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Mary Grace  Nakate Nakate
ID:
Experience of Social Isolation and social distancing for Women and significant others in the Family on Continuity of Care in the First 1000 days of life During the COVID 19 Pandemic in Mbale Uganda. Version:
REFNo: HS675ES

To explore the experiences of social isolation and distancing for women on continuity of care in the first 1000 days of life during the COVID 19 pandemic at Bunghokho-Mutoto Sub-county. Mbale, District. To describe the experiences of social isolation and distancing for women’s significant others in the family on continuity of care in the first 1000 days of life during the COVID 19 pandemic at Bunghokho-Motto, Mbale District.
Uganda 2020-12-15 2023-12-15 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Adeline Boatin
ID: UNCST-2019-R001255
Caesarean delivery in Uganda: a mixed methods study
REFNo: HS758ES

1. To use survey methods to explore practice patterns of clinicians around caesarean usage in Uganda.

2. To use qualitative methods to explore practice patterns of clinicians and clinical policy makers around caesarean usage in Uganda

3. To describe CS rates, factors associated with CS and maternal and neonatal outcomes according to Robson group classification at Regional Referral Hospitals and large private non-profit hospitals in Uganda

Ghana 2020-12-15 2023-12-15 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Dickens Akena Howard
ID: UNCST-2019-R000179
Integration of mental health care in communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic - A cluster randomized trial of 24 villages in central Uganda
REFNo: HS1009ES

Our objectives will include: (a) Documenting MHL, PD, MDD, GAD, PTSD and SUD levels in the study population, (b) Determining the effectiveness of a psycho-education intervention delivered by village health team (VHT) members on study outcomes, (c) Determining the cost and cost effectiveness of delivering a psycho-education intervention, and (d) linking individuals in need of mental health care with the MOH psychosocial teams.
Uganda 2020-12-15 2023-12-15 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Annet Namugaya Waibi
ID:
Pedagogical approaches of English Language curriculum on learners outcome in public secondary schools in Iganga District.
REFNo: SS578ES

1. To establish ways in which the content expertise for English Language teachers defines student learning outcomes in public secondary schools in Iganga District.
2. To map out the significance of instructional design skills by English language teachers on students learning outcomes in public secondary schools in Iganga District.
3. To determine the implications of English language teachers assessment techniques on student's learning outcome in public secondary schools in Iganga District.
4. To ascertain the contributions of classroom management by English language teachers on students learning outcomes in public secondary schools in Iganga District.

Uganda 2020-12-11 2023-12-11 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Conrad Muzoora Kihembe
ID: UNCST-2019-R001432
Intensified tuberculosis treatment to reduce the mortality of HIV-infected and uninfected patients with tuberculosis meningitis: a Phase III Randomized Controlled Trial. ANRS 12398 INTENSE-TBM
REFNo: HS804ES

The Primary objective is to assess the efficacy of two interventions to reduce mortality from TBM in adolescent and adults with or without HIV co-infection in sub-Saharan Africa:
• Intensified TBM treatment, compared to WHO standard TBM treatment
• Aspirin compared to not receiving Aspirin (placebo).

Uganda 2020-12-10 2023-12-10 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Irene Among Among
ID:
A Gender, youth and social inclusion analysis of Pathfinder’s family planning program in Kyegegwa, Kyenjojo, Kibaale, Kyankwanzi, Buliisa, Ntoroko, Bundibugyo, Kiryandongo, Gomba, Rakai and Butambala districts
REFNo: SS646ES

1. To identify the vulnerable/marginalized/underserved and hard-to-reach population segments in the FPA catchment districts.
2. To define the systemic barriers faced by such population segments in accessing SRH/FP information and services, structured around the six domains of USAID’s gender analysis framework - access, beliefs, practices, time/space, rights, and power.
3. To make recommendations on innovative approaches that the FPA could take to address barriers and improve access to quality reproductive health services and adoption of positive reproductive health behaviors.
4. With precision to gender and youth, to provide further recommendations as appropriate, on innovative strategies based on local needs, to mainstream gender and youth programming into national/district health planning by detailing specific gender-focused and youth-focused activities for each result area of the project.

