Publications
Appiah- Poku, J. Justice in Health Care, A Study at the KomfoAnokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana. Ghana Medical Journal 1996 vol. 31a: 826-828
Appiah-Poku J. Patient withdrawal from medical treatment: A pilot study at the KomfoAnokye Teaching Hospital, Part l. West African Medical Journal, 1998 vol. 17 no.3: 140-143.
Appiah-Poku J. A study of the perceived role of accompanying relatives to the Psychiatric Department of the KomfoAnokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi. Journal of the University of Science and Technology 1998 vol. 18 no.1: 23-24
AppiahPoku J. Informed Consent and Patient Compliance – A Study at the Out-Patient Department of the Psychiatric Unit of the KomfoAnokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi. Ghana Medical Journal 1999 vol.21
Appiah-Poku J; Laugharne, R; Mensah, E; et al, Previous help sought by patients presenting to mental health services in Kumasi, Ghana. Social psychiatry and psychiatric Epidemiology 2004 Mar, 39(3): 2008-11
Appiah-Poku J. Caring for the terminally Ill Patient – A pilot study, Ghana Medical Journal 2003 vol. 37 no.3 pp.107-9
Appiah-Poku J. Integrity in the Scientific Research Enterprise, Technocrat July 2003 vol. 1 no.
Appiah-Poku J. Some value considerations for justifying research in resource poor environments, Technocrat Jan-Mar, 2004 vol. 2 no.1pp.12-13.
Appiah-Poku J. Teaching Medical Ethics in a Medical School in Kumasi, Ghana, in proceedings of the First conference on Ethics Education in medical Schools, Eilat, Israel, Feb.17-22, 2005
Appiah-Poku J. A Study of the use of Informed consent Procedures on some Surgical Wards at the KomfoAnokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, in proceedings of the Sixth International conference on Bioethics in Rio, Brazil, November 18 – 22, 2005.
Appiah-Poku J. New Knowledge Drives Research: According to participants in TB Research program. Bioethics Exchange 2004 vol. 1 no. 1 pp 1-2.
Appiah-Poku, J. Conflict of Interest in Research, Technocrat 2005 vol. 3 no.1pp 7-8.
Newton, S.K. Appiah-Poku J. The Perspective of Researchers on obtaining Informed Consent in Developing Countries, Developing World Bioethics vol.7 no.1 2007 pp.19-24.
Newton S.K., Appiah-Poku J. Opinion of UK based Researchers on Recruiting subject into randomized control trials in developing countries, , Developing World Bioethics vol. 7 no.3 December 2007 pp. 149-156
Amanda Redvers, John Appiah-Poku, Richard Laugharne, Alcohol misuse in psychiatric outpatients in Ghana, Primary care and community psychiatry, vol. 11 no. 4. 2006, 179-183
Kass, A. Hyder, A. Demola, J. Appiah-Poku, et. al. The Structure and Function of Research Committees in Africa, Plos Med. (2007) vol.4:1 e3 pp. 0026-31
Laugharne R. Appiah-Poku, J. Laugharne J. Attitude of Medical Students towards Psychiatry, Academic Psychiatry 33:1 Jan-Feb. 2009 pp.71-75
W.K.B.A. Owiredu, J. Appiah-Poku, A. Yeboah, N. Amidu, Y. Osei. Hyperlipidaemia following treatment with antipsychotic medication, Journal Of Ghana Science Association, vol. 11 no. 2, Dec. 2009 123-135
W.K.B.A. Owiredu, J. Appiah-Poku, F.Adusei-Poku, N. Amidu, Y. Osei, The impact of blood glucose and cholesterol level on the manifestation of Psychiatric disorders. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 12 (3): 252-257, 2009
Appiah-Poku, J., Laugharne, J., Laugharne, R., Fostering psychiatry to Ghana: the impact of a short review course through an international collaboration, Academic Psychiatry, Nov. 01, 2011, Vol. 35, no.6
Appiah-Poku, J.,Newton, Sam., Kass, N. Participants’ perception of research benefits in an African epidemiologic study. Developing World Bioethics 2011 Dec; 11(3):128-35
W.K.B.A. Owiredu, O. Osei, N. Amidu, J. Appiah-Poku, Y. Osei. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Psychiatric Patients in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana. Journal of Medical and Biomedical Sciences (2012) 1(2): 38-49.
Carola Bindt, John Appiah-Poku, Marguerite TeBonle, Stefanie Schoppen et. al. Antepartum Depression and Anxiety Associated with Disability in African Women: A Cross Sectional Results from the CDS Study in Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire. www.plosone.org, Oct. 2012, vol.7:10, e48396
NanGua, Carola Bindt, Marguerite Bonle, John Appiah-Poku, et. al. Association of Antepartum and Postpartum Depression in Ghanaian and Ivorian Women With Febrile illness in Their Offspring: A Prospective Cohort Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2013;178(9):1394-1402
Guo, N., Bindt, C., Te Bonle, M., Appiah-Poku, J., Tomori, C., Hinz, R., ... & Koffi, M. (2014). Mental health related determinants of parenting stress among urban mothers of young children–results from a birth-cohort study in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. BMC psychiatry, 14(1), 1.
Lyons, Z., Laugharne, J., Laugharne, R., & Appiah-Poku, J. (2015). Stigma towards mental illness among medical students in Australia and Ghana. Academic Psychiatry, 39(3), 305-308.
Barnie, B. A., Forson, P. K., Opare-Addo, M. N. A., Appiah-Poku, J., Rhule, G. P., Oduro, G., ... & Donkor, P. (2015). Knowledge and Perceptions of Health Workers’ Training on Ethics, Confidentiality and Medico-Legal Issues. Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics, 2015.
Barthel, D., Kriston, L., Barkmann, C., Appiah-Poku, J., Te Bonle, M., Doris, K. Y. E., ... & Fordjour, D. (2016). Longitudinal course of ante-and postpartum generalized anxiety symptoms and associated factors in West-African women from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of Affective Disorders, 197, 125-133.
Pilowsky, D. J., Rojas, G., Price, L. N., Appiah-Poku, J., Razzaque, B., Sharma, M., ... & Kola, L. (2016). Building Research Capacity Across and Within Low-and Middle-Income Countries: The Collaborative Hubs for International Research on Mental Health. Academic psychiatry: the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry.
Barthel, D., Barkmann, C., Ehrhardt, S., Bindt, C., & International CDS Study Group. (2014). Psychometric properties of the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale in antepartum women from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of affective disorders, 169, 203-211.
Barthel, D., Barkmann, C., Ehrhardt, S., Schoppen, S., Bindt, C., & International CDS Study Group. (2015). Screening for depression in pregnant women from Côte d? Ivoire and Ghana: Psychometric properties of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Journal of affective disorders, 187, 232-240.
Partnership for mental health development in Sub-Saharan Africa (PaM-D): A collaborative initiative for research and capacity building https://www.researchgate.net/journal/2045-7960_Epidemiology_and_Psychiatric_Sciences