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Challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry
OBJECTIVE: To explore the psychosocial concerns and ways of coping of pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B infection in Ghana. SETTING: Participants were selected from public health facilities in the Tema Metropolis. DESIGN: Exploratory descriptive qualitative design was employed. PARTICIPANTS: F...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9606735/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36283752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062557 |
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author | Lanyo, Theresa Norpeli Ani-Amponsah, Mary Adjei, Charles Ampong |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To explore the psychosocial concerns and ways of coping of pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B infection in Ghana. SETTING: Participants were selected from public health facilities in the Tema Metropolis. DESIGN: Exploratory descriptive qualitative design was employed. PARTICIPANTS: Fourteen pregnant women were purposively selected to participate in face-to-face interviews. The data were analysed using the content analysis procedure. RESULTS: The participants' psychosocial concerns and coping strategies were diverse. A significant number of the participants were concerned about the impact their hepatitis B seropositivity would have on their relationships, finances, and general well-being. Specifically, they feared that their social network, especially their spouses, would perceive them as having led a promiscuous lifestyle in the past to acquire hepatitis B infection. Also, fear of transmitting the infection to their infants and the effects of the infection on their infants later in life were identified as major concerns by nearly all participants. The participants further reported feelings of distress and diminished self-esteem. These psychosocial afflictions reported were attributed to lack of pre-test counselling during the antenatal care period. However, the participants coped using different strategies, including avoidance/denial, spirituality, and alternative treatment use. CONCLUSION: To achieve optimal psychological and social well-being of pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B, it is important that their unique challenges are considered in their care and treatment cascade. Explicitly, protocols for supportive care addressing the specific needs of pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B should be implemented in the study setting |
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spelling | pubmed-96067352022-10-27 Challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry Lanyo, Theresa Norpeli Ani-Amponsah, Mary Adjei, Charles Ampong BMJ Open Obstetrics and Gynaecology OBJECTIVE: To explore the psychosocial concerns and ways of coping of pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B infection in Ghana. SETTING: Participants were selected from public health facilities in the Tema Metropolis. DESIGN: Exploratory descriptive qualitative design was employed. PARTICIPANTS: Fourteen pregnant women were purposively selected to participate in face-to-face interviews. The data were analysed using the content analysis procedure. RESULTS: The participants' psychosocial concerns and coping strategies were diverse. A significant number of the participants were concerned about the impact their hepatitis B seropositivity would have on their relationships, finances, and general well-being. Specifically, they feared that their social network, especially their spouses, would perceive them as having led a promiscuous lifestyle in the past to acquire hepatitis B infection. Also, fear of transmitting the infection to their infants and the effects of the infection on their infants later in life were identified as major concerns by nearly all participants. The participants further reported feelings of distress and diminished self-esteem. These psychosocial afflictions reported were attributed to lack of pre-test counselling during the antenatal care period. However, the participants coped using different strategies, including avoidance/denial, spirituality, and alternative treatment use. CONCLUSION: To achieve optimal psychological and social well-being of pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B, it is important that their unique challenges are considered in their care and treatment cascade. Explicitly, protocols for supportive care addressing the specific needs of pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B should be implemented in the study setting BMJ Publishing Group 2022-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9606735/ /pubmed/36283752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062557 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Obstetrics and Gynaecology Lanyo, Theresa Norpeli Ani-Amponsah, Mary Adjei, Charles Ampong Challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry |
title | Challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry |
title_full | Challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry |
title_fullStr | Challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry |
title_full_unstemmed | Challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry |
title_short | Challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis B in Ghana during COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry |
title_sort | challenges and ways of coping of parturient women with chronic hepatitis b in ghana during covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative inquiry |
topic | Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9606735/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36283752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062557 |
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