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PAULA KWOREKWA
ID: UNCST-2024-R005035
 Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Medical Waste Management among Waste Handlers at Luweero General Hospital
REFNo: HS5350ES

Main Objective:
To investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the Knowledge, attitude, and practice of medical waste management among waste handlers at Luweero General Hospital.
Specific Objectives:
1. To determine the knowledge of medical waste handlers in recommended waste management practices following the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. To investigate the attitude of medical waste handlers towards practicing the recommendations for proper Medical Waste Management in the post COVID-19 pandemic era.
3. To compare the practices for medical waste management before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.


Uganda 2024-12-23 11:37:27 2027-12-23 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
David Aziku
ID: UNCST-2023-R007595
 Baseline Study for Safe and Inclusive Cities Project -Uganda.
REFNo: SS3476ES

To evaluate the achievement of the programme’s intended outcomes, integrating qualitative insights and quantitative data on change in outcome indicators over time (from endline to end-line).

Identify and validate good practices, learnings, and examples of innovation on gender transformative programming.

To generate practical recommendations related to the programme outcomes and the approaches to inform future programming.
 Uganda 2024-12-23 11:36:17 2027-12-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Rebecca Nansubuga Kaaya
ID: UNCST-2024-R002104
 Piloting a frugally innovated surgical fracture table in Uganda: Assessing its functionality, usability, and acceptability.
REFNo: SIR454ES

To pilot a frugally innovated surgical fracture table in Uganda and assess its functionality, usability, and acceptability in resource-limited healthcare settings through:
1. To evaluate the functionality of the frugally innovated surgical fracture table selected healthcare professionals by assessing its ability to: securely position patients, allow for stable positioning and smooth adjustment of the tentative limb position.
2. To assess the usability of the surgical fracture table selected healthcare professionals by measuring: the time required for set-up, the perceived ease of use of the table, the perceived comfort levels during manipulation.
3. To determine the acceptability of the surgical fracture table among selected healthcare professionals by assessing: their overall satisfaction with the table's design, functionality, and usability, willingness to recommend or use the table in their clinical practice and their perceptions of the table's potential impact on patient outcomes and safety

 Uganda 2024-12-23 11:35:30 2027-12-23 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Afiz Kibuuka Kibuuka
ID: UNCST-2021-R012755
 A phase III, Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo Controlled, Double blind Study to Assess Efficacy and Safety of Crizanlizumab (5 mg/kg) versus placebo, with or without Hydroxyurea/Hydroxycarbamide Therapy, in Adolescent and Adult Sickle Cell Disease Patients with Frequent Vaso-Occlusive Crises
REFNo: HS5365ES

To compare the efficacy of 5 mg/kg of crizanlizumab versus placebo, with or without hydroxyurea/hydroxycarbamide, on the annualized rate of VOCs* that are healthcare professional (HCP)-managed (including VOCs leading to management at a health care facility or those managed via remote consultation) over the planned 52-week treatment period in SCD patients aged 12 years and older with a history of frequent VOCs (4-12 events in 12 months prior to the screening visit).
To compare the efficacy of 5 mg/kg of crizanlizumab versus placebo, with or without hydroxyurea/hydroxycarbamide, on the annualized rate of all VOCs including VOCs that are HCP-managed (including VOCs leading to management at a health care facility or those managed via remote consultation) and VOCs that are self-managed without recommendations from HCP during the event over the planned 52 week treatment period in SCD patients aged 12 years and older with a history of frequent VOCs (4-12 events in the 12 months prior to the Screeening visit
To evaluate the annualized rate of VOCs by type of management between treatment arms over the planned 52-week treatment period: • VOCs that are HCP-managed at a health care facility • VOCs that are HCP-managed via remote consultation • VOCs that are self-managed without recommendations from HCP during the event • VOCs that are HCP-managed via remote consultation or self-managed without recommendations from HCP during the event
To evaluate the time to first VOC that is HCP managed (including VOCs leading to management at a health care facility or those managed via remote consultation) between treatment arms over the planned 52-week treatment period.
To evaluate the proportion of participants free from VOCs that are HCP-managed (including VOCs leading to management at a health care facility or those managed via remote consultation) between treatment arms over the planned 52-week treatment period.
 Uganda 2024-12-23 11:34:49 2027-12-23 Medical and Health Sciences Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Wakib Bunnya
ID: UNCST-2024-R016233
 An analysis of youth participation in elections
REFNo: SS3488ES

