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    Assessing secondary school students’ digital health literacy, information searching behaviours, and satisfaction with online COVID-19 information in Northern Ghana
    Elsevier BV ; 2023
    In:  Heliyon Vol. 9, No. 7 ( 2023-07), p. e17936-
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    In: Heliyon, Elsevier BV, Vol. 9, No. 7 ( 2023-07), p. e17936-
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2405-8440
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17936
    Language: English
    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Publication Date: 2023
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    Perceived Safety of Learning Environment and Associated Anxiety Factors during COVID-19 in Ghana: Evidence from Physical Education Practical-Oriented Program
    MDPI AG ; 2022
    In:  European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-01-01), p. 28-41
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    In: European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, MDPI AG, Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2022-01-01), p. 28-41
    Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 led to the swift migration to alternate instructional delivery models and pedagogical practices in educational institutions. This study examined the perceived safety of the learning environment and associated anxiety factors among physical education students amidst COVID-19. Using a cross-sectional design, a sample of 638 students drawn purposively and conveniently from a public university in Ghana completed a self-developed questionnaire. Frequency counts, percentages, and ordered logistic regression were used to analyze the data. Findings of the study showed that students perceived the practical lesson environment as unsafe, with self-reported moderate to high levels of anxiety during their practical lessons. The ordered logistic regression results revealed that varied factors such as age, COVID-19 information platforms, certainty about personal safety, and adequacy of preparation to manage COVID-19 cases were associated with anxiety. The study concluded that an unsafe practical physical education learning environment increases the anxiety levels of students. Academic departments/units should provide periodic interventions (e.g., positive self-talk, mental rehearsal, cognitive restructuring) and counseling services for students amidst the ongoing pandemic to help moderate situational-specific anxiety. In addition, key to the management of students’ anxiety is the provision of a safe and supportive school environment, including the provision of adequate personal protective equipment for practical lessons by school authorities.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2254-9625
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3390/ejihpe12010003
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Linking COVID-19-Related Awareness and Anxiety as Determinants of Coping Strategies’ Utilization among Senior High School Teachers in Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana
    MDPI AG ; 2022
    In:  Social Sciences Vol. 11, No. 3 ( 2022-03-17), p. 137-
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    In: Social Sciences, MDPI AG, Vol. 11, No. 3 ( 2022-03-17), p. 137-
    Abstract: Cognitive-behavioral coping among teachers is an important issue of investigation due to the reported high prevalence of anxiety associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas several studies have assessed COVID-19 awareness of individuals as a predictor of anxiety, the moderating role of awareness in anxiety and coping mechanisms remains unclear. The study primarily examined the nexus between awareness of COVID-19 and (a) anxiety and (b) coping strategies, including the interaction effect of COVID-19-related awareness in the link between anxiety and coping strategies among senior high school teachers. A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was adopted to conveniently select 184 teachers from senior high schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Questionnaires were administered to the participants and data were analyzed with means, standard deviation, Pearson correlation, and linear regression statistical procedures. Summarily, the results revealed a negative relationship between COVID-19 awareness and anxiety levels of teachers. COVID-19-related anxiety significantly predicted coping mechanisms of teachers. Further, COVID-19 awareness significantly moderated the relationship between anxiety and coping strategies adopted. These findings imply that the public health education and mass awareness campaign programs on COVID-19 could act as buffers against the spread of COVID-19, its associated comorbidities, and help improve the mental health of teachers. Promoting adaptation to COVID-19 through the use of functional management strategies such as active coping and emotional support should be encouraged in the Cape Coast Metropolis among teachers.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2076-0760
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3390/socsci11030137
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Investigating teachers' experience and self-efficacy beliefs across gender in implementing the new standards-based curriculum in Ghana
    Frontiers Media SA ; 2022
    In:  Frontiers in Education Vol. 7 ( 2022-9-29)
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    In: Frontiers in Education, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 7 ( 2022-9-29)
