The Government of Ghana pays little or no attention to mental health care in the country, a situation that has led to poor service delivery in the three major psychiatric hospitals in Ghana. The implementation of the Ghana Mental Act of 2012 has also been faced with major challenges with no...
Routine monitoring of vital signs was conducted for a higher percentage of the patients in this study, consistent with findings from psychiatric hospitals in Ghana [46]. Vital signs, such as blood pressure, are crucial for assessing the immediate health status of patients with SMI, who are at ...
Economic cost and quality of life of family caregivers of schizophrenic patients attending psychiatric hospitals in Ghana. BMC Health Serv Res. 2017;17(Suppl 2):697. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Souza ALR, Guimarães RA, de Araújo Vilela D, de Assis RM, de Almeida Cavalca...
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These views about the “typical stressors” such as exposure to dying patients and situations where interventions are futile because of lack of resources endemic to public hospitals in Uganda have likely contributed to a lack of curriculum development to support students in these situations [37]. ...
Global mental health applies the principles of global health to the field of mental health. Over the years, global mental health has advocated the cause of increasing access to mental health care through promoting the prioritization of mental health in g
Results Key components of the MHIS intervention involved the introduction of a redesigned patient registration form, entry into computers for analysis every 2 months by clinical managerial staff, and utilization of data in hospital management meetings in three psychiatric hospitals in Ghana; and the ...
Policies should be in place detailing the role of the hospital pharmacist in psychiatric hospitals in Ghana so as to enhance pharmaceutical care of patients admitted at the psychiatric hospitals since studies have shown that the presence of the pharmacist on the ward improves accuracy of drug history...
[4,5]. In addition, all three public psychiatric hospitals are located along the southern coast of Ghana. Although in recent years small psychiatric units have been set up in most of the ten regional hospitals across Ghana, these are invariably located in the urban/semi-urban towns of those...
Ghana has three public psychiatric hospitals with 1322 beds [3, 4], all in the south of the country [5], but there are 10 community inpatient psychiatric units [6]; however, these are all located towards the south of the country. Five of these are government-owned, whereas five are ...