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Margaret Mangheni Najjingo
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Women empowerment, normative influence and project outcomes in Central Uganda
REFNo: SS1942ES

To identify factors that influence women’s economic empowerment within farming communities.

To explore the community construction of femininities and how it influences women’s economic empowerment within agricultural project intervention areas.

To explore the community construction of masculinities and how it influence women’s economic empowerment within agricultural project intervention areas

To find out the factors that influence women’s economic empowerment and household food security within agricultural project intervention areas

 Uganda 2024-01-22 11:38:01 2027-01-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Waiswa Peter
ID: UNCST-2020-R014921
 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PARTNER-LED IMPLEMENTATION IN IMPROVING DIGITAL PAYMENT AND CAMPAIGN QUALITY DURING THE YELLOW FEVER CAMPAIGN IN UGANDA: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
REFNo: SS2221ES

To determine gender norms and relations and their influence on health workers’ response to payment systems (cash vs mobile money) and how these affect the health workers’ performance and motivation in yellow fever vaccination campaigns,To explore the effect of implementing a partner-led digital payment system on the Motivation, Satisfaction, and performance of vaccination campaign health workers,To establish the vaccination coverage of yellow fever in different geographies (equity),To document partner-led implementation process of the Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination campaign,To assess the effectiveness of partner-led Yellow Fever campaign and its effect on digital health worker payments and campaign coverage in Uganda.,
 Uganda 2024-01-22 11:26:43 2027-01-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Susan  Nabadda Ndidde
ID: UNCST-2020-R014331
 OUTCOMES OF PEDIATRIC PATIENTS DIAGNOSED BY MORPHOLOGY ALONE VERSUS FLOW CYTOMETRY PLUS MORPHOLOGY: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
REFNo: HS3352ES

To compare the treatment outcomes between patients diagnosed with the help of flow cytometry with those diagnosed without the help of flow cytometry.,To determine the accuracy of diagnosis of acute leukemia between patients diagnosed with the help of flow cytometry with those diagnosed without the help of flow cytometry.,To assess the time to treatment initiation among patients diagnosed with the help of flow cytometry and those diagnosed without the help of flow cytometry,
 Uganda 2024-01-22 11:25:41 2027-01-22 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Nathan Kenya-Mugisha
ID: UNCST-2021-R013752
 Using Video-Enhanced Teaching to Increase Maternal Participation in Neonatal Hospital Care
REFNo: SS2030ES

3. To evaluate by survey the perspectives of healthcare workers on their availability to devote to video-assisted maternal education in a neonatal hospital unit in Uganda.,2. To identify maternal and/or neonatal factors that impact the amount of time needed to train mothers to weigh their baby, assess for danger signs, and track feeds using video-assisted teaching.,1. To determine the mean nursing time required to train mothers to perform three specific tasks: (1) weigh their baby, (2) assess for danger signs, and (3) track feeds when facilitated by video-assisted teaching.,The purpose of this study is to evaluate a video that teaches mothers how to monitor their baby in a neonatal hospital unit in Uganda. This is with the goal of reducing the amount of time healthcare workers need to spend teaching mothers and ultimately improving the quality of care that sick and small newborns receive in the hospital. ,
 Uganda 2024-01-22 10:45:51 2027-01-22 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Grace Kebirungi
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A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE CAUSES OF SLOW ADOPTION OF VIRTUAL REALITY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION IN KAMPALA, UGANDA
REFNo: SIR261ES

Primary objective: To assess the causes of slow adoption of VR in medical education in Kampala ,Uganda Secondary objectives: 1. To identify perceptions of medical students, interns, lecturers at Makerere School of Medicine, doctors and medical association leads in Kampala towards use of VR in medical education. 2.To assess the VR programming capacity in Kampala, Uganda 3 To identify key policy guidelines that would empower VR in Uganda.
Uganda 2024-01-11 13:14:59 2027-01-11 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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