    Abstract: The introduction of the new standards-based curriculum in Ghana required teachers to make adjustments, including teaching routines. Despite the challenges encountered in the introduction of this new curriculum, its passage was successful. Previous studies have revealed mixed reactions from teachers and how their experiences affect their efficacy during the implementation stage. This study examined whether teachers' experiences and self-efficacy beliefs influenced the implementation of the new curriculum reforms across gender in Ghana. The cluster sampling technique was used to survey 693 basic school teachers who responded to a questionnaire. Descriptive and regression-based inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. A preliminary assessment showed that teachers exhibited a moderate-to-high level of teaching efficacy in student engagement, instructional strategy, and classroom management. Furthermore, the study also revealed that teaching experience was positively related to efficacy. However, gender significantly moderated the relationship between teaching experience and teachers' efficacy in student engagement as well as teaching experience and efficacy in student engagement. Findings imply that even though teachers may be more likely to plan and deliver pedagogical content and carry out instructional activities, their sense of efficacy in managing their classroom is questionable. Emphasizing teaching experience in improving their efficacy in curriculum implementation is key, especially among female teachers. Programs or capacity-building training workshops that seek to improve teachers' ability to manage the classroom environment should be organized regularly to promote effective curriculum implementation.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2504-284X
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.932447
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Frontiers Media SA ; 2022
    In:  Frontiers in Psychology Vol. 13 ( 2022-5-19)
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    In: Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 13 ( 2022-5-19)
    Abstract: Despite the widespread use of the stress appraisal measure questionnaire in sport psychology literature, information on the psychometric properties of this survey instrument across different cultures and samples is still lacking. This study sought to validate the stress appraisal measure among male football players in the Ghana’s Premier League using the multidimensional item response theory. The descriptive cross-sectional survey design was adopted to recruit 424 footballers from the 2020/2021 Ghana Premier League season using the census approach. The 28-item Stress Appraisal Measure was used to assess six (6) appraisal mechanisms under primary and secondary cognitive appraisals. The ordered polytomous item response theory was used for analyzing the data. The study found that although some items were problematic, the majority of them were found to have good item parameters, effective scale option functioning, and provided adequate empirical information in the measurement of stress appraisal. This research concluded that the stress appraisal measure has promising applicability among male footballers who participated in the premier league in Ghana. Future researchers are encouraged to re-validate the stress appraisal measure with a different sample to contribute to the understanding of the applicability of the instrument in non-western populations.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1664-1078
    URL: Article
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.856217
    DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.856217.s001
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Assessing the validity of digital health literacy instrument for secondary school students in Ghana: The polychoric factor analytic approach
    Frontiers Media SA ; 2022
    In:  Frontiers in Digital Health Vol. 4 ( 2022-9-23)
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    In: Frontiers in Digital Health, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 4 ( 2022-9-23)
    Abstract: The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic resulted in the heightened need for digital health literacy among the youth of school-going age. Despite the relevance of digital health literacy among the general public (including students), it appears the measurement of digital health literacy is still a challenge among researchers. Recently, Dadackinski and colleagues adapted existing digital health literacy measures to fit the COVID-19 situation. Since this development, the instrument has been widely used with few validation studies with none in Africa and specifically, in Ghana. The purpose of the study was to assess the validity of the digital health literacy instrument (DHLI) for secondary school students in Ghana using the polychoric factor analysis. We sampled 1,392 students from secondary schools in Ghana. The digital health literacy instrument was administered to the respondents, thereof. The study confirmed the four latent structure of the DHLI. Further, sufficient validity evidence was found regarding the construct validity of the DHLI. The findings from the study support the validity of the DHLI and its utility within the Ghanaian context. With the growing need for digital health literacy among younger people globally, the DHLI provides sufficient grounds for scaling them based on their level of literacy. There is a need for the instrument to be adapted and re-validated in Ghana and among different populations to widen its reproducibility.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2673-253X
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.968806
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Subjective social status and well-being of adolescents and young adults in Ghanaian schools: conditional process analysis
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2023
    In:  BMC Psychology Vol. 11, No. 1 ( 2023-04-18)
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    In: BMC Psychology, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 11, No. 1 ( 2023-04-18)
    Abstract: With the growing concern and interest in the mental health and well-being of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) including those in schools, many studies have explored the bivariate relationship between subjective social status (SSS) and AYAs’ subjective well-being (SWB). Acknowledging the spurious nature of this relationship, we assessed the relationship between SSS and SWB of AYAs in schools within Northern Ghana, focusing on the conditional indirect effect of monetary resource (MR) and sense of coherence (SoC). Methods We utilised a cross-sectional descriptive design to survey 1096 senior high school students from two regions in Ghana’s Northern zone through a stratified sampling method. A questionnaire consisting of a number of calibrated standardized measures was used for the data collection. The data were processed using SPSS and PROCESS Macro and analysed using Hayes’ conditional process analysis. Results The results revealed that students’ MR significantly moderated the relationships between SSS and SoC as well as SSS and SWB. A significant moderated mediation effect of MR and SoC on the relationship between SSS and SWB was found. Particularly, AYAs who reported higher levels of MRl, SSS and SoC reported a better SWB. Conclusion The findings underscore the relevance of providing sufficient financial support for students in secondary schools in Ghana; thus, highlighting the sheer relevance of economic capital as a leading factor for better well-being. The findings also place much emphasis on building students’ personal coping mechanisms as a key variable in explaining how the students’ SSS and MR translate into having positive mental health outcomes.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2050-7283
