Simelane, Ganyani Lizzie (DCur)
Ganyani Lizzie Simelane holds a Diploma in General Nursing, Community Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing and Midwifery from Chris Hani Baragwanath Nursing College, and a BCur degree in Education and Administration from the University of Johannesburg. She obtained a Master’s degree in Psychiatric Nursing Science from the University of Johannesburg and published her articles in accredited journals. She is currently a Manager in a Psychiatric Department at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. Disorders of sex development (DSD) are a group of congenital medical conditions where reproductive organs and genitalia do not develop as expected. Parents find this frustrating, confusing and unacceptable. The purpose of the study was to develop a model to assist psychiatric nurses to facilitate the mental health of parents and their adolescent boys who have DSD. Fieldwork was conducted within a phenomenological approach with mothers and their adolescent boys with DSD to elicit their experiences. The central concepts that were identified from the data of the fieldwork was “fa cilitation of effective intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships of mothers and their adolescent boys with DSD”. A model was developed based on the central concepts as well as guidelines to implement the model. The unique contribution of this model was understanding the experiences of the mothers and their adolescent boys with DSD, the model and guidelines and implementation thereof.
Supervisor: Prof MA Temane Co-Supervisor: Prof M Poggenpoel Co-Supervisor: Prof CPH Myburgh
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