Alberta YEMOTSOO Lomotey

• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that over 463 million people are living with Diabetes mellitus which is likely to be doubled by the year 2045 meaning 55000 new cases daily. Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) accounts for over 90% of these cases. The situation is worse in Africa due to the poor diagnostic systems. In Ghana, the conditio...

Maternal healthcare providers are key stakeholders in safeguarding maternal and newborn health. This study employed a descriptive phenomenological design to explore the experiences of maternal healthcare providers who contracted the novel coronavirus disease, known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Ghana. A purposive sample of seven materna...

Aim To assess community awareness, knowledge and perception of the malaria vaccine. Design A descriptive cross‐sectional survey. Methods Multistage sampling was adopted in recruiting 400 participants. A structured questionnaire designed based on study objectives guided data collection. Results Participants were 18–47 years with a mean age of 30...

Background Pregnant women are among the most vulnerable and suffer the most during pandemics, according to earlier studies. Pregnant women had to seek healthcare for both themselves and their unborn child(ren) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was unprecedented. Pregnant women’s psychosocial experiences during pandemics are crucial since...

Background: The health and safety of people are often endangered during emergencies and disasters. Efficient emergency management systems ensure that mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery actions exist to preserve the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Failure to carry out appropriate responses can have adverse consequences for...

Background Malaria is a disease of public health concern and in endemic areas, pregnant women and children under-five years are vulnerable to the disease. The introduction of the pilot program of a malaria vaccine for children under-five years in Ghana is an intervention to further reduce the burden of the disease. However, the availability of the...

Background Women seeking fertility treatment face myriad challenges that they must adapt and adjust to daily. This aimed at exploring the experiences and coping strategies of such persons in the Kumasi. Metropolis. Methods A qualitative approach was employed and a purposive sampling technique was used to select 19 participants. A semi-structured i...

Background: Patient advocacy at the emergency department is stressful and cumbersome as a result of the increasing patient-to-nurse ratio and high patient turnovers. It is also unclear what patient advocacy entails and the experiences of patient advocacy in a resource-constrained emergency department. This is significant because advocacy underpins...

Aim: The objective of the study was to determine the clinical factors associated with knowledge and self-care practice among adults living with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Design: Descriptive cross-sectional design. Methods: A convenience sample of 330 participants was recruited over 3-months in 2018 and data were collected using a structured instrum...

Elective caesarean sections (CS) that have medical indications contribute to better pregnancy outcomes but women have to consent for the procedure to be performed within reasonable time limits for the desired outcomes. This study aimed to determine the factors that influence women's decision-making and the duration of the decision-making process to...

Aim: To assess the perception of nursing students on medical errors. Design: A descriptive cross-sectional survey. Method: Data were collected from March-April 2019 in a university in Ghana from two hundred (200) students using simple random sampling and analysed with SPSS version 21. Results: Mean age of respondents was 22.64 years. Medicat...

The goal of Ghana's health insurance scheme is to achieve universal coverage. Despite NHIS' benefits to children, not all children in Ghana are covered. This study investigates the sociodemographic covariates of nonenrolment onto the national health insurance scheme among children in Ghana. We used the child dataset of the 2017/18 Ghana Multiple In...

Background: Children’s nurses’ knowledge of pain affects their pain management practices. Even though poor knowledge and attitudes have been reported in several studies, most were carried out in developed settings. However, little has been reported on the management of paediatric pain by nurses in resource-limited settings such as in sub-Saharan Af...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a nurse-led mobile phone call intervention on glycemic management and adherence to self-management practices among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Ghana. Methods This was a pilot randomized controlled trial to compare diabetes care as usual to a m...

Background Elective caesarean section rates are on the rise and socioeconomic status, perceptions of safety, cultural and social influences are contributory factors. Inspite of the benefits of medically-indicated caesarean section, some women refuse this due to a complexity of factors. This study aimed at determining the factors that influence wome...

Objectives To improve childbirth experiences for childbearing women in healthcare facilities in low-and-middle-income countries, it is important to implement a cost-effective intervention to change the culture of disrespect and abuse in maternity care. Thus, we explored the feasibility of using four Respectful Maternity Care Modules in a training p...

Introduction: The nature and scope of emergency nursing exposes nurses to a wide array of patient populations with rapidly changing and unexpected clinical conditions, sophisticated logistics and procedures. Hence, emergency centre (EC) nurses ought to be ready to face diverse clinical challenges and deliver care to patients in a timely cost-effec...

Aim: To describe the lived experiences of mothers with preterm babies at a Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) of a tertiary hospital. Design: A descriptive phenomenological approach. Method: Ten mothers were purposively sampled during the month of May, 2017 to describe their experiences of having preterm babies. Recorded in‐depth individual interviews were...

Background The challenges and predictors of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) have been examined in many parts of the world. Considering the socio-cultural dynamics and the few research studies in Ghana, the factors that hinder and predict EBF practice in other countries may be different in the Ghanaian setting. The study therefore sought to assess the...