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1186/s40359-023-01158-7
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2023
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    Gender Risk Perception and Coping Mechanisms among Ghanaian University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    MDPI AG ; 2022
    In:  Healthcare Vol. 10, No. 4 ( 2022-04-06), p. 687-
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    In: Healthcare, MDPI AG, Vol. 10, No. 4 ( 2022-04-06), p. 687-
    Abstract: Recent research has shown that gender is an important driver of the risk of mortality and morbidity rates for people with COVID-19, with case fatality rates being higher for women than men. Despite this pattern, research is sparse on gender risk perception and potential coping mechanisms. This study examined the role gender plays in the relationship between COVID-19 risk perception and coping mechanisms among university students. Through the adoption of traditional and online surveys, 859 students from two public universities in Ghana were conveniently selected to respond to the survey instrument. The results from the multivariate regression analysis revealed that COVID-19 risk perception was positively related to active coping. The outcome of the moderation analysis showed that while males were more likely than females to adopt active and emotional support coping with heightened risk perception, a contrary outcome was observed for behaviour disengagement. This result is an indication that female students are likely to be overwhelmed with a high level of risk perception and easily give up trying to adopt effective strategies to reduce the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic situation. The findings highlight the need for different forms of intervention for male and female students for dealing with the effect of COVID-19.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2227-9032
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10040687
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Development and Validation of an Inventory for Stressful Situations in University Students Involving Coping Mechanisms: An Interesting Cultural Mix in Ghana
    MDPI AG ; 2022
    In:  Psych Vol. 4, No. 2 ( 2022-03-28), p. 173-186
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    In: Psych, MDPI AG, Vol. 4, No. 2 ( 2022-03-28), p. 173-186
    Abstract: Cognitive and behavioural coping strategies are relevant approaches for individuals such as university students as they attempt to manage stressful situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic and other academic-related pursuits within their social milieu. Although several instruments have been developed to measure the coping situations of such individuals, few studies have developed students’ specific coping inventories, with none in the African context. Of the few that exist, a culturally dominant code such as religion has been ignored by many scholars in the development of coping measures. In this study, a cultural-mix coping inventory was developed and validated using university students in Ghana. Two distinct interrelated objectives were addressed. First, the structure of the coping inventory was identified through principal component analysis. Further confirmatory factor as well as reliability analyses were then performed to provide evidence of construct validity of the scale. The outcome of the study revealed a sixteen-item psychometrically sound coping inventory with a four-dimensional structure, namely, active coping, religious coping, behaviour disengagement, and emotional support. The implications of the results are further discussed in detail.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2624-8611
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3390/psych4020015
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Psychometric properties of the cultural mix coping inventory for stressful situations using physical education teachers: a multidimensional item response theory analysis
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2022
    In:  BMC Psychology Vol. 10, No. 1 ( 2022-08-29)
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    In: BMC Psychology, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 10, No. 1 ( 2022-08-29)
    Abstract: The incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic heightened the levels of stress of not only students but for teachers, particularly physical education (PE) teachers. The reference to PE teachers is due to their role in engaging students in practical in-person lessons after the resumption of school. Previous literature has revealed that PE teachers exhibit significantly increased levels of anxiety, fear, tension and uncertainty that they could contract the virus during these lessons. Given this scenario, there is a growing need for identifying a suitable coping scale which can accurately measure coping strategies employed these teachers. This research assessed the psychometric properties of the 16-item coping inventory using a multidimensional item response theory approach. The study surveyed 484 PE teachers through the convenience sampling technique, after which the cultural mix coping instrument was administered to them. The findings of this study confirmed the 4-factor structure of the coping measure which is consistent with the original measure. Results further revealed that a modified 14-item compared to the original 16-item coping inventory was optimal in measuring coping strategies among PE teachers. The study concluded that the 14-item cultural mix coping inventory was appropriate, applicable and reproducible to the PE teachers’ population.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2050-7283
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1186/s40359-022-00916-3
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2022
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