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An Assessment of Female Prisoners’ Perception of the Accessibility of Quality Healthcare: A Survey in the Kumasi Central Prisons, Ghana

Sarpong, A. A.; Otupiri, E.; Yeboah‑Awudzi, K.; Osei‑Yeboah, J.; Berchie, G. O.; Ephraim, R. K. D. (University of Cape Coast, 2015-05)

Background: Accessibility of quality healthcare across the globe has generated a lot of attention among public health practitioners. Aim: This study explored the background characteristics of female prisoners and how it ...
Adverse Obstetric Outcomes among Women with Placental Malaria from Peri-Urban Ghana

Siakwa, Mate; Kpikpitse, Dzigbodi; Azanu, Wisdom; Ampofo, Evelyn A.; Doe, Patience F.; Asamoah, Isaac; Kuganab-Lem, R. B.; Ebu, Nancy I. (University of Cape Coast, 2016-01)

Placental malaria (PM) poses a major threat to both the mother and the unborn child. Maternal anemia and intrauterine growth retardation are major consequences of PM. The risk of dying from malaria is also higher among ...
A Systematic Review of the Mental Health of Orphans and Vulnerable Children within the Context of HIV/AIDS in Africa International Journal of Psychiatry Corresponding author

Doku, Paul Narh; Akohene, Kofi Mensah; Ananga, Mark Kwame; Debrah, Timothy Pritchard (University of Cape Coast, 2019-09)

Global information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic indicates the existence of an ever-increasing number of orphans and vulnerable children. It has been suggested that by the end of 2020 there will be more than 25 million AIDS ...
A Qualitative Study of the Communication and Information Needs of People with Learning Disabilities and Epilepsy with Physicians, Nurses and Carers

Ninnoni, Jerry Paul K. (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

Living with a chronic condition such as epilepsy can have a debilitating effect on the individual and their carers. Managing epilepsy among people with learning disabilities may present a challenge because of limited c ...
A Paradox: Midwives’ Experiences of Attending a Birth Resulting in Maternal Death in a Ghanaian Context

Abraham, Susanna Aba; Berchie, Gifty Osei; Druye, Andrew Adjei; Prempeh, Charles Agyemang; Okantey, Christiana; Agyei-Ayensu, Kweku (University of Cape Coast, 2020-06)

In a lower-middle income country, such as Ghana, maternal death still occurs even in case of providing skilled perinatal care. The impact of maternal death on the family, community, and society has been largely ...
A Narrative Inquiry into Women’s Perception and Experience of Labour Pain: A Study in the Western Region of Ghana

Ampofo, Evelyn Asamoah; Caine, Vera (University of Cape Coast, 2015-10)

There is a general notion among Ghanaian women that the labour is a painful process that must be endured. Regardless of this notion, labour pain experience overwhelms most women. The aim of this study was to inquire into ...
A Five-Year Neonatal Mortality Trend in a Ghanaian Teaching Hospital after the Implementation of Strategies to Achieve the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) 4

Siakwa, M.; Kpikpitse, D.; Laryea, T.; Ankobil, A.; Dare, S.; Ebu, N. (University of Cape Coast, 2014-09)

Various strategies have been put in place in Ghana to achieve the United Nations millennium development goal 4 (MDG 4) on reducing childhood mortality rates by two-thirds by 2015. Global under-five mortality rate is ...
Using the Activity Method to Enhance Students’ Performance in Energy Transformation

Adu-Gyamfi, Kenneth (University of Cape Coast, 2014-01)

The study sought to investigate the effects of Activity Method (AM) on 53 Junior High School students’ performance in energy transformation at the Sekyere South District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The study investigated ...
Trends in Performance of WASSCE Candidates in the Science and Mathematics in Ghana: Perceived Contributing Factors and the Way Forward

Abreh, Might Kojo; Owusu, Kofi Acheaw; Amedahe, Francis Kodzo (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

The trends in students’ performance in science and mathematics at secondary school level were examined within a decade-long interval in Ghana. Using West African Examinations Council (WAEC) data from approximately 20% of ...
Students’ Difficulties in IUPAC Naming of Organic Compounds

