ARCHILEO KAAYA NATIGO
ID: UNCST-2019-R001477
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Development and evaluation of simplified dietary assessment tools in rural/semi-rural women in Uganda
REFNo: HS63ES
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this study is to design and test simplified dietary assessment tools appropriate for use in rural/ areas of Uganda (and comparable countries) that provide adequate quantitative data at population level (i.e., not individual level) on nutrient intake amounts, their relative adequacy compared to requirements, and their food sources. These methods and tools are intended to be comparable in utility to the multiple pass 24-hour recall, currently considered as the reference method, but with lower labor and resource requirements.
Among women residing in a selected study population in Uganda, the objectives of the study are to:
Objective 1: Design and field test simplified methods and tools for collecting and summarizing 'input data' or information on: (i) the various foods and recipes consumed, (ii) the distribution of usual portion sizes for foods consumed, and (iii) the variation in ingredients and proportion of ingredients in recipes consumed.
Sub-objective 1.1: Compare the results of the two simplified input data collection tools to standard methods described in the multiple pass 24-hour recall for listing of foods consumed, estimation of portion sizes of consumed foods, and calculation of standard recipes.
Sub-objective 1.2: Estimate the time and resource requirements for collection of these input data using the simplified input data collection tools.
Objective 2: Design and field test two simplified dietary data collection methods and tools using (i) a 24-hour dietary recall format and (ii) a semi-quantitative food frequency format.
Sub-objective 2.1: Compare key results of each of the two simplified dietary assessment methods with results from a standard multiple-pass 24-hour recall method conducted in the same study population: (i) mean intake of energy and 13 nutrients; (ii) nutrients for which mean intake is 5% of the Estimated Average Requirement for 13 nutrients.
Sub-objective 2.2: Using data collected by the standard 24-hour dietary recall method, compare the key results (noted in 2.1 above) when food composition data for individual food items is applied to the data vs when food composition data aggregated by food sub-group is applied to the data.
Sub-objective 2.3: Determine and compare the time and resource requirements for implementing each of the simplified survey methods and the standard 24-hour recall method.
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Uganda |
2017-05-17 |
2020-05-17 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Tyler Zoanni
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In the Image of God: Christianity and Disability
REFNo: SS11ES
My research investigates the ideas and practices related to disability that arise within Christian disability ministries in Uganda, where they have become major providers of care and support (housing, advocacy, education, etc.). My research will answer the following questions: 1) In what sense are people with disabilities understood as made in the “image of God� What ideas about disability, models of disabled personhood, and practices of disability sociality and politics do Christian groups in Uganda enact? 2) Why are Christian disability-focused efforts flourishing? 3) What catalyzed the rise of disability ministries? To what extent have ideas and practices centering on disability changed in recent Ugandan history in the context of Christian engagements with disability?
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USA |
2017-05-09 |
2020-05-09 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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John Simaika
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Developing and testing methods for wetland health assessment using dragonflies
REFNo: NS10ES
A major objective of my study is to adapt biomonitoring tools for use on wetlands of Uganda. My project is planned for a two-year period to incorporate seasonal changes with a high degree of confidence. This work will close the knowledge gap on two more objectives to:
(1) quantify the robustness of using dragonflies as indicators of wetland integrity in the region; and,
How representative are the richness and species composition of the integrity of wetland ecosystems in comparison to wetland plants, a commonly used indicator?
(2) quantify the performance of the ecological integrity indices.
How representative are the ecological integrity indices of wetland health (e.g. correlation with Wet-Health)? How much effort is needed to use the dragonfly indices in the field? How much effort is needed to calculate and interpret the indices? Is this effort more or less than that needed for conventional methods (e.g. Wet-Health)?
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Germany |
2017-05-09 |
2020-05-09 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Bruno Braak Jim
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Access to land and justice among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
REFNo: SS67ES
This proposed research would contribute to my PhD dissertation. It would draw on a prior period of three months of intensive and collaborative field research in South Sudan as a basis to compare current perceptions and practices with. The objective of this proposed research would be to discover the changes and continuities in Western Equatorians’ access to land and justice mechanisms. Doing so, it hopes to shed light on the impact of the process of forced displacement to Uganda. Conceptually, this research would draw on notions and practices around authority, identity and property. Special attention will be devoted to the differentiated impact according to gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic background.
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Netherlands |
2017-05-09 |
2020-05-09 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Agnes Kiragga
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Tracing non-rEtained HIV PoSitivE Pregnant Women enrolled in Option B+ and ascertaining their BabIeS outcomes (sTEPWISe)
REFNo: HS35ES
Specific Aim 1: Trace women, initiated ART under option B+ who disengaged from care and assess reasons for disengagement, as well as obtain corrected estimates of retention by evaluating the proportion of mothers who have re-engaged or died.\r\nSpecific Aim 2: Assess and compare HIV transmission rates among infants born to retained and disengaged mothers. \r\nSub-aim 2.1. Perform HIV DNA PCR testing on the infants of disengaged women \r\nSub-aim 2.2 Obtain HIV status data on infants of retained women from existing medical records, or by providing HIV DNA-PCR testing for untested-infants or those whose test was performed within the previous month.\r\nSpecific Aim 3: To measure efavirenz (EFV) levels in the blood collected from all re-engaged and a matched sample of retained women. \r\nSpecific Aim 4: To perform genotypic testing among retained and disengaged women with virologic failure defined as viral load ≥1,000 copies/ml in order to describe mutations that are known to confer drug resistance. \r\n
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Uganda |
2017-05-05 |
2020-05-05 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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