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Family caregivers’ experience of care with a child with cerebral palsy: the lived experiences and challenges of caregivers in a resource-limited setting in northern Ghana

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  • Mavis Mallory Mwinbam Department of Nursing, Nadowli District Hospital, Upper West Region, Nadowli, Ghana Faculty of Paediatric Nursing, Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives (GCNM), Accra, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joseph Ngmenesegre Suglo Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Presbyterian University College, Abetifi, Ghana Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King’s College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yaa Nyarko Agyeman Department of Population and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Margaret Wekem Kukeba Department of Nursing, C K Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Navrongo, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Joseph Ngmenesegre Suglo; suglojoseph{at}gmail.com
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Mwinbam MM, Suglo JN, Agyeman YN, et al
Family caregivers’ experience of care with a child with cerebral palsy: the lived experiences and challenges of caregivers in a resource-limited setting in northern Ghana
BMJ Paediatrics Open 2023;7:e001807. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001807

Publication history

  • Received December 4, 2022
  • Accepted June 22, 2023
  • First published July 5, 2023.
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July 05, 2023
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