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Telerehabilitation for People with
Neurological conditions in Ghana
-A Global Challenge Research Network

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The team in UK with the team in Ghana

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Focus group meeting held in September, 2022

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Focus group meeting held in September, 2022

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A Busy neurology clinic day at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

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The team in UK with the team in Ghana

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Focus group meeting held in September, 2022

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Focus group meeting held in September, 2022

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A Busy neurology clinic day at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

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The team in UK with the team in Ghana

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Focus group meeting held in September, 2022

About Us

Telerehabilitation for people with neurological conditions in Ghana - A Global Challenges Research Network

The 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

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.

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 .

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Our Team

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Prof Lorna Paul

Physiotherapist and Professor of Allied Health Science at Glasgow Caledonian University
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Prof. Fred Stephen Sarfo

Principal Investigator/Neurologist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital & KNUST
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Prof Marian Brady

Professor of Stroke Care and Rehabilitation. Speech and Language Therapist (Glasgow Caledonian University)
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Prof Frederike Van Wijck

Prof of Neurological Rehabilitation and Co-Director of the Research Centre for Health (Glasgow Caledonian University)
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Dr. Katie Thomson

Occupational Therapist & Systematic Reviewer (NESSIE) (Glasgow Caledonian University)
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Eric Opoku

Occupational Therapist
(Glasgow Caledonian University)
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Shadrack Osei Asibey

Research Coordinator/Assistant (Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital)
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Derrick Antwi

Senior Occupational Therapist (Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital)