A5017770927- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
- Blood groups and transfusion
- Sleep and related disorders
- Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Physical Activity and Health
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Malaria Research and Control
- Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Statistical Methods and Inference
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
2017-2024
Kwame Nkrumah University
2023
Various studies have examined generalized additive models (GAMs), comparing thin plate splines (tp), P‐splines (ps), cubic regression (cr), and Gaussian processes (gp) for discrete choice data, function approximation, in the presence of multicollinearity outliers. Some applied ps to with correlated heteroscedastic errors, while others reviewed multiple smoothing term packages modeling GAMs. This study seeks examine performance semiparametric different noise outliers within framework GAMs...
Abstract The use of herbal products for the treatment malaria, has increased globally. However, inadequate scientific studies about safety and effectiveness such have been raised. Also, reduced sensitivity malaria parasites to artemisinin-based combination therapies is concern. There therefore need new antimalarial medications including those from alternative sources as medicinal products. In this study, a prospective, comparative parallel group randomized, clinical study was done assess...
Promoting happiness has become increasingly important in old age for a wide range of reasons. In this study, we aim to examine the association between social inclusion (SI) and among older adults Ghana identify mediating factors.The study included 1201 community-dwelling aged ≥50 (mean = 66.4 ± SD 11.9 years; 63.3% female) from 2016-2018 Ageing, Health, Psychological Well-being, Health-seeking Behaviour Study. We assessed with self-rated cross-culturally validated item on five-point scale....
Despite the political commitment of national governments and collaborative efforts by World Health Organization (WHO) toward actualization intercultural healthcare system over past decades, sub-Saharan African countries feature medical cohabitation rather than a truly integrated system. This hospital-based cross-sectional study analyzed capabilities nurses for complementary traditional medicine (CTM) integration in Africa.Practicing (n = 210) were recruited to respond CTM Belief...
Expectation-Maximization (EM) is a popular method for estimating parameters of the Poisson-Hidden Markov Model (P-HMM). However, over-dispersion in comparison to Poisson distribution remains concern. This study developed Bayesian count models. The compares Mean Square Errors and sufficiency EM Gibbs sampler technique using Akaike Information Criterion, Deviance Criterion as model selectors. Maximum Likelihood Estimates \textit{posteriori} were calculated both simulated real data this case....
Social isolation (SI) and food insecurity (FI) are important social determinants of health that can negatively impact well-being in old age. While research on the association between FI SI is limited LMICs, mediators this largely unknown. This cross-sectional study examined whether associated with among older adults Ghana psychological factors (i.e., depression, anxiety, sleep problems) mediated association.
There is an upsurge in the incidence of persons living with infectious diseases and their associated symptoms. Also, there increased resistance high cost available synthetic antimicrobial therapeutic agents. This calls for screening candidate herbal products to examine risk-to-benefit ratio users. Moreover, are inadequate proven scientific studies assess quality, effectiveness, toxicity that traditional medicine practitioners Ghana commonly use management such as those caused by Neisseria...
In this paper, we propose a new model to describe the blood type distribution of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases using Bayesian Poisson - Hidden Markov Model (BP-HMM). With help GIBBS sampler; We first identify number hidden states fitting European (EU) and African (AF) data sets COVID-19 by frequencies. The study then compares state-dependent mean infection within across two geographical areas. findings show that rate areas differ according type.
Objective: Sleep problems (SP) are highly prevalent and seriously affect health well-being in old age. The aim of this study was to examine the association between SP happiness an urban-dwelling older sample. We further explore effects anxiety depressive symptoms SP-happiness link using serial mediating modeling.Methods: Data came from 2016-2018 Aging, Health, Psychological Well-being, Health-seeking Behavior Study Ghana (n=661). measured with cross-culturally validated item on a five-point...
This paper proposes a model to describe the blood types distribution of new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases using Bayesian Poisson - Hidden Markov Model (BP-HMM). With help Gibbs sampler algorithm, OpenBugs, study first identifies number hidden states fitting European (EU) and African (AF) data sets COVID-19 by type frequency. The then compares state-dependent mean infection within across two geographical areas. findings show that rate areas differ according type.