Impact of COVID-19 Response Strategies on Frontline Health Workers' Motivation: A Case Study in Two Regional Referral Hospitals in Ghana and Uganda.

Background: Several health systems developed interventions and strategies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of which were broad-based, some of which focused on service delivery, and others on frontline health workers. The goal of this study was to see how COVID-19 interventions affected the motivation of frontline health workers in Ghana and Uganda.

Methods: The research was undertaken during the period of May to July 2020, coinciding with the initial three months of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Implementation of the World Health Organization's QualityRights initiative in Ghana: an overview.

Background: Globally, human rights violations experienced by persons with psychosocial, intellectual or cognitive disabilities continue to be a concern. The World Health Organization's (WHO) QualityRights initiative presents practical remedies to address these abuses. This paper presents an overview of the implementation of the initiative in Ghana.

The treatment of mental illness in faith-based and traditional healing centres in Ghana: perspectives of service users and healers.

Background: The maltreatment of people with mental illness in Ghana's traditional and faith-based healing centres, including shackling, flogging, and forced fasting, has been documented by numerous sources. Such treatment is potentially traumatising and may exacerbate mental health problems. Despite widespread use, few studies have focused on experiences and characteristics of people who seek traditional healing for mental illness or healers' perspectives treatment of these conditions.

Stakeholders' perspectives about the impact of training and sensitization of traditional and spiritual healers on mental health and illness: A qualitative evaluation in Ghana.

Background: Prayer camps and traditional healers have emerged recently as alternative sources of mental health care in Ghana. To increase their knowledge and collaboration between formal and informal mental health care providers, training and sensitization was organized for them.

Aims: This study aimed at assessing beneficiaries' views about the impact of this intervention.