Dr. Ernest Darkwah
Ernest Darkwah, (B.A., M.Phil. Ghana; PhD, Norway) is a Senior Lecturer, Industrial & Organizational Psychologist and Workplace Health Promoter at the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana. He is also a Fellow of the Partnership for Africa’s Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA), a Teaching Fellow on the Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Programme at Ankara University in Turkey and a Research Fellow at the Africa Interdisciplinary Research Institute. His research interests are in the areas of Workplace Health Promotion, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Occupational Health Psychology and Public Health. He is currently pursuing two strands of research: (a) Work-related experiences and health situations of people who work in human care services (Child care and Health care) (b) occupation and work reality shock experiences of new organizational entrants.
Ongoing Research
1 Exploring Occupational Reality Shock (ORS) experiences and psychological wellbeing of newly-employed Nurses in Ghana
2. Pathways to employment and Reintegration of Ghanaian scholars returning from studies abroad
Recent publications
Nutor, J.J., Duah, H.O., Duodu, P.A., Agbadi, P. Alhassan, R.K., Darkwah, E. (2021) Geographical variations and factors associated with recent HIV testing prevalence in Ghana: spatial mapping and complex survey analyses of the 2014 demographic and health surveys, BMJ Open 11(7):e045458. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045458
Hodzi, M.B., Annor, F. & Darkwah, E. (2021). An exploration of work-related experiences of domestic workers in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, DOI:10.1080/15555240.2021.1941068
Duodu, P.A., Agbadi, P., Duah, H. O., Darkwah, E., Nutor, J.J. (2021). Correlates of blood pressure and blood glucose screenings in Cameroon: insights from the 2018 Demographic and Health Survey. International Health 2021; 0: 1– 10 https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihab033
Agbadi, P., Twumwaa, E.T., Agyemang, F.A, Dzomeku, V.M., Agbo, H.N.K, Darkwah, E. (2020). Media exposure to family planning contents and adult support for teaching children about condom use to prevent HIV/AIDS: Findings from 2003 to 2014 Ghana Demographic Health Surveys. Children and Youth Services Review, 118(2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105447
Agbadi, P., Nutor, J.J., Darkwah, E., Duah, H.O., Duodu, P.A.,..et, al, (2020). Covariates and Spatial Interpolation of HIV Screening in Mozambique: Insight from the 2015 AIDS Indicator Survey International, Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(16), 5630; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165630
Duodu, P.A, Duah, H.O., Dzomeku,V.M., Mensah, A.B., Mensah, J.A. Darkwah, E., Agbadi, P. (2020). Consistency of the determinants of early initiation of breastfeeding in Ghana: insights from four Demographic and Health Survey datasets, International Health; 00: 1– 10 doi:10.1093/inthealth/ihaa017
Agbadi, P., Darkwah, E., Kenney, P.L. (2019). A Multilevel Analysis of Regressors of Access to Improved Drinking Water and Sanitation Facilities in Ghana,” Journal of Environmental and Public Health, vol. 2019, Article ID 3983869, 11 pages, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/3983869.
Darkwah, E., Daniel, M., Asumeng, M. (2018). The impact of organizational structure and funding sources on the work and health of employed caregivers in children’s homes in Ghana. Occupational Health Science 2(3), 299–321 DOI: 10.1007/s41542-0180020-x
Darkwah E. Daniel, M. & Yendork, J.S. (2018). Care-‘Less’: Exploring the interface between childcare and parental control in the context of child rights for workers in Children’s Homes in Ghana. BMC. International Health and Human Rights 18(13) doi.org/10.1186/s12914-018-0151-9.
Darkwah, E., Asumeng, A., Daniel, M. (2017) Caring for “Parentless” Children: An explorationof stressors and resources experienced by care workers in Children’s Homes in Ghana. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies 8(2): 59– 89
Darkwah, E., Daniel, M., & Asumeng, M. (2016). Caregiver perceptions of children in their care and motivations for the care work in children's homes in Ghana: Children of God or children of white men?. Children and Youth Services Review, 66, 161-169.