Addressing stigma and discrimination towards school re-entry of teenage mothers in Ghana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study investigates how teenage mothers in Ghana experience stigma and discrimination during their post-pregnancy and childbirth school re-entry phase. It evaluates the effectiveness of current interventions—the Guidelines for Prevention of Pregnancy Among School Girls and Facilitation of Re-Entry into School after Childbirth, aimed at fostering a supportive and an inclusive school environment to re-engaged teenage mothers. Through a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with 55 teenage mothers, 18 teachers, and 10 school management committee members, we identified three key themes: lived experiences, assessment of interventions, and strategies for creating an inclusive school environment. Our findings reveal the protential of the policy guidelines but also acknowledge the ongoing challenges that re-engaged pregnant teenagers and mothers still face acrossed the municipalities. Interventions like awareness programs, networking/supportive groups, training/reorientation of teachers, and community engagement can further bolster the policy’s overall effectiveness. Consequently, this study contributes to enhancing educational opportunities for teenage mothers in Ghana by providing insights for localized interventions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".