Adu-Gyamfi, Kenneth; Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Appiah, Joseph Yaw (University of Cape Coast, 2017-08)

This paper reports on a study that diagnosed the difficulties of chemistry students in using IUPAC nomenclature to name organic compounds. This was done by determining the knowledge level of students in IUPAC nomenclature ...
Students’ Alternative Conceptions Associated with Application of Redox Reactions in Everyday Life

Adu-Gyamfi, Kenneth; Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey (University of Cape Coast, 2019-06)

The study explored chemistry students’ alternative conceptions associated with application of the processes of oxidation and reduction in real life context. As part of a design-based research approach, a case-study design ...
Senior High School Students’ Difficulties in Writing Structural Formulae of Organic Compounds from IUPAC Names

Adu-Gyamfi, Kenneth; Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Appiah, Joseph Yaw (University of Cape Coast, 2012-10)

The difficulties of the Chemistry students from Kumasi Metropolis in writing structural formulae of organic compounds were studied using crosssectional survey design. The quantitative survey used percentages and graphs ...
Procedural Problem-Solving Approaches Employed by Students in Learning Extensive and Intensive Quantities of Change of State

Aboagye, Godwin Kwame; Graham, Emmanuel Osuae (University of Cape Coast, 2018-12)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the procedural problem-solving approaches students employ when solving computational problems that involve extensive and intensive quantities of change of state. A sample of 240 ...
Primary and Junior High School Mathematics and Science Teachers’ Views on Teaching in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana

Davis, Ernest Kofi; Beccles, Christopher; Intsiful, Etheldreda C. (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

This paper draws on conceptualization of pupil-centred and teacher-centred methods to explore the views of primary school and junior high school (JHS) mathematics and science teachers on teaching. The purpose of the study ...
Pre-Service Teachers’ Conception of an Effective Science Teacher: The Case of Initial Teacher Training

Adu-Gyamfi, Kenneth (University of Cape Coast, 2019-09)

The purpose of this study was to find out pre-service teachers’ conceptual understanding of an effective science teacher. A total of 100 pre-service teachers from two unique colleges of education in a municipal assembly ...
Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitude Towards Application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a Pedagogical Tool in Teacher Education

Oparah, Justina Stella; Ihechukwu, Nwoke Bright; Nwakaego, Nwoga Anayochi; Uchechukwu, Ugwu Donatus (University of Cape Coast, 2017-10)

The study investigated pre-service teachers’ attitude towards application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a pedagogical tool in teacher education. A sample of 365 of pre-service teachers of Alvan ...
Physical Science Students’ Perceptions of Their Chemistry Classroom Environment and the Students’ Resultant Attitudes towards Chemistry

Amponsah, Kwaku Darko; Aboagye, Godwin Kwame; Kumassah, Elliot Kossi; Mensah, Alfred (University of Cape Coast, 2018-06)

This paper investigates physical sciences students’ perceptions of classroom environment and their attitude towards chemistry in South African High Schools’ in the Ximhungwe circuit of the Bohlabela district in the ...
Motivation to Become a Teacher among Preservice Teachers in Colleges of Education in Ghana

Davis, Ernest Kofi; Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Beccles, Christopher; Ayebi-Arthur, Kofi (University of Cape Coast, 2019-12)

Ghana is among developing countries that use incentives to attract preservice teachers to train as early childhood, primary and junior high school teachers in Colleges of Education. This study sought to explore the ...
Mapping the Incidence of School Dropouts: A Case Study of Communities in Northern Ghana

Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Adu‐Yeboah, Christine (University of Cape Coast, 2009-03)

This paper examines the issue of school dropout in six communities in the Savelugu-Nanton District in the Northern Region of Ghana. The study focused on 89 children (64 boys and 25 girls) aged 7–16 years, who had dropped ...
Lack of Interest in School Science among Non-Science Students at the Senior High School Level

Adu-Gyamfi, Kenneth (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

This study investigated the factors that contribute to the non-science students’ lack of interest in school science through the use of a 27-item questionnaire. This assisted in comparing the male and female non-science ...

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