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Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana
Prenatal mental health problems can have adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of the mother as well as her baby. However, the factors associated with its etiology, expression, and coping mechanisms in Ghana remain understudied. This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10504840/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37720202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20551029231202316 |
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description | Prenatal mental health problems can have adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of the mother as well as her baby. However, the factors associated with its etiology, expression, and coping mechanisms in Ghana remain understudied. This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health problems among 21 pregnant women in Accra through semi-structured interviews. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis led to three dominant themes; “conceptions of prenatal mental disorders” (sub-themes: awareness and constructions of prenatal mental health problems), “experiences of mental health problems” (sub-themes: symptoms of prenatal mental health problems and causal attributions of prenatal mental health problems) and “coping mechanisms of the pregnancy experience” (subthemes: faith, social support and work). The lack of knowledge of mental health disorders in this study and the expression of contextually relevant and culturally defined constructions and experiences of prenatal mental health problems, highlight the need for the development of culturally suitable interventions within the Ghanaian context. |
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spelling | pubmed-105048402023-09-17 Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana Agyekum, Buruwaa Adomako Health Psychol Open Report of Empirical Study Prenatal mental health problems can have adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of the mother as well as her baby. However, the factors associated with its etiology, expression, and coping mechanisms in Ghana remain understudied. This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health problems among 21 pregnant women in Accra through semi-structured interviews. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis led to three dominant themes; “conceptions of prenatal mental disorders” (sub-themes: awareness and constructions of prenatal mental health problems), “experiences of mental health problems” (sub-themes: symptoms of prenatal mental health problems and causal attributions of prenatal mental health problems) and “coping mechanisms of the pregnancy experience” (subthemes: faith, social support and work). The lack of knowledge of mental health disorders in this study and the expression of contextually relevant and culturally defined constructions and experiences of prenatal mental health problems, highlight the need for the development of culturally suitable interventions within the Ghanaian context. SAGE Publications 2023-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10504840/ /pubmed/37720202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20551029231202316 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Report of Empirical Study Agyekum, Buruwaa Adomako Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana |
title | Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana |
title_full | Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana |
title_fullStr | Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana |
title_short | Perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: A qualitative study among pregnant women in Ghana |
title_sort | perceptions and experiences of prenatal mental health: a qualitative study among pregnant women in ghana |
topic | Report of Empirical Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10504840/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37720202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20551029231202316 |
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