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The team in UK with the team in Ghana
Focus group meeting held in September, 2022
Focus group meeting held in September, 2022
A Busy neurology clinic day at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
The team in UK with the team in Ghana
Focus group meeting held in September, 2022
Focus group meeting held in September, 2022
A Busy neurology clinic day at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
The team in UK with the team in Ghana
Focus group meeting held in September, 2022
About Us
Telerehabilitation for people with neurological conditions in Ghana - A Global Challenges Research NetworkThe number of people in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, with neurological conditions such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injury is increasing. Rehabilitation is critical for people with neurological conditions to ensure good health outcomes and quality of life. However, people with neurological conditions in Ghana, and other similar countries, are often unable to access rehabilitation services due to the lack of rehabilitation staff, high costs of services and/or because they live in rural areas a distance from the specialist centres.
The improvement in telecommunication networks and the rising number of people in Ghana with mobile phones (about 75%) and smart phones (about 35%) suggests that telerehabilitation (the remote delivery of rehabilitation services) has the potential to be a low cost solution, and beneficial for people with neurological conditions, although the evidence is limited especially in lower income countries.
Vision
1) To provide a forum for researchers spanning health care, policy and practice, information technology together with service users/carers and other key stakeholders to develop research priorities for telerehabilitation for people with neurological conditions in Ghana
2) To develop and undertake a programme of sustainable, innovative, interdisciplinary research based on the identified research priorities to improve the welfare of people with neurological conditions in Ghana and their carers
2) To develop and undertake a programme of sustainable, innovative, interdisciplinary research based on the identified research priorities to improve the welfare of people with neurological conditions in Ghana and their carers
3) To improve the research capacity and capability of rehabilitation staff in Ghana
4) To support the implementation of an evidence based, scalable and sustainable telerehabilitation service for people with neurological conditions in Ghana.
5) To explore the generalisability of the findings in Ghana to other SSA countries.
4) To support the implementation of an evidence based, scalable and sustainable telerehabilitation service for people with neurological conditions in Ghana.
5) To explore the generalisability of the findings in Ghana to other SSA countries.
Projects
PROJECT 1
Systematic review.
PROJECT 2
Views of people with neurological conditions and healthcare professionals on telerehabilitation in Ghana.
PROJECT 3
Healthcare professionals in Ghana telerehabilitation training needs analysis .
Our Team
Prof Lorna Paul
Physiotherapist and Professor of Allied Health Science at Glasgow Caledonian University
Prof. Fred Stephen Sarfo
Principal Investigator/Neurologist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital & KNUST
Prof Marian Brady
Professor of Stroke Care and Rehabilitation. Speech and Language Therapist (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Prof Frederike Van Wijck
Prof of Neurological Rehabilitation and Co-Director of the Research Centre for Health (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Dr. Katie Thomson
Occupational Therapist & Systematic Reviewer (NESSIE) (Glasgow Caledonian University)
Eric Opoku
Occupational Therapist(Glasgow Caledonian University)
Shadrack Osei Asibey
Research Coordinator/Assistant (Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital)