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Emmy Okello
ID: UNCST-2020-R009792
“Active Case Detection and Decentralized Dynamic Registry to Improve the Uptake of Rheumatic Heart Disease Secondary Prevention” (ADD-RHD)
REFNo: HS1561ES

Secondary objectives include technical proficiency, acquisition times, global image quality, and user satisfaction and confidence. Each of these parameters will be reported for the entire training group and a sub-group analysis will look for differences between curriculum groups. Acquisition times and image quality will be compared between trainees and expert sonographers.,To determine the impact of a pragmatic RHD primary prevention program in Uganda,
Uganda 2021-08-30 2024-08-30 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Comfort Mukasa Hajra
ID:
Real-time access to sanitation information for improved management of sanitation services: A case Study in Kawempe division.
REFNo: HS1458ES

Main Objective:
To test if timely access to sanitation information leads to improved sanitation planning, increased access to safely managed sanitation services and improved multi-sectoral collaboration.

Specific Objectives:
1. To design and test the effectiveness of timely access to sanitation information for planning, coordination and access to improved sanitation services.
2. To validate user needs for sanitation service provision in Uganda.
3. To document scalable best practice mechanisms for improved multi-sectoral planning and coordination on sanitation.
Uganda 2021-08-30 2024-08-30 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Eric Awich Ochen
ID: UNCST-2021-R013266
Preventing Gender-based Violence: Video Game Intervention Designed as an Educational Tool to Address Child Marriage in Uganda
REFNo: SS880ES

To assess the effectiveness of the game (Peace) in promoting pro-social attitude/behavior change and empathic capacity among young people to prevent violence.
• Help young people understand what sexual exploitation is and how it is linked to gender inequalities.
• Increase young people’s understanding about how adult power is misused to abuse and silence them.
• Show young people that perpetrators will seek out and exploit young women’s vulnerabilities.
• Help young people understand the impact that sexual coercion has on everyone involved.
• Empower young people in reporting incidents of child sexual abuse and sexual coercion.
• Increase awareness of the role of various agencies/individuals that can help.
• Help young people understand ways in which adults may groom them using various tactics.
• Help young people understand the relationship between sexual coercion and child marriage.
• Give young people the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge, and competencies that can help them make sound decisions for themselves or others in real life situations.
• To support and empower young people in avoiding child marriage


Uganda 2021-08-30 2024-08-30 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
NAMANDE MUGERWA SARAH
ID:
“EKISAAKAATE” (ROYAL ENCLOSURE) PEDAGOGY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MORAL LEARNING OUTCOMES IN BUGANDA KINGDOM IN UGANDA
REFNo: SS975ES

To establish the mediating relationship between multiculturalism and early childhood moral learning outcomes.,To examine the relationship between “ekisaakaate” role play instruction pedagogy and early childhood moral learning outcomes.,To determine the relationship between “ekisaakaate” traditional story telling instruction pedagogy and early childhood moral learning outcomes.,To establish the relationship between “ekisaakaate” living values-based contextual instruction pedagogy and early childhood moral learning outcomes.,To find out the relationship between “ekisaakaate” native language instruction pedagogy and early childhood moral learning outcomes. ,
Uganda 2021-08-30 2024-08-30 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Lazaaro Mujumbusi
ID: UNCST-2023-R007470
Exploring understandings of and attitudes towards Covid-19 in Mayuge district Uganda
REFNo: SS977ES

1. To explore community members' perceptions of COVID-19 and its transmission, with a focus on ideas about responsibility.
2. To investigate how ideas about responsibility intersect with existing inequalities around occupation, tribe, and gender.
3. To examine whether, and how, understandings of COVID-19 transmission have impacted everyday WaSH practices.
4. To develop insight that may be of value to developing interventions aimed at reducing transmission and/or stigma.

Uganda 2021-08-30 2024-08-30 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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