Three key objectives guide the research: first, to examine the role of voter education in shaping youth participation; second, to analyze the inclusion of young women and youth with disabilities in elections; and third, to explore the role of youth in peacebuilding and election-related violence.
Uganda 2024-12-23 11:32:13 2027-12-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Spencer  Birungi
ID: UNCST-2024-R003017
 TRANSBOUNDARY MIGRATION SURVEILLANCE CONTROLS AND THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES MONITORING MECHANISMS: THE CASE OF WEST NILE UGANDA-DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
REFNo: SS3504ES

1. To describe the transboundary migration patterns along the West Nile Uganda – DRC borderline
2. To explore the transboundary migration infectious disease monitoring in practice along the West Nile Uganda –DRC borderline
3. To establish the association between the transboundary migration surveillance controls and the practices in monitoring of infectious diseases at border points; of entry
4. To describe the adherence to protocols for infectious disease monitoring before, during and after the outbreaks at border points of entry


 Uganda 2024-12-23 11:29:01 2027-12-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
MARGARET NAKATO
ID: UNCST-2024-R002167
 LIBRARY SERVICE QUALITY AND USER SATISFACTION AMONG GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE FACULTIES OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY, UGANDA
REFNo: SS3545ES

The objectives of the study are to:
1. Establish the effect of tangibility on graduate students' satisfaction with library services at Kyambogo University.
2. Determine the effect of reliability on graduate students' satisfaction with library services at Kyambogo University.
3. Examine the effect of empathy on graduate students' user satisfaction with library services at Kyambogo University.
4. Establish the effect of responsiveness on graduate students' user satisfaction with library services at Kyambogo University.
5. Determine the effect of assurance on graduate students' user satisfaction with library services at Kyambogo University.
6. Develop a framework for measuring library service quality at Kyambogo university
 Uganda 2024-12-23 11:27:18 2027-12-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Lily Bastian R
ID: UNCST-2024-R002139
 A Mixed Methods Study on Psychosocial and Health Practices Among Young People Living with HIV (YPLHIV) in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: HS5354ES

The objective of this study is to assess the impact of resilience on sexual practices, behaviors, and health-related outcomes among young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) in Kampala, Uganda.
 USA 2024-12-23 11:24:59 2027-12-23 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Andrew Seguya Ggunga
ID: UNCST-2024-R002054
 Assessing the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index as A Framework for Uganda's Tourism Growth
REFNo: SS3501ES

To create a prioritised ranking of factors that accurately predict tourism and travel growth in Uganda, using data-driven methods and expert analysis to measure the impact of each factor on key growth indicators such as tourist arrivals, revenue, and employment.,To investigate, over the same period, whether there are factors not included in the WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index framework that effectively predict T&T growth in Uganda.,This study will investigate, using data from the Tourism Master Plan 2014-2024, whether the factors included in the WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index framework (such as infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and government policies) effectively predict T&T growth in Uganda, measured through indicators of tourist arrivals, revenue, and employment.,
 Uganda 2024-12-23 11:23:37 2027-12-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
John Francis Mafuko Francis
ID: UNCST-2024-R002186
 Management of medicinal indigenous knowledge on snakebites in selected districts of Eastern Uganda.
REFNo: SS3517ES

i.To examine the sharing of the medicinal indigenous knowledge by the snakebites herbalists’ in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda.
ii. To establish the essential kind of information to be documented by the medicinal indigenous herbalists on snakebites management in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda for future use.
iii. To establish whether there is incorporation of the explicit medicinal indigenous herbalists’ knowledge on snakebites by the medical practitioners in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda.
iv. To evaluate the likelihood of the community in using the two-eyed seeing framework to integrate western knowledge and indigenous knowledge to deal with the snakebites in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda.
v. To propose a medicinal indigenous snakebites herbalists’ knowledge management framework in Pallisa and Kamuli districts of Eastern Uganda.

Uganda 2024-12-23 11:21:49 2027-12-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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