Mary Abboah-Offei
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Dr Mary Abboah-Offei

Lecturer

Biography

Dr. Abboah-Offei is a Lecturer in Public Health in the School of Health and Social Care. She received her PhD in Palliative care from King's College London where she developed a person-centred intervention for people living with HIV/AIDS and tested the feasibility of recruitment and retention using the MRC framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions. She then completed 15 months of postdoctoral research at the University of York, working on global health projects in Kenya and Ghana funded by the British Academy for Improving Early Childhood Development in Urban Slums and the MRC for Health System Strengthening respectively. Dr Abboah-Offei then joined the School of Health and Life Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland, lecturing in Professional Health Studies (including Introduction to Palliative Care, Supporting People Facing Loss, Quality Improvement and Safety in Health and Social Care and Health and Wellbeing Across the Life Span), and joined Edinburgh Napier University in 2022.

Research Supervision: Dr. Abboah-Offei has supervised and co-supervised undergraduate and postgraduate student projects in the fields of public health, nursing and palliative care.

Teaching: Dr. Abboah-Offei has delivered lectures, tutorials and workshops to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and clinician as well as achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

News

Esteem

Fellowships and Awards

  • Best Poster Award
  • Best Poster Award
  • Fellowship of Higher Education Academy

 

Grant Reviewer

  • NIHR Expert Review: Harnessing routinely collected data for timely healthcare decisions in LMICs amidst pandemics
  • NIHR Expert Review: Strengthening anaemia policy interventions in LMICS: A collaborative approach to equitable healthcare

 

Media Activity

  • Featured in a BBC interview on "What's like to care for the dying"

 

Reviewing

  • Nursing Open - Experiences of foreign nurses in East Asian healthcare establishments to build diversity in interpersonal relationships: Empirical research qualitative
  • BMJ Open - Healthcare providers’ experiences of caring for people living with HIV/AIDS in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A descriptive phenomenological study
  • BMJ Open - Why urban communities from low-income and middle-income countries participate in public and global health research: protocol for a scoping review
  • Health Research Policy and Systems - A Health Technology Assessment of COVID-19 vaccination for Nigerian decision-makers: identifying stakeholders to support evidence uptake
  • BMJ Open: Exploring the syndemic interaction between social, environmental, and structural contexts of HIV infection in peri-mining areas in South Africa: A qualitative study
  • Health Research Policy and Systems - "Flying a plane and building it at the same time" Lessons learned from the dynamic implementation of mass vaccination clinics in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Taylor & Francis Group - Predictors of face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: Application of the health belief model, psychological distress and health motivation
  • Health Research Policy and Systems - Mapping the Way: Functional Modelling for Community Based Integrated Care for Older People
  • HIV Research & Clinical Practice - Staff perspectives on the feasibility of the person-centered care assessment tool (PCC-AT) in HIV treatment settings in Ghana: A mixed-methods study
  • Health Research Policy and Systems - Scaling up tobacco cessation within TB programmes: findings from a multi-country, mixed methods, implementation study
  • Health Research Policy and Systems - Effects of Incentives-based Population Policies on Sustainability of China's Recent Maternity Insurance System Reform: A System Dynamics Simulation
  • Environmental Engineering Science - Reusable face coverings and resiliency in COVID-19 pandemic
  • AIDS Care - Perceived Facilitators and Barriers Towards Willingness to Use Couples HIV Testing and Counselling among Heterosexual Couples in the United States
  • BMJ Open - Understanding the experiences and perception of people living with HIV on integrative traditional East Asian medicine management in Korea: an interview protocol for qualitative research
  • AIDS Care - Development, Implementation and Dissemination: Couples and Parent-Child Communication Workshops in Zambia

 

Date


18 results

Mixed methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trials of a community-based enhanced care intervention (CECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV in Ghana

Journal Article
Abboah-Offei, M., Bristowe, K., Vanderpuye-Donton, N. A., Ansa, G., Abas, M., Higginson, I., & Harding, R. (2020)
Mixed methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trials of a community-based enhanced care intervention (CECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV in Ghana. Palliative Medicine, 34(1 Supplement), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216320958098
Background/aims: Despite treatment advances, people living with HIV (PLWH) continue to experience distressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms and concer...