Uganda 2020-12-10 2023-12-10 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Lawrence Mugisha
ID:
MONITORING OF DISEASES AND ANTIMICROBIAL USE IN POULTRY FARMING BY USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE (AMR) IN WAKISO DISTRICT; UGANDA
REFNo: A100ES

The overall objective of the project is to provide an ICT framework for improved monitoring and control of AMU and AMR in poultry farmers in Wakiso District, Uganda.

Specific objectives

• To perform a stakeholder analysis in order to establish all players in poultry farming systems in Wakiso District
• To examine practices, attitudes, knowledge and behavior of poultry farmers in Wakiso District
• To collect data on poultry diseases, access and use of antibiotics in Wakiso district
• To develop and deploy an ICT platform to monitor AMU, AMR and disease prevalence’s in poultry in Wakiso District
• To examine the role of ICT in the implementation and management of Poultry projects in Wakiso District

Uganda 2020-12-09 2023-12-09 Agricultural Sciences Non-degree Award
Haruna Muwonge
ID: UNCST-2019-R000128
SUPPLEMENTS, HERBS AND DOPING PRODUCTS USAGE AMONG UGANDAN ATHLETES AND COACHES
REFNo: SS507ES

1. To evaluate supplement and herbal product usage amongst athletes from all major sporting codes in Uganda
2. To evaluate the usage of doping substances or methods amongst Ugandan athletes from all major sporting codes.
3. To determine the existing framework for intervening in herbal products usage among athletes and support personnel in Uganda
4. To examine the existence of anti-drug abuse interventions targeting the misuse of herbal products among Ugandan athletes and support personnel.
5. To determine the level of susceptibility to doping agent usage among Ugandan athletes and suggest recommendations for an intervention.

Uganda 2020-12-08 2023-12-08 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Dominic Kathiya Lokeris
ID:
Characterization of Cross Border Livestock Mobility and Utilization of Rangeland Resources: A Case Study of Karamoja Cluster
REFNo: A91ES

Broad Objective:
To characterize cross-border livestock mobility and assess the utilization of rangeland pastures and water in the Karamoja cluster.

Specific objectives:
1.To describe cross-border livestock mobility in Karamoja cluster.
2.To assess the knowledge, practices and perceptions of pastoral communities on utilization of rangeland pastures and water in Karamoja Cluster.
3.To establish the decision makers of livestock mobility and utilization of the rangeland pastures and water in Karamoja Cluster.

Uganda 2020-12-08 2023-12-08 Agricultural Sciences Degree Award
Wilfred Eneku
ID:
Molecular and Sero-epidemiology of zoonotic rickettsia in five districts of Uganda
REFNo: HS897ES

1. To determine seroprevalence and risk factors to rickettsioses in the five districts from archived serum samples and the accompanying secondary data
2. To characterize rickettsia in Vectors in five districts of Uganda
3. To assess the relative densities of ticks and fleas on animals and environment in the five districts of Uganda

Uganda 2020-12-08 2023-12-08 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Kristie McComb
ID:
Evaluation of the Patient Navigation Program at Uganda Cancer Institute
REFNo: HS1014ES

The goal of this study is to document the experiences and lessons learned (through a baseline and endline process evaluation), and the ways in which this program improved outcomes for cancer patients (through an outcome evaluation). These evaluations will document best practices for other countries considering similar projects, provide programmatic evidence on the usability and effectiveness of the program development methodology, and guide development of a resource toolkit for other health institutions like UCI seeking to start a patient navigation program.

