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Isaac Boafo

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
Sociology of healthillness and healthcare organization
Publications

30

Citations

811

H-index

12

i10-index

14

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
27.0
Most cited paper
152
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 09:50
Publications

30 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
The effects of workplace respect and violence on nurses’ job satisfaction in Ghana: a cross-sectional survey
IM Boafo
2018 Human resources for health 16 (1), 6, 2018 Social Sciences 152
Sources, incidence and effects of non‐physical workplace violence against nurses in Ghana
IM Boafo, P Hancock, E Gringart
2016 Nursing open 3 (2), 99-109, 2016 Social Sciences 149
Workplace violence against nurses: a cross-sectional descriptive study of Ghanaian nurses
IM Boafo, P Hancock
2017 Sage open 7 (1), 2158244017701187, 2017 Social Sciences 131
Correlates of early sexual debut among sexually active youth in Ghana
K O. Asante, E Nketiah-Amponsah, J Andoh-Arthur, IM Boafo, S Ampaw
2018 International quarterly of community health education 39 (1), 9-17, 2018 Social Sciences 58
Ghanaian nurses’ emigration intentions: the role of workplace violence
IM Boafo
2016 International journal of Africa nursing sciences 5, 29-35, 2016 Social Sciences 58
‘God helps those who help themselves’… religion and Assisted Reproductive Technology usage amongst urban Ghanaians
RA Hiadzi, IM Boafo, PM Tetteh
2021 PLoS One 16 (12), e0260346, 2021 Social Sciences 43
Effects of workplace violence on the quality of care by nurses: A study of the Volta Region of Ghana
FMK Agbornu, IM Boafo, AMA Ofei
2022 International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences 16, 100421, 2022 Social Sciences 38
“… they think we are conversing, so we don’t care about them…” Examining the causes of workplace violence against nurses in Ghana
IM Boafo
2016 BMC nursing 15 (1), 68, 2016 Social Sciences 37
Dating violence and self-efficacy for delayed sex among adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa
IM Boafo, KO Asante
2014 African journal of reproductive health 18 (2), 46-57, 2014 Social Sciences 34
Identifying gender differences in Ghanaian University students’ sexual practices, attitudes and knowledge regarding HIV
KO Asante, IM Boafo, M Nyamekye
2014 Journal of Psychology 5 (1), 9-18, 2014 Social Sciences 29
Quest for conception: exploring treatment patterns associated with infertility in Ghana
RA Hiadzi, IM Boafo
2020 African Journal of Reproductive Health 24 (2), 27-39, 2020 Social Sciences 19
Self-efficacy and perceived barriers as determinants of breast self-examination among female nonmedical students of the University of Ghana
IM Boafo, PM Tetteh
2020 International quarterly of community health education 40 (4), 289-297, 2020 Social Sciences 18
Exploring prostate cancer screening among men in Accra using the health belief model
IM Boafo, PM Tetteh, RA Hiadzi
2023 Ghana medical journal 57 (3), 226, 2023 Health Sciences 12
Dating violence and condom use self-efficacy: a study of school-going adolescents in cape town
IM Boafo
2011 IFE Psychologia: An International Journal 19 (2), 296-320, 2011 Social Sciences 12
Surrogacy in Ghana: A qualitative study exploring recruitment processes, eligibility criteria, stigma and postnatal care experiences among surrogate mothers
DA Amarteifio, RA Hiadzi, PM Tetteh, IM Boafo
2025 BMJ open 15 (10), e103535, 2025 Social Sciences 7
Epileptic patient may be pardoned... but for AIDS you should know": HIV/AIDS, stigma, discrimination and biographical disruption
S Afranie, IM Boafo, KO Asante
2012 Gender and Behaviour 10 (1), 4585-4603, 2012 Health Sciences 5
6 Gender and Higher Education in Nursing
IM Boafo, SE Gyan
2022 Laura Perna, Vice Provost for Faculty, GSE Centennial Presidential Professor …, 2022 Social Sciences 3
Gender and nursing in Ghana: An explorative study of the reasons male nurses leave the bedside
IM Boafo
2022 Ghana Social Science Journal 19 (2), 19-33, 2022 Social Sciences 2
Threatened identities: the experience of HIV-mothers in sub-Saharan Africa
IM Boafo
2010 Legon Journal of Sociology 4 (1), 55-74, 2010 Social Sciences 2
Wombs for rent: Exploring the motivations behind Ghanaian Women’s decisions to become surrogate mothers
IM Boafo, DA Amarteifio, PM Tetteh, RA Hiadzi
2026 Plos one 21 (4), e0346006, 2026 Social Sciences 1
“When you use tramadol, the sperms will not come out...”: Unconventional strategies for avoiding unintended pregnancy among adolescents in Ghana
SE Gyan, IM Boafo
2024 SAGE Open Medicine 12, 20503121231224660, 2024 Social Sciences 1
Understanding the social, emotional and economic challenges of surrogate mothers in Ghana: A phenomenogical study
IM Boafo, DA Amarteifio, RA Hiadzi, PM Tetteh
2026 African Journal of Reproductive Health 30 (12), 62-72, 2026 Social Sciences 0
GENDER DYNAMICS AND CRIMINALIZATION OF CHILD MARRIAGE IN GHANA
SE Gyan, IM Boafo
2025 The Routledge Companion to Gender and Crime, 2025 Social Sciences 0
“This is what we call delayed humiliation”: Negotiating socio-cultural challenges in the use of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) by couples with infertility problems in …
PM Tetteh, RA Hiadzi, IM Boafo
2023 Ghana Social Science Journal 20 (2), 160–179-160–179, 2023 Social Sciences 0
Life after formal employment: A comparative study of female ‘garments and textiles’ and ‘all other’factory’workers in Sri Lanka
P Hancock, K Adusei-Asante, J Georgiou, I Boafo
2018 Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 5 (7), 2018 Social Sciences 0