Are patient outcomes improved by models of professionally-led community HIV management which aim to be person-centred? A systematic review of the evidence

Journal Article
Abboah-Offei, M., Bristowe, K., & Harding, R. (2021)
Are patient outcomes improved by models of professionally-led community HIV management which aim to be person-centred? A systematic review of the evidence. AIDS care, 33(9), 1107-1117. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2020.1798865
UNAIDS advocates person-centred care (PCC) for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) to improve outcomes and wellbeing. We appraised the evidence of person-centred models of com...

Phase II mixed methods’ feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a novel community-based enhanced care intervention to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV in Ghana

Journal Article
Abboah-Offei, M., Bristowe, K., Vanderpuye-Donton, N. A., Ansa, G., Oppong-Agyei, Y. D., Abas, M., …Harding, R. (2020)
Phase II mixed methods’ feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a novel community-based enhanced care intervention to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV in Ghana. AIDS care, 32(sup2), 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2020.1739217
Person-centred care (PCC) for people living with HIV (PLWH) is a global goal for WHO and the UNAIDS strategy. We aimed to develop a novel person-centred intervention for commu...

How can we achieve person-centred care for people living with HIV/AIDS? A qualitative interview study with healthcare professionals and patients in Ghana

Journal Article
Abboah-Offei, M., Bristowe, K., Koffman, J., Vanderpuye-Donton, N. A., Ansa, G., Abas, M., …Harding, R. (2020)
How can we achieve person-centred care for people living with HIV/AIDS? A qualitative interview study with healthcare professionals and patients in Ghana. AIDS care, 32(12), 1479-1488. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2019.1698708
Although person-centred care (PCC) has been identified as a means to achieve the 90-90-90 targets, limited research has considered PCC in low- or middle-income settings. We ai...

Development and feasibility testing of a novel communitybased enhanced care intervention (ECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/ AIDS in Ghana

Presentation / Conference
Abboah-Offei, M. (2019, September)
Development and feasibility testing of a novel communitybased enhanced care intervention (ECI) to improve person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/ AIDS in Ghana. Paper presented at 6th International African Palliative Care Conference, Kigali City, Rwanda

Task-shifting must recognise the professional role of nurses

Journal Article
Afolabi, O., Abboah-Offei, M., Nkhoma, K., & Evans, C. (2019)
Task-shifting must recognise the professional role of nurses. The Lancet Global Health, 7(10), e1328-e1329. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x%2819%2930358-4

How Can We Achieve Person-centred Care for People Living with HIVAIDS? A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals and Patients in Ghana

Presentation / Conference
Abboah-Offei, M., Bristowe, K., Koffman, J., Vanderpuye, -. D. N. A., Ansa, G., Cottrell, L., …Harding, R. (2019, May)
How Can We Achieve Person-centred Care for People Living with HIVAIDS? A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals and Patients in Ghana. Poster presented at 16th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Berlin, Germany
Background: People living with HIV (PLWHIV) experience problems and concerns that require holistic assessment and person-centred care. Person-centred approach will facilitate ...

A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Community and Person-centred Models of Care and their Impact on Outcomes for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Presentation / Conference
Abboah-Offei, M., Bristowe, K., Koffman, J., Abas, M., Higginson, I. J., & Harding, R. (2018, May)
A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Community and Person-centred Models of Care and their Impact on Outcomes for People Living with HIV/AIDS. Poster presented at 10th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), Bern, Switzerland
Background: People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) experience severe symptom burden and psychosocial problems irrespective of treatment status. There is evidence that person-cent...

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Understanding the effects of passive smoking on pregnant women - MPH Dissertation at the University of York