Persoonlikeinligtingvirwebtuiste / Personal information for webpage
Naam / Name: Ashraf Kagee
Kwalifikasie / Qualification: PhD, MPH.
Pos / Post: Distinguished Professor
Onderrigspesialisasie / Lecturing specialization
Quantitative and qualitative research methods
Psychopathology
Cognitive therapy
Navorsingspesialisasie / Research specialization
Health Psychology, including health behaviors, medication adherence, common mental disorders, psychosocial aspects of living with a chronic illness, scale development, stress and trauma, refugee mental health, scientific thinking among psychologists and psychology students.
Spesifieke studies wat tans aan die gang is / Specific studies currently in progress
Common mental disorders among persons seeking HIV testing
Psychosocial aspects of breast cancer treatment
Cognitive therapy to enhance adherence to antiretroviral therapy
Moontlikeonderwerpevirnuwe student / Possible topics for future students:
Idioms of distress in various socio-cultural settings
Intervention studies to enhance medication adherence among persons with various chronic illnesses
Descriptive and intervention studies that examine depression, anxiety and quality of life among cancer patients
Scale development studies pertaining to health behaviours
Dienslewering / Service delivery:
Board of Trustees at the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture
Research and clinical capacity building at the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Palestine.
Die doel van my dienslewering is om / The aims of my service delivery are to:
Build research and clinical capacity in NGOs
Geselekteerdepublikasie (Laaste 5 jaar) / Selected publication (Last 5 years):
1.Magidson, JE., Saal, W., Nel, A., Remmert, JE., & Kagee, A. (in press). Relationship between depressive symptoms, alcohol use, and antiretroviral therapy adherence among HIV-infected clinic attending patients in South Africa. Journal of Health Psychology.
2.Moodaley, A. & Kagee, A., (in press). Experiences of social support among persons seeking HIV testing. Journal of Health Psychology.
3.Kagee, A., Saal, W., De Villiers, L., Sefatsa, M., & Bantjes, J. (in press). The prevalence of common mental disorders among South Africans seeking HIV testing. AIDS and Behavior.
4.De Wet, H., & Kagee, A. (in press). Perceived barriers and facilitators to HIV testing in South African communities. Journal of Health Psychology Kagee, A., Bantjes, J., Saal, W. (in press). Prevalence of traumatic events and symptoms of PTSD among persons receiving an HIV test. AIDS and Behavior.
5.Kagee, A., Saal., W., & Bantjes, J. (2017). Distress, depression and anxiety among persons seeking HIV testing. AIDS Care, 29, 280-284.
6.Kagee, A., Coetzee, B., Steel, H. (2016). Quality of life among South African patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the Western Cape Province. South African Journal of Psychology, 46, 376-389.
7.Evangeli, M., & Kagee, A. (2016). A model of caregiver paediatric HIV disclosure decision-making. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 21, 338-353.
8.Kagee, A., Coetzee, B., Saal, W., & Nel, A. (2015). Using the Beck Anxiety Inventory among South Africans living with HIV: Exploratory and higher order factor analysis. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 27, 315-321.
9.Kagee, A. & Breet, E. (2015). Psychologists’ endorsement of empirically unsupported statements in psychology: Nocheninmal. South African Journal of Psychology, 45, 397-409.
10.Dudhia, R. & Kagee, A. (2015). Experiences of participating in an antiretroviral treatment adherence club. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 20, 488-494.
11.Kagee, A. (2014). South African psychology twenty years of democracy: Criticality, social development, and relevance. South African Journal of Psychology, 44, 350-363. DOI: 10.1177/0081246314534147.
12.Maercker, A., Brewin, CR, Bryant, RA, Cloitre, M., Reed, GM. van Ommeren, M., Humayun, A. Jones, L. Kagee, A. Llosa, AE, Rousseau, C., Somasundaram, D., Souza, R., Suzuki, Y., Weissbecker, I., Wessely, S., First, MB, & Saxena, S. Proposals for mental disorders specifically associated with stress in the ICD-11.(2013). The Lancet, 381, 1683-1685.
Kongresbywoning / Conferences:
1.Kagee, A. How salient are symptoms of posttraumatic stress among South African former political detainees? Paper presented at the 6th Gaza Community Mental Health Conference, Gaza Palestine, 19-20 2016.
2.Steenkamp, J., Roomaney, R., & Kagee, A. Predictors of burnout among South African HIV nurses. Poster presented at the annual conference of the British Psychological Association - Division of Health Psychology, London, United Kingdom, 16-18 September 2015. Citation poster session – Highest rated poster abstracts submitted to the conference.
3.N.Willis, A.Kagee, W.Mavhu, C. Wogrin, A.Mutsinze, E.Gwenzi. “When people see me smiling, it’s a fake smile. I’m hiding all the pain I feel inside”: An exploratory, expressive arts study of the experiences of HIV positive adolescents with depression. Poster presented at the 18th International Conference on AIDS and STI's in Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe, 29 Nov-3 Dec2015, (not present).
4.Saal, W., De Villiers, L., Sefatsa, M., Bantjes, J., & Kagee, A. The prevalence of common mental disorders among persons seeking HIV testing in South Africa. Poster presented at the 12th International AIDS Impact conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 28 to 31 July 2015.
5.Roomaney, R. & Kagee, A. Living with endometriosis” What do patients need? Paper presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Grahamstown, South Africa, 12-15 July 2015.
6.Saal, W., De Villiers, L. Sefatsa, M., Bantjes, J. & Kagee, A. Major depression among persons seeking HIV testing. Paper presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Grahamstown, South Africa, 12-15 July 2015.
7.Hunt, X., Nespola, A., Kagee, A. Examining the relationship between sensitivity to reward and diet in a South African student sample. Poster presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Grahamstown, South Africa, 12-15 July 2015.
8.De Wet, A., Swartz, L., Lesch, A., Kagee, A., Kafaar, Z. On the edge: Boundary management in community engagement in HIV vaccine trials. Paper presented at the 9th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology, Grahamstown, South Africa, 12-15 July 2015.
9.De Wet, A., Swartz, L., Lesch, A., Kagee., A. & Kafaar, Z. Evaluating an HIV vaccine research community engagement programme at an HIV prevention research centre in the Western Cape. Poster presented at the Afri-Can Forum 2, Johannesburg, South Africa, 16-18 February, 2015.
10.De Wet, A., van Wyk, S., Lesch, A., Kagee, A. Enhancing academic literacy skills in an undergraduate psychology module. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference on the scholarship of teaching and learning, Stellenbosch, 28 and 29 October 2014.