6/4/2023 0 Comments Call gladys![]() More so, it is in line with the Universities mission to ‘develop world-class human resources and capabilities to meet national development needs and global challenges through quality teaching, learning, research and knowledge dissemination’. This study will contribute to knowledge on adherence monitoring and enhance the skills of the PI who is collaborating with a more experienced researcher and senior faculty. Focus group discussion will elicit information on acceptability and feasibility of the instrument. It is expected that MAT would demonstrate an internal consistency of <0.75 which is expected to increase following repeated measurement. The data would be analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The interviewer administered tool will be used to collect data from the same respondents twice within 2-3 weeks intervals. The hospital record of clients on ART for the period 2012-2013 in fevers unit of the Korle Bu Teaching hospital will be obtained with their contact numbers and random numbers used to select 311 prospective respondents. Respondents in this study would be recruited using systematic sampling. The primary outcome to be compared in the two arm randomized control trial is adherence scores based on MAT hence the need to validate the tool. The validation is a prelude to a study that seeks to measure adherence and determine how mobile phone integration in adherence strategies would improve adherence. This project seeks to validate MAT, determine outcome of measuring adherence using MAT and assess acceptability and feasibility of using this tool in HIV clients in Ghana. The Multimethod Adherence Tool (MAT) was developed and validated in South Africa but has not been validated in Ghana. Using validated adherence monitoring tools that is amenable to clinical and research situations is very important. Systematic adherence monitoring in Ghana remains a challenge although client records, follow-up visits and pharmacy records have been used to estimate adherence to ART. Gladys Dzansi (Department of Adult Health, School of Nursing, University of Ghana, Legon) Which means I’m kind of like her.Project Title: Validating the Multimethod Adherence Tool for Measuring Adherence in HIV Clients in Accra, Ghana The best part of all of this - I’m her son. She sometimes goes by an alias and it’s amazing….But I won’t blow her cover. She writes herself checks and cashes them in order to have cash on hand. I was like, “what is that?” It’s code for “I Love You.”ĩ. And despite not having a computer, she picked up texting really fast. It’s still her outgoing message when you call. When my mom first got a Cell Phone she didn’t know how to record the outgoing voice mail message. And she’s the reason why I felt comfortable cutting classes in college.Ĩ. In high school she would wake me up every day saying, “Time to get up poop face.” Sometimes I would say, “I’m so tired” and she would say, “I’ll call you out of first period.” She still calls me poop face. She would pick me up from track practice and when I got in the car she would say, “I brought your goggles, we’re going tanning.” My nick name in high school was Malibu Ken.ħ. Sophomore year in high school my mom and I started going to a tanning salon. I described it to my mom and she asked if she could have it when I was done.Ħ. Two years ago I was Snooki for Halloween and I wore a tight lycra zebra print dress from American Apparel. My mom never met an animal print she didn’t like. We all went out that night and when we got home the bathroom mirror said, “GET A JOB YOU LAZY LUMP” - written with soap.ĥ. I got fired as a bus boy from the Lobster Roll in Amagansett, Long Island one summer while I had friends from college staying with me. Just change my colostomy bag and put a straw in a bottle of wine and tell me to suck. Her message back was, “You won’t have to do much to take care of me. The best one was when I left her a message asking for money for spring break and I said that she might as well invest in me now because I’d be taking care of her when she was older, feeding and changing old lady diapers. They would forward them to others because they were that good. She used to leave me funny voice mails in college and I would forward them to my friends through the school’s internal phone system. So when I’m talking to her and asking for something she says, “Okay, send me an e mail about it.” It NEVER gets old.ģ. But she doesn’t have a computer, she doesn’t go online and she’s never had an e mail address. ![]() She’s not old fashioned in any way - quite progressive, actually. She said, “I plant them in hopes that they will grow a cigarette tree.”Ģ. She used to put cigarettes out all over our property and one day my dad asked her why she sticks them in the ground rather than throwing them out. My mom is perhaps one of the most fabulously ridiculous people I know. ![]()
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