Mary Joan Kpiniong

ORCID: 0009-0007-3701-1482
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Research Areas
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences

Tamale Teaching Hospital
2021-2025

Inborn babies in many Ghana facilities who need any monitoring or therapy above Essential Newborn Care (ENC) are often separated from postnatal ward dyadic care and sent to Neonatal Units (NUs) due personnel workload, training gaps both. Describe (1) of inborn newborns NUs at 2 hospitals (2) outcomes, including breastfeeding. We identified stable could potentially be managed by midwives wards with appropriate additional staffing. conducted a retrospective study January December 2022 on...

10.1186/s12887-025-05432-y article EN cc-by-nc-nd BMC Pediatrics 2025-02-24

Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread worldwide with an increasing number of patients, including pregnant women and neonates. This study aims to evaluate morbidity mortality in the COVID-19 era compared preceding year Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana. Methods: is a cross-sectional carried out on neonates admitted NICU between March 1st August 31st, 2019 (pre-COVID-19 era) 2020 (COVID-19 era). Multivariate logistic regression was...

10.3389/fped.2021.642508 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Pediatrics 2021-03-25

<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background: </bold>Inborn babies in Ghana facilities who need any monitoring or therapy above Essential Newborn Care (ENC) are often separated out of dyadic care postnatal wards to Neonatal Units (NUs) due personnel workload, gaps training both. <bold>Objectives: </bold>Describe 1) inborn newborns NUs at 2 hospitals and 2) their outcomes, including breastfeeding. The purpose was identify stable could potentially be managed by midwives with appropriate additional...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-4295242/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2024-05-15
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