Evaluating maternal death surveillance and response system in Sunyani Municipality of Bono region in Ghana from 2017-2021.

Introduction: Maternal death rates in Ghana have decreased overall but remain high in rural areas. The Maternal Death Surveillance and Response System (MDSR) aims to eliminate preventable maternal deaths effectively. However, its effectiveness is less pronounced at district and subdistrict levels than at national and regional levels.

SMS reminders for monitoring tuberculosis treatment among women in Greater Accra region, Ghana.

Tuberculosis (TB) disease has been of public health interest for decades. Its effect on women is more pronounced in their reproductive years. Nonadherence to treatment among people with TB undermines treatment outcomes and worsens the disease.

Adolescents' satisfaction with abortion services received and factors associated with satisfaction at reproductive health centres.

Aim: This study assessed adolescents' satisfaction with services received during their most recent abortion and the factors associated with satisfaction at reproductive health centres in the Greater Accra region of Ghana.

Design: A facility-based cross-sectional survey was used for this study.

Methods: Overall, 254 adolescent girls aged between 15 and 19 years, who had an abortion within 1 week of the study period were recruited for the study.

Determinants of sexual dysfunction in pregnancy in a large tertiary hospital in Ghana.

Objective: To determine the factors associated with sexual dysfunction in pregnancy.

Methods: A cross-sectional facility-based study using quantitative methods was carried out among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital from 14th May to 25th June 2018. Four hundred and twenty-seven married or cohabiting women who were at least eight weeks pregnant and have been living together with their partners for at least four weeks prior to the survey were consecutively recruited.

Are respectful maternity care (RMC) interventions effective in reducing intrapartum mistreatment against adolescents? A systematic review.

Unlabelled: Intrapartum mistreatment of women by health professionals is a widespread global public health challenge. It leads to a decreased quality of maternity care and is evinced to precipitate detrimental maternal and neonatal outcomes, especially among adolescents. Relatedly, research indicates that Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) interventions are especially effective in mitigating intrapartum mistreatment and improving birth outcomes.

Physician Experiences and Perceived Barriers to Providing Quality Infertility Care in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

High-quality, patient-centered care is essential to achieving equity and dignity for individuals with infertility, yet few studies have explored quality of infertility care in sub-Saharan Africa. We interviewed 13 non-specialist physicians and 2 medical school faculty to explore experiences in and perceptions of providing infertility care in Greater Accra, Ghana. We used a patient-centered infertility care model to inform our analysis and results.

Evidence on respectful maternity care for adolescents: a systematic review protocol.

Background: Intrapartum mistreatment of women is an ubiquitous public health and human rights challenge. The issue reportedly has severe maternal and neonatal outcomes including mortality, and generally leads to a decreased satisfaction with maternity care. Intrapartum mistreatment, despite being ubiquitous, indicates higher incidence amongst adolescent parturients who are simultaneously at a higher risk of maternal morbidity and mortality.

Promoting respectful maternity care for adolescents in Ghana: a quasi-experimental study protocol.

Background: Intra-partum mistreatment by healthcare providers remains a global public health and human rights challenge. Adolescents, who are typically younger, poorer and less educated have been found to be disproportionately exposed to intra-partum mistreatment. In Ghana, maternal mortality remains a leading cause of death among adolescent females, despite increasing patronage of skilled birth attendance in health facilities.

Adherence to the recommended timing of focused antenatal care in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana.

Introduction: The proportion of antenatal attendants in Ghana who had at least four antenatal visits increased from 78% in 2008 to 87% in 2014. However, it is not known whether these visits followed the recommended timing of focused antenatal clinic attendance in Ghana. We sought to assess the adherence to the clinic schedule and its determinants in the Accra Metropolis.

Factors influencing unmet need for family planning among Ghanaian married/union women: a multinomial mixed effects logistic regression modelling approach.

Background: Unmet need for family planning is high (30%) in Ghana. Reducing unmet need for family planning will reduce the high levels of unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that are associated with unmet need for family planning to help scale up the uptake of family planning services in Ghana.

Acceptability and stakeholders perspectives on feasibility of using trained psychologists and health workers to deliver school-based sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents in urban Accra, Ghana.

Background: Adolescent sexual and reproductive health is recognized as a key developmental issue of international concern. However, adolescents' access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services is largely inadequate in sub-Saharan Africa. With increasing enrollment in schools, this could be an avenue to reach adolescents with SRH information and services.

Factors influencing uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulphadoxine pyrimethamine in Sunyani Municipality, Ghana.

Introduction: Malaria continues to pose a public health challenge in Ghana particularly in pregnant women. Ghana adopted intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy policy using sulphadoxine pyrimethamine. Despite its implementation, its coverage still remains low.

Adolescents' Responses to an Unintended Pregnancy in Ghana: A Qualitative Study.

Study Objective: To investigate the experiences and perceptions of adolescents who have experienced a recent pregnancy and undergone a termination of pregnancy.

Design: A vignette-based focus group approach was used to have adolescents reflect on scenarios that happen to others during an unwanted pregnancy.

Setting: The study was conducted in public health facilities in the 3 major urban areas of Ghana-Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale.

Monitoring malaria using health facility based surveys: challenges and limitations.

Background: Health facility data are more readily accessible for operational planning and evaluation of disease control programmes. The importance, potential challenges and limitations of using facility based survey as an alternative tool for monitoring changes in local malaria epidemiology were examined.

Methods: The study involved six areas within the administrative divisions of The Gambia.

How women are treated during facility-based childbirth: development and validation of measurement tools in four countries - phase 1 formative research study protocol.

Background: Every woman has the right to dignified, respectful care during childbirth. Recent evidence has demonstrated that globally many women experience mistreatment during labour and childbirth in health facilities, which can pose a significant barrier to women attending facilities for delivery and can contribute to poor birth experiences and adverse outcomes for women and newborns. However there is no clear consensus on how mistreatment of women during childbirth in facilities is defined and measured.