The evaluation questions are:

Process Evaluation (2020 and 2021)
1. Coordination and Referral: Has the patient navigation program increased coordination/ referral of patients within Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) and with other support services (e.g. Civil Society Organizations (CSO), psychosocial services and other necessary services)?
2. Fidelity and Adaptation: To what extent is the patient navigation program implemented as intended and what changes to the program have been made over time?
3. Improving Understanding of Care: To what extent does the patient navigation program reduce barriers to understanding cancer diagnosis and accessing treatment services and how does patient navigation increase adherence to patient treatment plans?
4. Training and Technical Assistance: How effective is the training and technical assistance provided by American Cancer Society (ACS) in supporting new patient navigation program design, preparation and implementation?
5. Sustainability: How prepared is the program to transition to UCI ownership?

Outcome Evaluation (2023)
1. To what extent, if at all, are the program activities focused on addressing the needs of the target population?
2. To what extent do decision makers and other stakeholders view patient navigation as the right intervention to address challenges to patient access to cancer treatment?
3. How effective is the patient navigation program at improving hospital processes and service delivery?
4. How effective is the patient navigation program at improving desired outcomes at the individual patient and caregiver level?
5. How effective is the training and technical assistance provided by ACS in supporting new patient navigation program design, preparation and implementation?
6. To what extent is the patient navigator program likely to continue after ACS support ends?

USA 2020-12-08 2023-12-08 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Pontiano  Kaleebu
ID: UNCST-2020-R019901
Clinical characterization and preparedness for COVID-19 disease (CCP)
REFNo: HS1041ES

• Describe the clinical features of COVID-19 and monitor the progress of all hospitalized patients including what is working and what is not.
• Describe, where appropriate, the response to treatment, including supportive care and novel therapeutics.
• Observe, where appropriate and feasible, pathogen replication, excretion and evolution, within the host, and identify determinants of severity and transmission using high throughput sequencing of pathogen genomes obtained from respiratory tract, blood, urine, stool and other samples.
• Characterise, where appropriate and feasible, the host responses to infection and therapy over time, including innate and acquired immune responses, levels of immune signaling molecules in relevant body compartments and gene expression profiles in peripheral blood.
• Understand transmissibility and the probabilities of different clinical outcomes following exposure and infection.
• To describe COVID 19 related haematological and biochemical changes

Uganda 2020-12-08 2023-12-08 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Charity Okaba
ID:
Understanding Community-oriented Prosocial Behaviors in Uganda
REFNo: SS641ES

The proposed study aims to investigate and contextually define relevant categories of prosocial behaviors and the demographics and individual characteristics associated with such prosocial behaviors, in Uganda. There are three major reasons that motivate why this research is much needed:
Firstly, this research will aim to define prosocial behaviors in the context of Uganda and demonstrate methods to capture and categorize them, both of which have currently been defined by Western research. We seek to understand the variations in the way people perceive and engage in prosocial behaviors in an under-researched context and contribute our results to the existing body of literature.
Second, this research will further explore how individual characteristics (both demographics and psychographic) are associated with different contextualized categories of prosocial behaviors. Existing research has largely explored demographic links to some extent but has overlooked the link between other individual differences to the level of engagement with prosocial behaviors.
Finally, the results from the proposed research will have far-reaching impacts for social and community development, including but not limited to community-based groups, as well as researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Our research can be easily used to guide the design and framing of communication to encourage engagement in prosocial behavior that promote community development and improve welfare.
Uganda 2020-12-08 2023-12-08 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Daniel  Kaye Kabonge
ID:
COUNTRY-WIDE ESTIMATES OF THE INCIDENCE OF ABORTION AND ABORTION-RELATED MORBIDITY IN UGANDA
REFNo: HS1074ES

To systematically generate reliable nationwide evidence on the scale and distribution of the burden of unsafe abortion in Uganda and its effects, so as to engage policy and decision makers through further discussion of the subject in a amore contextualized manner. Specifically, to establish the incidence and distribution of unsafe abortion in Uganda, to estimate the effects of the burden of unsafe abortion in Uganda (in terms of magnitude of abortion complications) and to provide recommendations for decision makers on future programming for abortion care in Uganda
Uganda 2020-12-08 2023-12-08 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Laban Musinguzi Kashaija
ID: UNCST-2020-R014407
The Situation of, and Impact of COVID-19 on school going girls and young women in Uganda
REFNo: SS676ES

