Publications by authors named "Godfred Odei Boateng"
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and control measures adopted by countries globally can lead to stress and anxiety. Investigating the coping strategies to this unprecedented crisis is essential to guide mental health intervention and public health policy. This study examined how people are coping with the COVID-19 crisis in Ghana and identify factors influencing it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent research suggests that Zambian women face an increasing risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) within marital relationships. Married women's perceived ability to negotiate safer sex or adopt self-efficacy practices is recognized as critical in preventing new infections within marriage. Yet women's self-efficacy practices, such as requesting condom use or refusing sex within marriage, are influenced by individual and context-specific factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Although many studies have consistently found that early-childhood adversities are important risk factors for physical and mental health problems later in adulthood, few have examined the association between early-childhood adversities and troubled sleep. The objective of this study was to examine the association between early-childhood adversities and troubled sleep among adult Canadians.
Methods: Data for this paper (N = 19,349) were obtained from Statistics Canada's 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health (CCHS-MH).
Objective: This study sought to examine the risk factors associated with hypertension among the elderly in Ghana. We focused on the association between chronic diseases, socioeconomic factors, and being hypertensive.
Method: Data for the study were drawn from Wave 1 of the 2007/2008 Ghana Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE).