Psychosocial oncology in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Ghana

Hermioni L Amonoo; Salisu A Abdul-Rahim; Deborah Atobrah; Dorothy Addo-Mensah; Regina M Longley; Michelle C Jacobo; William F Pirl

doi:10.1002/pon.5965

Psychosocial oncology in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Ghana

Psychooncology. 2023 Jan;32(1):139-147. doi: 10.1002/pon.5965. Epub 2022 May 24.

Authors

Hermioni L Amonoo^{1

2

3}, Salisu A Abdul-Rahim⁴, Deborah Atobrah⁵, Dorothy Addo-Mensah⁶, Regina M Longley², Michelle C Jacobo^{1

3}, William F Pirl^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ National Radiotherapy, Oncology, and Nuclear Medicine Center, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
⁵ Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
⁶ Department of Adult Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Cape-Coast, Cape-Coast, Ghana.

PMID: 35584290
DOI: 10.1002/pon.5965

No abstract available

Keywords: Ghana; cancer; case Series; low-income country; mental health; palliative care; psycho-oncology; psychosocial wellbeing; sub-Saharan Africa; supportive oncology.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ghana
Humans
Poverty*
Psycho-Oncology*

Grants and funding

K08 CA251654/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States