The study will be guided by five specific objectives, which include the following;
1. Prevalence estimate of early marriages and adolescent pregnancies among school going girls during the Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda.
2. Describe the drivers of sexual engagement among school going girls during the Covid-19 pandemic.
3. Assess the level of participation of school going girls in available learning opportunities and their continued interest in education during the pandemic and the post-Covid-19 period.
4. Examine the involvement of school going girls in economic activities during the Covid-19 pandemic and the effects of this on the lives of school going girls.
5. Identify possible innovations to support girls to continue with education during the COVID-19 Pandemic and in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Uganda 2020-12-04 2023-12-04 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Richard Nyeko
ID: UNCST-2021-R012815
Prognostic factors, Clinical outcomes and Survival among childhood cancer patients in northern Uganda: a five-year retrospective review of records
REFNo: HS884ES

General objective
To determine the prognostic factors, clinical outcomes and survival among children with cancer in northern Uganda treated in a low resourced non-specialized upcountry cancer treatment centre over a five year period from January 2014 to December 2018
Specific objectives
1. To determine the outcomes of children with cancer in northern Uganda treated at St. Mary’s hospital Lacor from January 2014 to December 2018
2. To establish the 1- and 2-year survival rates of children with cancer in northern Uganda treated at St. Mary’s hospital Lacor from January 2014 to December 2018
3. To determine the predictors of outcomes among children with cancer in northern Uganda treated at St. Mary’s hospital Lacor from January 2014 to December 2018

Uganda 2020-12-03 2023-12-03 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
ANNETTEE NAKIMULI OLIVIA
ID: UNCST-2022-R011194
Early pregnancy predictors of pre-eclampsia and its adverse outcomes in Uganda: a prospective cohort study at a busy peri-urban hospital
REFNo: HS918ES

1) To determine the exposures (epidemiological, clinical, laboratory) linked to pre-eclampsia and its adverse outcomes.
2) To determine the positive predictive value of screening using biomarkers (soluble Flt-1 and placental growth factor) and serial ultrasound for pre-eclampsia and its adverse outcomes.
3) To generate a resource of data and biological samples to facilitate hypothesis driven and discovery based approaches to identifying novel predictors and/or mechanisms of pre-eclampsia.

Uganda 2020-12-03 2023-12-03 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Emanuele Colonnelli
ID:
INFORMATION FRICTIONS IN GOVERNMENT-FIRM RELATIONSHIPS
REFNo: SS606ES

The broad objective of our research is to provide the first comprehensive
understanding of the market for government contracts in a LIC country, with an emphasis on understanding what are the main challenges to the participation of firms to the procurement process and to the competitiveness and efficiency of public procurement.
Italy 2020-12-03 2023-12-03 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
GRACE MBABAZI
ID:
HIV AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN UGANDA A Narrative exploration of lived experiences of HIV positive in- patients that develop comorbid Psychiatric disorders in Uganda, A Psychoanalytic Psychotherapeutic Perspective
REFNo: HS614ES

Aim and objectives
The proposed study intended to explore the lived experiences of people with HIV infection who develop psychiatric disorders using a psychotherapeutic approach. To fulfil this aim, the following objectives will be met:
• Explore the experiences of people with HIV and co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses
• Understand the lived experiences through a psychotherapeutic perspective
• Establish the key challenges facing this patient group and implications of these findings for future research

UK 2020-12-02 2023-12-02 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
Peter Akera Akera
ID:
ORAL HEALTH AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS IN GULU DISTRICT, NORTHERN UGANDA
REFNo: HS700ES

1. To determine oral health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among children (11-13 years).
2. To describe the current oral health status of children (11-13 years).
3. To explore schoolteacher’s perceptions and knowledge in relation to oral health, risk factors, and their contribution in health promotion.
4. To explore the oral health promotion experiences in schools among leaders, stakeholders and policy makers.

Uganda 2020-12-02 2023-12-02 Medical and Health Sciences Degree Award
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