodways and food environments in low-income South African communities: citizen science and ethnography	Estelle Lambert
Comparison of urban and rural community understanding of cardiovascular disease risk in Ethiopia.	Kiya Kedir
Systematic Review of Genetic Factors in the Etiology of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in African Populations	Hannah Simba
Integration of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) screening and post-GDM prevention in primary care: lessons learned from the IINDIAGO project, and not learned from HIV	Jean Claude Mutabazi
Experiences of lifestyle change among women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM): A behavioural diagnosis using the COM-B model in a low-income setting	Katherine Murphy

 

Panel discussion – Evidence for Action: Where the rubber hits the road 

While the role of evidence for policy, practice and the public can be appreciated, its use and importance varies. This is because decision-making is inherently political. This gets even more complicated when research results or program data are at best controversial or unexpected, and at worst when they are manipulated and misrepresented by powerful actors. In the era of #fakenews, #antivaxx, and a conflation of morality with individual autonomy, this becomes an increasingly complex web of confusion. In the closing plenary, we highlight the importance of bridging the “know-do” gap and enhancing evidence for action.  Stories of how best to do this will be amplified by panelists comprising a variety of evidence-users: policymakers, journalists, ordinary citizens, and researchers. Audience members will be encouraged to engage with the panelists to share their experiences, and discuss strategies strengthening the role of research evidence on decision-making – at any level.

 

Nasreen Jessani (Chair): Introduction and how to narrow the gap between evidence and policy and practice.

Stellah Namatovu (Social scientist, Makerere University): The power of the police – multi-stakeholder engagement on injury research and policy in Uganda

Damaris Kiewiets (Community Liaison Officer, University of the Western Cape): Citizen engagement- amplifying public voice and advocacy in the quest for good governance decisions

George Claassen (Science journalist Stellenbosch University, Editor News24): Media – friend or foe? Quackery and fraudulent health messages

Sandhya Singh (Director of NCDs, National DoH): The evolution and use of evidence in South Africa’s policy decisions

Acknowledgement

The CEBHA+ project which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the Research Networks for Health Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa Funding Initiative.

 

For enquiries please email tracin@sun.ac.za