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Emma Ariyo S
ID:
Examination of Sociocultural Boundaries and Gender construction in Women’s Rugby in Uganda
REFNo: SS579ES

1. Contributing to the body of literature on women rugby players’ use of sport to navigate socio-cultural structures in society.

2. Providing an in-depth understanding of how female participation in sport impacts multiple identities [relations] and relationships [social positioning] in reference to young women and their families and communities.

3. Inform educators, activists, policy makers and sport administrators’ decisions about developing sport opportunities for women in Uganda.
Uganda 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Edith Akankwasa
ID:
Implementing a child disability prevention, detection and rehabilitation project in central Uganda: Learning and experiences from the field
REFNo: HS896ES

i. To establish if amongst the intervention districts, those districts that show stronger implementation of birth defect and child disability prevention, child disability detection, management and rehabilitation interventions as envisaged perform better on key birth defect detection and child disability rehabilitation indicators compared to those intervention districts with “a lower level of implementation” (i.e., evidence of “dose-response”).
ii. To determine if, after three years, districts in project overall intervention area will show more improvement in coverage from baseline on key birth defect and child disability prevention, disability detection, management and rehabilitation indicators compared with those districts in the comparison area.
iii. To appraise the processes used in enhancing the delivery of the birth defect and child disability prevention, detection and rehabilitation services where they are being implemented.
iv. To explain in detail how and why the strategies employed led to the observed coverage in access to and utilization of the CDR project services in the implementation districts.
v. To characterize the stakeholders for birth defect and child disability prevention, detection and rehabilitation services.
vi. To document the barriers and facilitators used in the implementation of the CDR project along with how the barriers can be addressed

Uganda 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
WINTERS MUTTAMBA
ID:
Exacerbation of Chronic Bronchial Sepsis (ECBS): A study of the role of key bacteria in exacerbations of COPD and bronchiectasis
REFNo: HS921ES

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES
i. To compare bacterial loads at presentation with time to first exacerbation.
ii. To assess the relationship of bacterial loads of specific bacteria with emergency attendance.
iii. To compare bacterial loads at presentation with time-to-clinical-stability (TCS), CRP response and length of antibiotics.
iv. To assess the relationship of specific bacterial loads with quality of life (QoL) scores.
v. To assess the microbiome dynamics during- and after- treatment.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES
1. To compare bacterial loads with Bronchiectasis Severity Index (BSI) in those with a clinical diagnosis of bronchiectasis.
2. To compare admission bacterial loads with baseline FEV for relationship with key clinical outcomes.
3. To compare key clinical outcomes based upon initial counts of neutrophils, lymphocytes, platelets and eosinophils, and their ratios (including principally neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio, NLR, and platelet-lymphocyte ratio, PLR).
4. To compare bacterial loads with bronchiectasis severity index (BSI) in those with a clinical diagnosis of bronchiectasis.


Uganda 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Elizeus Rutebemberwa
ID: UNCST-2022-R009070
Reducing Tobacco use among the In- and Out-of-School youths in Moroto district, Uganda
REFNo: HS1021ES

General objective:
The general objective is to assess tobacco use among the youth in Moroto district.

Specific objectives:
1)Explore perceptions of tobacco use among youth in and out of school in Moroto district

2)Determine the factors associated with tobacco use among youth in and out of school in Moroto district

3)Describe the perceptions regarding tobacco use among the school teachers and administrators

4)Explore the cultural role that tobacco use plays in the lives of the youth in Moroto district.

5)Assess adherence to the tobacco control Act within bars and restaurants in Moroto district.

6)Assess youth access to tobacco in Moroto district.

7)Describe the perception of the implementation of tobacco control activities in Moroto district by enforcement officers.

Uganda 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Shaheen Memon Mohamed Zahiruddin
ID:
APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO ANTENATAL ATTENDANCE, MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND FETAL OUTCOMES IN UGANDA
REFNo: HS977ES

1. Establish the factors associated with the number of ANC visits by a pregnant woman who experiences SMM in Uganda.
2. Examine the factors associated with severe maternal morbidity as experienced by pregnant women in Uganda.
3. Assess the maternal factors associated with negative fetal outcomes in Uganda.

Kenya 2020-11-26 2023-11-26 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
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