Browsing by Author "Ahumuza, Emmanuel"

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    Community Engagement in Social Innovation Research: A Global Sequential Mixed Methods Analysis
    (ResearchSquare, 2022) Ahumuza, Emmanuel; Moscibrodzki, Patricia; Awor, Phyllis
    Social innovation in health provides innovative solutions to address healthcare delivery gaps and it relies on engaging community. However, little is known about factors that influence community engagement in health research. The study sought an in-depth understanding of elements of community engagement in social innovations identified by the global social innovation in health initiative network.
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    Social Innovation in Health, Community Engagement, Financing and Outcomes: Qualitative Analysis from the Social Innovation in Health Initiative
    (BMJ Innovations, 2022) Moscibrodzki, Patricia; Ahumuza, Emmanuel; Li, Jingjing; Tucker, Joseph D.
    Social innovation in health is a community-engaged process that links social change and health improvement, drawing on the diverse strengths of local individuals and institutions. However, there are few studies that examine community engagement, financing and outcomes. The purpose of this study is to use a qualitative descriptive analysis to assess 40 social innovations in health identified through a global open call.This qualitative analysis examined social innovation case studies from low- and middle-income countries identified by a global social innovation network. A crowdsourcing open call identified projects and key components of each social innovation were evaluated by an independent panel. We used a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention framework to measure community engagement as shared leadership, collaboration, involvement, consultation or informing. We used descriptive statistics to examine key aspects of community engagement, financing, health outcomes and non-health outcomes.
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    Social, Emotional and Economic Empowerment through Knowledge of Group Support Psychotherapy Project, Uganda
    (TDR, 2020) Awor, Phyllis; Ahumuza, Emmanuel
    The Social, Emotional and Economic empowerment through Knowledge of Group Support Psychotherapy (SEEK-GSP) project is implemented by Makerere University in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The project aims at narrowing the treatment gap for depression among people living HIV using group support psychotherapy delivered by trained lay health workers in Northern Uganda. Globally, the advent of antiretroviral therapy has led to improved quality of life of people living with HIV (Mugavero et al., 2009; Oguntibeju, 2012), reduced HIV related death (UNAIDS, 2018) and reduced new HIV infections (Bavinton et al., 2018; Cohen et al., 2016; Rodger et al., 2016). However, Other HIV/AIDS related challenges like depression still prevail. Previous studies have found that people living with HIV are two to four times more likely to suffer from depression compared to the general population (Ciesla and Roberts, 2001; Do et al., 2014; Remien et al., 2019). In Uganda, the prevalence of depression among people living with HIV/AIDS is estimated to be between 9 - 25% (Kinyanda et al., 2017; Nakimuli-Mpungu et al., 2011). Despite this, most of HIV treatment facilities in Sub Saharaan Africa including Uganda do not screen for depression among people living with HIV.