About

AWARDS
• 03/2013 – 04/2016 International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.

• 09/2008 - 08/2009: Commonwealth Shared Scholarship, Royal Holloway, University of London.

• 08/2006 – 07/2008: Quota Scholarship, University of Bergen, Norway

Education

2016 – PhD, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. 
2009 – MSc. (Medical Sociology), Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
2008 – Mphil. (Health Promotion), University of Bergen, Norway
2004 – BA (Sociology and Psychology), University of Ghana

Publications

1. Oppong Asante K., Nketiah-Amponsah, E., Andoh-Arthur, J., Boafo, I. M., & Ampaw, S. (2018). Correlates of Early Sexual Debut Among Sexually Active Youth in Ghana. Int Q Community Health Educ, 39(1), 9-17. doi:10.1177/0272684x18811016

2. Boafo, I. M. (2018). The effects of workplace respect and violence on nurses’ job satisfaction in Ghana: a cross-sectional survey. Human resources for health, 16(1), 6.

3. Hancock, P., Adusei-Asante, K., Georgiou, J., & Boafo, I.M. (2018). Life after formal employment: A comparative study of female ‘garments and textiles’ and ‘all other’ factory’ workers in Sri Lanka. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 5(7).

4. Boafo, I. M., & Hancock, P. (2017). Workplace Violence Against Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study of Ghanaian Nurses. SAGE Open, 7(1). doi: 10.1177/2158244017701187
5. Boafo, I. M. (2016). “…they think we are conversing, so we don’t care about them…” Examining the causes of workplace violence against nurses in Ghana. BMC Nursing, 15(1), 68. doi: 10.1186/s12912-016-0189-8

6. Boafo, I. M. (2016). Ghanaian nurses’ emigration intentions: the role of workplace violence. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 29-35. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2016.11.001
7. Boafo, I. M., Hancock, P., & Gringart, E. (2016). Sources, incidence and effects of non-physical workplace violence against nurses in Ghana. Nursing Open. doi: 10.1002/nop2.43

8. Boafo, I. M., Dagbanu, E., & Oppong Asante, K. (2014). Dating Violence and Self-Efficacy for Delayed Sex among Adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 18(2), 46-57.

9. Oppong Asante, K., Boafo, I. M., & Nyamekye, M. (2014). Identifying Gender Differences in Ghanaian University Students’ Sexual Practices, Attitudes and Knowledge Regarding HIV. Journal of Psychology, 5(1), 1-18.

10. Afranie, S., Boafo, I.M.& Oppong Asante, K.(2012). “The epileptic patient may be pardoned for for AIDS you should know”: HIV/AIDS, Stigma, Discrimination and Biographical Disruption. Gender and Behaviour, 10(1)

11. Boafo, I.M. (2011). Dating Violence and Condom Use Self-efficacy: A Study of School-going adolescents in Cape Town. Ife PsychologiA, 19(2), 296-320.

12. Boafo, I.M. (2010). Threatened Identities: The Experience of HIV-positive mothers from sub-Saharan Africa. Legon Journal of Sociology,4(1),55-74.