Nursing-Related Barriers to Children’s Pain Management at Selected Hospitals in Ghana: A Descriptive Qualitative Study

Table 1

Characteristics of the study settings.

Hospital	Category	Area	Number of beds	Nursing staff in the pediatric units
A: specialist children’s hospital	Private	Urban	15	12
B: specialist children’s hospital	Government	Urban	50	15
C: general hospital with a pediatric department	Quasigovernmental	Periurban	22	10
D: general hospital with a pediatric department	Government	Periurban	20	15
E: general hospital with a pediatric department	Missionary	Rural	8	5