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Joseph  Matovu KB
ID: UNCST-2020-R014654
Willingness to take COVID-19 vaccine and uptake of locally adapted COVID-19 prevention measures among high-risk populations in Malaba and Mutukula points of entry
REFNo: HS2530ES

i) To assess willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccines among high-risk populations in Malaba and Mutukula points of entry.
ii) To explore facilitators and barriers to willingness to take COVID-19 vaccines among high-risk populations in Malaba and Mutukula points of entry.
iii) To assess uptake of locally adapted COVID-19 prevention measures among high risk populations in Malaba and Mutukula points of entry.
iv) To explore facilitators and barriers of locally adapted COVID-19 prevention measures among high-risk populations in Malaba and Mutukula points of entry.

Uganda 2022-11-11 17:21:54 2025-11-11 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Joseph Kizito BADA
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FOSTERING DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION
REFNo: SS1489ES

Specific Objectives
1) To sensitize and introduce a select sample of 14 teachers from 7 schools to multimedia teaching material and digital stories for teenage reproductive and mental health education with the goal of expanding teachers’ knowledge and skills in use of digital stories and multimedia content as pedagogical tools.
2) To provide hands on training on e-content curriculum creation, multimedia content development, digital stories development and digital game design for teenage reproductive and mental health education.
3) To implement multimedia educational content, multimedia content and digital stories in the 7 schools and train a total of 400 students in reproductive health education.
4) To evaluate effectiveness and impact of cartoon-based stories and multimedia educational materials on the higher level cognitive skills developent of the students.
5) To mentor 10 junior teaching staff in action research through participation in project implementation activities and disseminate the outcomes of the project in the form of online resources, academic and professional publications, conference presentations as well as policy briefs to the government agencies.

Uganda 2022-11-11 17:20:33 2025-11-11 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Jonathan Marino
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How the social and material conditions of teaching influence early grades teachers’ implementation of reading pedagogies
REFNo: SS1509ES

To understand how social and material conditions shape the way teachers think about these reading pedagogies and their own teaching practice.,To understand how early primary educators in Uganda make sense of various reading pedagogies they are asked to undertake, such as mother-tongue instruction and child centered pedagogies.,To understand what are the social and material conditions of teaching experienced by early primary educators in Uganda. and how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced these conditions.,The goal of this study is to explore how early primary teachers in Uganda make sense of and implement new pedagogical approaches to teaching reading and how the social and material constraints of their teaching environment influence their reading instruction.,
USA 2022-11-11 17:18:21 2025-11-11 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
GRACE  MUSINGUZI
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Relationship between family support and self efficacy on resilience among school going adolescent victims of trauma in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SS1475ES

Purpose of the study The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between family support, self-efficacy and resilience among adolescents facing trauma in Kampala, Uganda. Specific objectives 1.To find out the prevalence of trauma among adolescents in Kampala District. 2.To find out the relationship between family support and resilience among adolescent trauma victims. 3.To find out the relationship between family breakdown and resilience among adolescent trauma victims. 4.To find out the relationship between self-efficacy and resilience among adolescent victims of trauma. 5.To explore strategies that can be put in place to foster resilience among traumatised adolescents in broken families in Kampala District.
Uganda 2022-11-11 17:16:15 2025-11-11 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Fred Ssewamala
ID: UNCST-2020-R014060
Suubi+Adherence4Youth: Optimizing the Suubi Intervention for Adherence to HIV Treatment for Youth Living with HIV in Uganda
REFNo: SS1449ES

The proposed Suubi+Adherence4Youth study seeks to unpack the Suubi intervention to identify the most impactful and sustainable components: economic vs. psychosocial components, for adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) across the HIV care continuum. The Suubi intervention was tested as a package of four components: 1) Financial Literacy Training (FLT); 2) Incentivized Matched Youth Savings Accounts (YSA) with income-generating activities (IGAs); 3) a manualized and visual-based intervention for ART adherence and stigma reduction; and 4) Engagement with HIV treatment-experienced role models. We propose a factorial experiment to unpack and optimize the Suubi intervention to enhance scale up in health systems using the multi-phase optimization strategy (MOST) -an engineering-inspired intervention framework. Our ultimate goal is to build Suubi version 2.0 that meaningfully improves viral suppression while performing efficiently, affordably, and at scale for a sustained impact.

Aim 1. Conduct a factorial experiment (optimization trial) to test the main effects of each of the four Suubi intervention components and combinations of components (interactions) on viral suppression (primary outcome).

Aim 2. Test mediators and explore moderators that explain and modify the relationship between each of the four Suubi intervention components and viral suppression.

Aim 3. Compare the cost and cost-effectiveness of each of the four Suubi intervention components and every combination of components.

Uganda 2022-11-11 17:11:59 2025-11-11 Social Science and Humanities Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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