AUTHOR'S PROFILE

Osei Akwasi A

Publications (21)

Providers' insight into quality mental health services - Context-Mechanism-Outcome (CMO) approach.

Journal: BMC health services research

Publication Year: 2025

Authors & Co-authors:  Badu Eric E O'Brien Anthony Paul AP Mitchell Rebecca R Osei Akwasi A

Evaluating the psychometric properties of three WHO instruments to assess knowledge about human rights, attitudes toward persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, and practices related to substitute decision-making and coercion in mental health.

Journal: Frontiers in psychiatry

Publication Year: 

Authors & Co-authors:  Moro Maria Francesca MF Gyimah Leveana L Susser Ezra E Ansong Joana J Kane Jeremy J Amissah Caroline C Gureje Oye O Osei Akwasi A Norcini Pala Andrea A Taylor Dan D

Common understandings of women's mental illness in Ghana: results from a qualitative study.

Journal: International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)

Publication Year: 2011

Authors & Co-authors:  Ofori-Atta Angela A Cooper Sara S Akpalu Bright B Osei Akwasi A Doku Victor V Lund Crick C Flisher Alan A

Factors influencing the career choice and retention of community mental health workers in Ghana.

Journal: Human resources for health

Publication Year: 2016

Authors & Co-authors:  Agyapong Vincent I O VI Osei Akwasi A Farren Conor K CK McAuliffe Eilish E

Task shifting of mental health care services in Ghana: ease of referral, perception and concerns of stakeholders about quality of care.

Journal: International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care

Publication Year: 2016

Authors & Co-authors:  Agyapong Vincent I O VI Osei Akwasi A Farren Conor K CK Mcauliffe Eilish E

Task shifting--Ghana's community mental health workers' experiences and perceptions of their roles and scope of practice.

Journal: Global health action

Publication Year: 2016

Authors & Co-authors:  Agyapong Vincent I O VI Osei Akwasi A Farren Conor K CK McAuliffe Eilish E

Task shifting-perception of stake holders about adequacy of training and supervision for community mental health workers in Ghana.

Journal: Health policy and planning

Publication Year: 2017

Authors & Co-authors:  Agyapong Vincent I O VI Osei Akwasi A Mcloughlin Declan M DM McAuliffe Eilish E

Mental health law in Ghana.

Journal: BJPsych international

Publication Year: 

Authors & Co-authors:  Walker George Hudson GH Osei Akwasi A

Evaluating the Impact of an Innovative Public Speaking Competition to Promote Psychiatry as a Career Option for Ghanaian Medical Students.

Journal: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry

Publication Year: 2019

Authors & Co-authors:  Agyapong Vincent I O VIO Hrabok Marianne M Agyapong-Opoku Gerald G Khinda Harsimran H Owusu-Antwi Ruth R Osei Akwasi A Ohene Sammy S Ulzen Thaddeus T Gilligan Paul P

Mediation and moderation effects of health system structure and process on the quality of mental health services in Ghana - structural equation modelling.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 2020

Authors & Co-authors:  Badu Eric E O'Brien Anthony Paul AP Mitchell Rebecca R Osei Akwasi A

The Impact of Diaspora-Based Psychiatrists' Participation in Clinical Teaching in a Lower Middle-Income Country on Interest in Psychiatry Among Medical Students and the Choice of Psychiatry as a Career.

Journal: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors:  Agyapong Vincent I O VIO Shalaby Reham R Agyapong-Opoku Gerald G Osei Akwasi A Ulzen Thaddeus T

Correction: Mediation and moderation effects of health system structure and process on the quality of mental health services in Ghana-structural equation modelling.

Journal: PloS one

Publication Year: 

Authors & Co-authors:  Badu Eric E Paul O'Brien Anthony A Mitchell Rebecca R Osei Akwasi A

Factors influencing medical students and psychiatry residents in Ghana to consider psychiatry as a career option - a qualitative study.

Journal: Global mental health (Cambridge, England)

Publication Year: 

Authors & Co-authors:  Agyapong Vincent I O VIO Ritchie Amanda A Doucet Kacy K Agyapong-Opoku Gerald G Shalaby Reham R Hrabok Marianne M Ulzen Thaddeus T Osei Akwasi A

Factors associated with the quality of mental health services and consumers' functionality using tertiary-based services.

Journal: Perspectives in psychiatric care

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors:  Badu Eric E O'Brien Anthony P AP Mitchell Rebecca R Osei Akwasi A

A Qualitative Study of Consumers' Experiences of the Quality of Mental Health Services in Ghana.

Journal: Issues in mental health nursing

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors:  Badu Eric E O'Brien Anthony Paul AP Mitchell Rebecca R Osei Akwasi A

Measuring Disability in Consumers of mental health services - psychometric properties of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) in Ghana.

Journal: International journal of mental health nursing

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors:  Badu Eric E Mitchell Rebecca R O'Brien Anthony Paul AP Osei Akwasi A Rubin Mark M

A qualitative study of evidence-based therapeutic process in mental health services in Ghana- context-mechanisms-outcomes.

Journal: BMC health services research

Publication Year: 2021

Authors & Co-authors:  Badu Eric E O'Brien Anthony Paul AP Mitchell Rebecca R Osei Akwasi A

The WHO QualityRights initiative: building partnerships among psychiatrists, people with lived experience and other key stakeholders to improve the quality of mental healthcare.

Journal: The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

Publication Year: 

Authors & Co-authors:  Moro Maria Francesca MF Pathare Soumitra S Zinkler Martin M Osei Akwasi A Puras Dainius D Paccial Rodelen C RC Carta Mauro Giovanni MG

A nationwide evaluation study of the quality of care and respect of human rights in mental health facilities in Ghana: results from the World Health Organization QualityRights initiative.

Journal: BMC public health

Publication Year: 2022

Authors & Co-authors:  Moro Maria Francesca MF Carta Mauro Giovanni MG Gyimah Leveana L Orrell Martin M Amissah Caroline C Baingana Florence F Kofie Humphrey H Taylor Dan D Chimbar Nurokinan N Coffie Martha M

Attitudes towards persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities as rights holders in Ghana: a World Health Organization study.

Journal: BMC psychiatry

Publication Year: 2023

Authors & Co-authors:  Harden Briony B Gyimah Leveana L Funk Michelle M Drew-Bold Natalie N Orrell Martin M Moro Maria Francesca MF Cole Celline C Ohene Sally-Ann SA Baingana Florence F Amissah Caroline C

A quantitative analysis of human rights-related attitude changes towards people with mental health conditions and psychosocial, intellectual, or cognitive disabilities following completion of the WHO QualityRights e-training in Ghana.

Journal: International journal of mental health systems

Publication Year: 

Authors & Co-authors:  Poynton-Smith Emma E Orrell Martin M Osei Akwasi A Ohene Sally-Ann SA Ansong Joana J Gyimah Leveana L McKenzie Caitlin C Moro Maria Francesca MF Drew-Bold Nathalie N Baingana Florence F