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Examining Parents’ and Teachers’ Support of Early Learning Through Local Play. Case of selected Early Learning Center in Arua City.
REFNo: SS1984ES

To explore the specific practices parents employ when engaging in play with their children at home.

To investigate the specific practices teachers utilize when engaging in local play activities with children in a school setting.

To collaborate with teachers to develop strategies for the effective integration of local play into their teaching methods.

To identify and examine the factors that influence the utilization of local play as a teaching method.
Uganda 2023-10-30 21:09:17 2026-10-30 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Adam Hewitt Smith
ID: UNCST-2019-R001658
The African Critical Illness Outcomes Study
REFNo: HS3338ES

To determine the availability of resources for essential emergency and critical in African hospitals.,To investigate the association between the provision of essential emergency and critical care to critically ill patients and mortality.,To estimate the proportion of critically ill patients who receive essential emergency and critical care.,To establish the mortality rate of the critically ill patients and those who are not critically ill.,To establish the proportion of adult (18 years or older) inpatients in African hospitals that are critically ill.,
UK 2023-10-30 21:08:01 2026-10-30 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
ACAN ROSE LILLY
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PREVALENCE AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INDUCED ABORTION AMONG WOMEN ADMITTED WITH ABORTION AT MBARARA REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL
REFNo: HS3354ES

1. To determine the prevalence of induced abortion among women admitted with abortion at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 2. To determine the factors associated with induced abortion among women admitted with abortion at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital., 3. To describe the complications of induced and spontaneous abortion among women admitted with abortion at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.,
Uganda 2023-10-30 21:06:27 2026-10-30 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
ERICK SSEGUJJA
ID: UNCST-2021-R012964
A POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS OF HEALTH TAXES IN UGANDA
REFNo: HS3167ES

The main objective of this study is to investigate the political economy factors influencing the legislation and implementation of health taxes in Uganda.

Specifically, we will investigate the following specific objectives;
1. To retrospectively assess the processes of legislation and implementation of selected health taxes in Uganda (such as on tobacco products).
2. To examine the facilitators and barriers to the introduction and implementation of new health taxes in Uganda (such as on sugar-sweetened beverages)
3. To critically analyse the frames and underlying assumptions advanced for and against the introduction of health taxes during the legislation processes in Uganda.
4. To examine the trends in pricing, consumption and sales/revenues of unhealthy commodities in Uganda at different tax rates?
5. To steer and trigger advocacy efforts towards the promotion of health taxes as a measure towards implementation of public health interventions to address NCDs through the provision of evidence.

Uganda 2023-10-30 21:05:10 2026-10-30 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Stevens Bechange
ID: UNCST-2022-R009190
Access to eye health care services for older people with disabilities in two districts in Karamoja: a qualitative study
REFNo: SS2006ES

To elicit and synthesise recommendations for how different aspects of the eye health system can be made more inclusive for older men and women with different types of disabilities.,To examine how eye healthcare workers are trained, resourced, and supported to provide services to older men and women with different types of disabilities, within different healthcare facilities in Karamoja.,To understand the experiences of older men and women with disabilities who have successfully sought eye health care in Karamoja and to identify the resources (financial and otherwise) they used on their pathways to access care.,The aim of this study is to explore how older people with disabilities access and are provided with eye health care in Karamoja, Uganda, and to identify opportunities for improvement. ,
Uganda 2023-10-30 21:03:35 2026-10-30 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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