Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic and turnover intention: The moderating effect of employee work engagement by Theresa Obuobisa-Darko, Evans Sokro

“…Data were collected via a structured questionnaire through both hand deliveries of printed questionnaires and Google docs from 187 frontline employees in the Ghanaian public sector. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. …”
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Family rejection of non-hetero sexuality-Sexual orientation and behavior anonymity among sexual minority men in slum communities-BSGH 001. by Osman Wumpini Shamrock, Gamji Rabiu Abu-Ba'are, Edem Yaw Zigah, Amos Apreku, George Rudolph Kofi Agbemedu, Donte T Boyd, Gideon Adjaka, LaRon E Nelson

“…These findings contribute to understanding why SMM in Ghanaian slum communities choose to keep their sexual orientation anonymous. …”
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‘Thou shalt not worship idols’ by Timo Kallinen

“…The article looks at how different interpretations of religious rules are used by Ghanaian Christians and chiefs when debating the in/compatibility of traditional chieftaincy with Christianity. …”
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Ayi Kwei Armah’s Intellectuals of the African Renaissance by Fouad Mami

“…Ayi Kwei Armah is a living Ghanaian novelist and cultural activist. His life and body of novelistic experiments show a meticulous preoccupation with Africa’s present cultural crisis. …”
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THE ALLEVIATION OF VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY THROUGH STAPLE FOOD FORTIFICATION IN GHANA by Shu WANG, Wojciech J. FLORKOWSKI, Manjeet S. CHINNAN, Anna V.A. RESURRECCION, Daniel B. SARPONG

“…The results also reveal that the existing source of vitamin A from the food fortification program is insufficient for Ghanaian women to reach the WHO daily standard. Fortifying maize flour (in addition to already fortified vegetable oils and wheat flour), a staple, will largely alleviate the inadequate vitamin A intake among urban households.…”
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Positionality, ‘the field,’ and implications for knowledge production and research ethics in land change science by Heidi Hausermann, Janet Adomako

“…We examine how our positionalities – as a black, Ghanaian graduate student and a white, tenured professor – produce differential fieldwork relations. …”
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Doing it right to alleviate poverty: application of the sustainable food value chain development framework to Ghana’s poultry sector by Mavis Boimah, Craig Chibanda, Johanna Schott, Stephen Awuni

“…Results of our study highlight the poor economic, social, and environmental performance of the Ghanaian poultry sector. Moreover, weak vertical and horizontal coordination among actors in the value chain in addition to low commitment from supporting stakeholders emerge as the root causes of the challenges the sector faces. …”
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The dynamics of customer value and brand love among shoppers in emerging market by Hayford Amegbe, Charles Hanu, Nkululeko PraiseGod Zungu

“…An online questionnaire was used to elicited data from 484 Ghanaian shopping mall customers in Accra, using convenient sampling. …”
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Challenges in the diagnosis and management of a ruptured heterotopic gestation following ultrasound-guided embryo transfer in low resource settings: a case report by Ernest Oyeh, Samuel Ofori, Edem K. Hiadzi, Promise E. Sefogah

“…Case presentation We present the case of a 36-year-old Ghanaian woman who conceived following IVF and presented two weeks after confirmation of intrauterine gestation with sudden onset lower abdominal pain. …”
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“What support systems exist for “first-generation students in Ghana's higher education?” by Jacob Oppong Nkansah, Yusuf Oldac Ikbal, Abdul Wali Khan

“…This phenomenological study examined FGS's available and accessible support in Ghanaian higher education using social and cultural capital and ecological theories. …”
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Developing Cosmopolitanism Through Intercultural Mediation Activities: An After-School Digital Storytelling Project in Catalonia by Miaomiao Zhang

“…It focuses on intercultural mediation activities carried out in one of the early project sessions in which a young girl of Ghanaian origin mobilizes her previous life experience to mediate, for her local peers in Catalonia, understanding of a video produced by Ugandan youth. …”
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Principles of Christian Stewardship in Daniel 6:1-4 by Isaac Boaheng, Justice Korankye

