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Harriet Aber
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Child and Adolescent Substance Use in Mbale district, Uganda: prevalence, help seeking, facility readiness and Acceptability of CRAFFT screening
REFNo: HS2182ES

To examine the prevalence of substance, use and help-seeking among children and adolescents, facility readiness and the acceptability of CRAFFT screening for child and adolescent substance use in Mbale district.
Uganda 2022-06-20 11:04:14 2025-06-20 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
ROSCO KASUJJA
ID: UNCST-2019-R000504
PlayMatters: formative study to gain insight in child-caregiver interactions at home to better understand possible opportunities to strengthen readiness to engage in learning through play.
REFNo: SS1272ES

The primary objective of this study is to explore and describe child-caregiver interactions with a focus on play, identify caregiver, household and community-level influences on child-caregiver interactions, and describe barriers and opportunities for supportive interactions that will positively influence the holistic development of children in this context.,
Uganda 2022-06-16 17:35:39 2025-06-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Leonie Eva Benker
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On the emergence of a "post-postcolonial" political imaginary in Uganda
REFNo: SS1282ES

MAIN OBJECTIVES 1. Gain deeper insights into the role that historical-political narratives play in political and social transformation processes, 2. Achieve a better understanding of the transformative potential of political movements in terms of their concrete strategies, practices, and (media) performances, 3. Determine the extent to which the new political forces and developments in Uganda might indicate the emergence of a fundamentally new social and political formation characterized by a move away from a postcolonial and toward a "post-postcolonial" societal self-conception and political imaginary. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES a) Provide a comprehensive account of which historical-political narratives are currently being (re)produced and disseminated in the education sector and which alternative narratives might appear in this context and could be of relevance to A-level and university students. b) Describe how youths and young adults in Uganda today (re)interpret, (re)evaluate and (re)classify events of their country's political past and present and how they might aim to utilize and apply these altered / newly constructed historical-political narratives in and for the formation of their identities as political actors and citizens of the Ugandan nation-state. c) Delineate how these newly emerging historical-political narratives possibly differ from the hitherto dominant narratives and explain how they might seek to provide an alternative to the hitherto dominant historical-political stories and to the current political status quo.
Germany 2022-06-16 14:44:52 2025-06-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Jennifer Parkinson
ID: UNCST-2022-R010888
Exploring Human Origins in the Albertine Rift Valley, Uganda
REFNo: SS1257ES

This project will conduct paleoanthropological research in central Africa, at fossil sites located near the shores of Lake Albert in the western branch of the Rift in western Uganda (Albertine Rift). Our goal is to investigate the diversity of adaptive challenges faced by early human ancestors, in order to better understand the forces driving human evolution. We will document the distribution and age of sites, collect and describe new fossil and archaeological evidence, and re-examine previous collections in the Uganda Museum. Drawing on the team’s expertise in innovative approaches in archaeology, paleoecology, and geochronology, we aim to renew human origins research in this underexplored region.
USA 2022-06-16 14:43:10 2025-06-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Gumisirizah Nicholus
ID: UNCST-2021-R011816
Effect of problem based learning on students' academic achievement in physics at lower secondary school level in Sheema District
REFNo: SS1304ES

To compare the improvement in students' academic achievement in physics after implementation of Problem based learning instruction and those with traditional approach
To assess the improvement in students' critical thinking skills developed after the implementation of problem based learning instruction and those traditional approach
To assess the improvement in problem solving skills developed after implementation of problem based learning and those with traditional approach
To determine variations in students' academic achievement in physics for government and private lower secondary schools in Sheema
Uganda 2022-06-15 18:47:56 2025-06-15 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Esther Nanfuka Kalule
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MENTAL RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND SUICIDAL IDEATION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF ADOLESCENTS LIVING WITH HIV IN UGANDA
REFNo: SS1307ES

Study Purpose
The study will examine mental resilience among ALHIV in Uganda in regard to how they manage psychosocial risk posed by anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation to realise what they consider a normal and full life for adolescents within their socio-cultural settings.

Specific objectives
1.To explore ALHIV’s conceptualisations of a normal and full adolescence within their socio-cultural settings.

2.To examine the psychosocial constraints that suffering from anxiety and/or, depression and suicidal ideation pose to the realisation of a normal and full life as defined by ALHIV in Uganda.

3.To examine the protective factors that enable ALHIV in Uganda to manage the psychosocial risk posed by the mental health conditions of anxiety and/or depression and suicidal ideation to realise a normal and full life within their socio-cultural context.

Uganda 2022-06-15 18:46:25 2025-06-15 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Clare Kaijabwango
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NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS’ AID-FUNDED PROJECTS AND VALUE FOR MONEY IN UGANDA
REFNo: SS1305ES

To assess how effective NGO aid-funded projects have been in Uganda;
ii) To establish how relevant NGO aid-funded projects have been in Uganda;
iii) To examine the cost of NGO aid-funded projects in Uganda;
iv.) To assess how efficient NGO aid-funded projects have been in Uganda.

Uganda 2022-06-15 18:44:15 2025-06-15 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
BRENDA GATI MIREMBE
ID: UNCST-2021-R013390
A cohort for evaluation of open-label PrEP delivery and PrEP preferences among African women. Protocol version 1.0 dated 02 February 2022
REFNo: HS2274ES

1. Estimate HIV incidence using the recency testing on samples from women who screen out due to HIV infection, as well as assess HIV incidence prospectively in the cohort.

2. Assess the characteristics of women who initiate PrEP compared to those who do not initiate PrEP.

3. Evaluate young women’s preferences for attributes of long-acting formulations of PrEP, using a discrete choice experiment.

4. Assess the acceptability of a patient-facing PrEP decision support tool to provide young women more informed choice about PrEP options.
Uganda 2022-06-15 18:42:27 2025-06-15 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
SSEMBATYA RENNY
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Quasi Experimental Study to Determine the Association Between the Provision of Prenatal Ultrasound and Neonatal and Maternal Outcomes in Rural Uganda
REFNo: HS1994ES

1) To assess the relationship between US program at rural Health Centers in an LMIC rand the need for neonatal resuscitation in the form of bag-mask ventilation at delivery.
2) To determine the relationship between an US program at rural Health Centers in an LMIC setting and the number of maternal hemorrhage cases.
3) To estimate the effect of an obstetric US program in a rural LMIC setting on stillbirth, neonatal mortality and maternal death within the first 28 days post-delivery.
4) To determine the relationship between an US program and referral and management decisions at rural Health Centers in an LMIC setting.
5) To compare the effect of an US program in the rural LMIC setting with the effect in a refugee camp setting.

Uganda 2022-06-15 18:39:46 2025-06-15 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Kyazze Richard
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Family Support Systems as Predictors for Alcohol Addiction Recovery Status in Uganda. A case of selected treatment facilities in Kampala and Wakiso Districts
REFNo: SS1281ES

1. To analyses the influence of family subsystems on alcohol addiction recovery among the relapse( case) and non- relapse (control) individuals in Kampala and Wakiso Districts Uganda.
2. To assess the effects of family communication on the alcohol addiction recovery status among the relapse (case) and non- relapse ( control) individuals in Kampala and Wakiso Districts Uganda.
3. To evaluate the mediating effect of recovery factors on family support systems and the alcohol addiction recovery status among individuals form the selected treatment facilities in Kampala and Wakiso Districts Uganda
Uganda 2022-06-14 15:11:17 2025-06-14 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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