Maternal and Non-maternal Caregivers’ Practices in Drug Administration to Children during Illness

Owusu, Samuel Asiedu; Owusu, Rebecca Asiedu; Hampshire, Kate

doi:10.1080/13575279.2019.1664986

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“…In the process, some external affiliates have been contacted by both CHNs and clients in reciprocal manner to relay private health information. Although some clients make decisions on choices of service providers for varied reasons27 including avoidance of stigmatisation,28 these private decisions may hazardously become public through the widespread utlisation of informal mHealth methods in Ghana.…”

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Ethical implications of the widespread use of informal mHealth methods in Ghana

Owusu

2022

J Med Ethics

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BackgroundInformal mHealth is widely used by community health nurses in Ghana to extend healthcare delivery services to clients who otherwise might have been excluded from formal health systems or would experience significant barriers in their quest to access formal health services. The nurses use their private mobile phones or devices to make calls to their clients, health volunteers, colleagues or superiors. These phone calls are also reciprocal in nature. Besides, the parties exchange or share other health data and information through text messages, pictures, videos or voice clips. There are some ethical dimensions that are inherent in these practices that ought to be critically scrutinised by bioethicists.ObjectiveThe author has argued in this paper that informal mHealth at large scale adoption in Ghana is associated with some bioethical challenges.MethodsThis essay was largely based on an analysis of an empirical study published by Hampshire et al in 2021 on the use of informal mHealth methods in Ghana.ResultsWidespread adoption of Informal mHealth in Ghana is associated with privacy invasion of both the nurses and their clients, breaches confidentiality of the parties, discredits the validity of informed consent processes and may predispose the nurses to some other significant aggregated harms.ConclusionThe author affirms his partial support for a formalised adoption process of informal mHealth in Ghana but has reiterated that the current ethical challenges associated with informal mHealth in Ghana cannot escape all the debilitating bioethical challenges, even if it is formalised.

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Ethical implications of the widespread use of informal mHealth methods in Ghana

Owusu

2022

J Med Ethics

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“…The intimate nature and complexity related to the care of children is the first such theme. The maternal and non-maternal caregiving practices of drug administration are considered in a small scale in-depth qualitative study by Asiedu Owusu et al (2019). The paper explores the practices of drug administration in the home environment and how such practices vary between both maternal and non-maternal caregivers.…”

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Mooney

2021

Child Care in Practice

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“…5 Moreover, working parents have additional stressors and most often leave little or no time for meaningful parent-child interaction which shapes the outlook of children on life. 6 The demands of parenting are such that the partnership that marriage provides is essential for raising children. That is not to say that this does not come with its own challenges such as conflict as a result of, for example, differing opinions about how children should be cared for or raised.…”

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“… 5 Moreover, working parents have additional stressors and most often leave little or no time for meaningful parent-child interaction which shapes the outlook of children on life. 6 …”

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Parenting practices and family relationships during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ghana

Owusu

Ekumah

Kodom

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J. Public Health Afr.

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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been far reaching across almost every sphere of life. Families, which are the basic units of society, have not been spared the ravages of the pandemic. Changes in family daily routines as a result of COVID-19 can affect spousal relationships, parenting and childcare practices. However, the extent to which the pandemic has affected parenting practices and family relationships in Ghana is not known. The goal of this study was to assess how parenting practices and family relationships have been influenced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. Data for this paper was drawn from an online questionnaire response from 463 participants in Ghana as a subset analysis from a multi-country study on personal and family coping system with COVID-19 pandemic in the global south. The mean score for pre-COVID-19 relationship with partner (36.86) was higher (p<0.0001) than the mean score for during COVID-19 relationship with partner (35.32) indicating that COVID-19 has had negative influence on relationships. The mean score for pre-COVID-19 parenting (32.78) was higher (p<0.0001) compared to the mean score for during COVID-19 parenting (31.40) indicating negative influence on parenting. We have predicted that participants whose coping levels were “Well” on the average, are likely to be doing well in relationship with partners and parenting practices during the COVID-19 period The challenging public health containment measures of the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively influenced the relationship between partners and parenting practices in Ghana.

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Maternal and Non-maternal Caregivers’ Practices in Drug Administration to Children during Illness

Abstract: 2019) 'Maternal and non-maternal caregivers' practices in drug administration to children during illness.', Child care in practice. .

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Ethical implications of the widespread use of informal mHealth methods in Ghana

Ethical implications of the widespread use of informal mHealth methods in Ghana

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Parenting practices and family relationships during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ghana

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