“…These principles—including service and responsibility, accountability, and reward and punishment— are expected to deal with the issues of corruption, thievery, pilfering, negligence of duty, and the likes in the Ghanaian social, political and economic systems. The main thesis of the paper is that one’s faith must be expressed in the public sphere in response to issues of societal concern. …”
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Effective Communication during a Global Health Crisis: A Content Analysis of Presidential Addresses on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ghana by Prince Adu Gyamfi, Adwoa Sikayena Amankwah

“…Thus, this study utilized Parmer, Baur, Eroglu, Lubell, Prue, Reynold, and Weaver's (2016) seven crisis and emergency risk messaging best practices to qualitatively analyze fourteen speeches delivered by the Ghanaian President on the COVID-19 pandemic in the country to demonstrate how the speeches conveyed information about the pandemic to the public. …”
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Persistent Vulvar Itch Unresponsive to Treatment: A Case of Vulvar Schistosomiasis Caused by Schistosoma mansoni and a Brief Review of Literature by Anthony Gyening-Yeboah, Solomon E. Quayson

“…There is no reported case of vulvar schistosomiasis from Schistosoma mansoni in an immunocompetent or immunocompromised person in Ghanaian medical literature; however, there is a reported case of S. haematobium in an immunocompromised person. …”
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Progressive Memory Decline in a Patient With Atrial Septal Defect: Case Report and Literature Review by Yaw Amo Wiafe, Gordon Manu Amponsah, George Asafu Adjaye Frimpong, Isaac Kofi Owusu

“…We present a case of a 32-year-old Ghanaian man with history of ASD who presented with progressive memory loss with magnetic resonance imaging scan of the brain showing multiple infarcts, microvascular disease, and cerebral atrophy.…”
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Towards an Inclusive Pedagogy: Applying the Universal Design for Learning in an Introduction to History of Global Art Course in Ghana by Dickson Adom, Winston Kwame Abroampa, Richard Amoako, Cathy Mae Toquero, Steve Kquofi

“… This convergent parallel mixed methods study was aimed at addressing the lack of empirical studies in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as an inclusive pedagogy in the Ghanaian higher education context. The overarching objective was to find out whether UDL has the potential in improving the learning processes and learning outcomes of the diverse students reading a History of Global Art course. …”
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Budget Credibility and Global Surprises in Ghana: A Critical Reflection through PEFA Framework by Joseph Forson

“…Therefore, the integration of the Ghanaian economy into the global one does not in any way immune it from shocks brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war. …”
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Genome variation and evolution of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. by Jeffares, D, Pain, A, Berry, A, Cox, A, Stalker, J, Ingle, C, Thomas, A, Quail, M, Siebenthall, K, Uhlemann, A, Kyes, S, Krishna, S, Newbold, C, Dermitzakis, E, Berriman, M

“…In an effort to complement these studies with genome-wide data, we undertook shotgun sequencing of a Ghanaian clinical isolate (with fivefold coverage), the IT laboratory isolate (with onefold coverage) and the chimpanzee parasite P. reichenowi (with twofold coverage). …”

Gas-to-power market and investment incentive for enhancing generation capacity – an analysis of Ghana’s electricity sector by Fritsch, J, Poudineh, R

“…In light of the 2007 discovery of natural gas reserves in Ghanaian waters, this paper examines whether domestic gas could advance the performance of the electricity sector, and if so, how. …”

Genomic analysis of ST88 community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ghana by Grace Kpeli, Andrew H. Buultjens, Stefano Giulieri, Evelyn Owusu-Mireku, Samuel Y. Aboagye, Sarah L. Baines, Torsten Seemann, Dieter Bulach, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Ian R. Monk, Benjamin P. Howden, Gerd Pluschke, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Timothy Stinear

“…Results We show that Ghanaian ST88 forms a discrete MRSA lineage (harbouring SCCmec-IV [2B]). …”
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