Financial strain and resilience: a qualitative exploration of parental perspectives on caring for children with sickle cell disease in Ghana.

Background: In Ghana, nearly one in four (25%) of the population are sickle cell disease carriers. Furthermore, 2% of all babies born (20 for every 1000 live births) has sickle cell disease. However, little is known about how parents negotiate the financial challenges facing parents of a child with sickle cell disease.

Nursing Education for Sustainable Development: A Concept Analysis.

Background: Sustainability represents an increasingly vital yet inconsistently implemented topic in nursing education. Formal concept analysis can promote unified conceptualisation to inform sustainability integration in nursing curriculums.

Objective: Analyse the concept of 'nursing education for sustainable development' using the Walker and Avant framework to clarify meaning and application in nursing programmes.

Patient perspective on barriers in type 2 diabetes self-management: A qualitative study.

Aim: To explore the perceived barriers in Type 2 Diabetes care among patients with diabetes. Design The study adopted a qualitative exploratory-descriptive design.

Methods: A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data from fifteen (15) purposively sampled patients with Type 2 Diabetes at a primary level health facility in the Bono East region.

Does the gender of nurses matter to patients? A qualitative analysis of gender preferences of patients.

Background: This study argues that the gender of a nurse could give patients the emotional and psychological support they need in their healing process. Nonetheless, in many developing countries, these intricate preferences of patients are usually ignored due to poor staffing and logistical capacities of health facilities. As a contribution to this professional and operation gap, this paper explores patients' preference for nurses' gender in health care at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana.

Narratives of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients regarding the influence of social issues on diabetes self-management: Implications for patient care.

Aim: To explore the perspectives of individuals living with type 2 diabetes mellitus on the influence of social factors on diabetes self-management in Ghanaian context.

Design: Hermeneutic phenomenological approach to qualitative research was used.

Method: A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data from 27 participants who were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Perception of nurses on the use of mobile phone text messaging for the management of diabetes mellitus in rural Ghana.

Aim: This study aims to explore the perception of nurses on the use of mobile phone SMS for managing diabetes in rural Ghana.

Design: Exploratory Descriptive Qualitative Design.

Methods: Purposive sampling was used to recruit (13) participants relative to data saturation after ethical clearance (REDACTED); using a semi-structured interview guide.

The Use of Religious Capital as a Coping Strategy in Self-care by Type 2 Diabetes Patients in a Ghanaian Hospital.

Given the importance Ghanaians attribute to spirituality and religiosity in terms of disease causation and management, this study explored the use of religious capital as a coping strategy by individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus in self-care at the Techiman Holy Family Hospital Diabetes Clinic in the Bono East Region of Ghana. An exploratory descriptive qualitative research design was employed for the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of twenty-seven (27) individuals recruited from the diabetes clinic.

Nutritional self-care practices and skills of patients with diabetes mellitus: A study at a tertiary hospital in Ghana.

Introduction: Nutritional management decreases and/or prevents the complications and deaths associated with diabetes mellitus. However, the majority of patients living with diabetes do not engage in optimal nutritional management of diabetes because they see it as the most difficult aspect of managing the condition. This study aimed to explore and describe the practices and skills on nutritional management of diabetes mellitus among patients living with diabetes attending a Ghanaian hospital.

Development of nurse education in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Ghana: From undergraduate to doctoral programmes.

Doctoral programmes in nursing have a long history in the US where traditional research based PhDs and more clinically based doctoral programmes are common. In the rest of the world PhDs are better accepted though professional doctorates with a thesis component are common in the UK. In countries with newly established or planned doctoral programmes in nursing the research PhD seems the degree of choice.

Genetic counselling in sickle cell disease: views of single young adults in Ghana.

Sickle cell disease is a chronic inherited blood disorder affecting many people globally as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, the disease has a prevalence of 2% with carrier rate of 20-25% among the populace. Genetic counselling is a cost-effective strategy in reducing the burden of this disorder.

Non-application of the nursing process at a hospital in Accra, Ghana: lessons from descriptive research.

Background: Registered nurses in Ghana are trained to plan the care that they provide to their patients in a systematic and organized manner. This scientific approach to care is known as the nursing process. There is evidence that the nursing process is not being practised by professional nurses in Ghana, as expected.

Factors that influence the clinical utilization of the nursing process at a hospital in Accra, Ghana.

Background: The nursing process is a tool that is recommended for use by all professional nurses working in Ghana, in order to provide nursing care. However, there is currently a limited use of this tool by nurses in Ghana. The purpose of this research study was to explore the various factors that influence the utilization of this nursing process.