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    Male spouse involvement in antenatal care: a study of clients at Luwero Hospital, Luwero District
    (Makerere University, 2025) NAMARA RECHEAL
    This study examined male spouse involvement in antenatal care (ANC) at Luwero hospital Luwero District. The objectives of the study were; (i) To assess the nature and level of involvement of male spouses in ANC services. (ii) To describe perceptions of male spouses towards ANC services and in particular their involvement in these services. (iii) To assess the socio-cultural factors responsible for male spouse involvement or lack of it in ANC services. (iv)To explore the strategies employed by health service providers to influence male involvement in antenatal care services. This was a descriptive study, which employed a qualitative approach. The study comprised of 10 individual pregnant women and 2 FGDs with pregnant women. It also included 8 individual male spouses and 2 FGDs with male spouses. Finally, the sample included 7 key informants. In-depth interviews (IDIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were the main data collection methods used in the study all guided by the checklist tools. Exit poll selection and purposive sampling were used to select participants who shared particular characteristics with the potential of providing rich, relevant, and diverse data. Data was thematically analyzed. The study found out that most men consider accompanying their wives to ANC as a good practice while fewer men felt they can be involved in other ways as being providers of financial support inform of money for registration, fees for delivery and childbirth. The idea of male involvement in ANC and its benefits was welcomed by male spouses but limited by a number of factors like health facility set up whereby the ANC lacks privacy, limited space to accommodate spouses and cultural-specific maternity factors . The study also confirmed that peer influence where by men escorting their wives for ANC are labeled as “not man enough” and the attitude of nurses and midwives at the antenatal clinic were unappealing. The study therefore recommends improvement in human resource especially recruitment of male midwives as they were most preferred, support prorgammes that focus to eliminate negative cultural norms and practices relating to reproductive health, maternal health, pregnancy and family planning. In addition, interventions to improve male involvement in ANC should address individual and systematic barriers to men’s involvement.
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    Assessing the implementation of the suspects’ right to personal liberty by Uganda Police Force: a case study of Sipi Region (2005-2019)
    (Makerere University, 2025) Mbale, Suburo Rastal
    The study was done to assess the implementation of the suspects’ right to personal liberty by the Uganda Police Force focusing on Sipi Region as a case study. It explores the right to personal liberty, assesses the extent to which the suspects’ right to personal liberty is respected by Uganda Police Force, finds out challenges the Uganda Police Force faces in implementation of the suspects’ right to personal liberty and elaborates on the impact of suspects’ continued detention beyond 48hours in police custody. The research design used is a case study and a qualitative approach employed with research methods like document analysis, participant observation and key informant interviews. The major findings of this investigation show that suspects are still detained beyond forty eight hours by the Uganda Police Force because of challenges like: magistrates working few days in a week while some state attorneys operate over a wide area; offences committed across borders or within Uganda that require movement across the country; capital offences like terrorism and murder that require extensive investigations in laboratories which are not in Uganda; slowness in investigations caused by lack of proper training, inadequate facilitation, premature arrests, legal lacunae, political interference and corruption. Detaining suspects beyond forty-eight hours contravenes other constitutional rights like the right to speedy and fair trial. It also creates an environment where torture, overcrowding and other ill treatment are likely to occur to suspects. And lastly, it increases government expenditure in form of suspects’ basic necessities like food, water and medication among others. To observe the suspects’ constitutional forty-eight hours, more judicial officials should be recruited, employ modern speedy investigation methods before arrests, enhance detectives capacity building, detaining suspects on remand and revisiting our laws to address legal lacunae. The findings of this study will hopefully be significant to policy makers, Uganda Police, researchers and the general community.
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    Transformational leadership, work climate and job performance among nurses in selected National Referral Hospitals of Kampala District
    (Makerere University, 2025) Nabukalu, Ritah Faith
    The purpose of this research study was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership, work climate and job performance among nurses in selected national referral hospitals of Kampala district. The study intended to achieve four objectives namely; to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and work climate, to examine the relationship between work climate and job performance, to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and job performance and to examine the mediating role of work climate on the relationship between transformational leadership and job performance. The study was quantitative specifically correlational design and simple random sampling was used to select participants. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from nurses working in Kiruddu and Kawempe national referral hospitals. Krejcie and Morgan (1970) estimation table was utilized to determine the sample size which was 186 participants and data was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 23. To test the hypotheses, Pearson Product Moment Correlational coefficient was used to test the relationship between Transformational Leadership, Work Climate and Job Performance whereas Process Macro by Hayes, (2022) was used to test the mediation effect. The results showed that there was a positive significant relationship between transformational leadership, work climate and job performance (r = .57, p<.01), (r = .33, p<.01), (r = .34, p<.01). The mediation findings also revealed that the mediator (work climate) was stronger and significant showing full mediation (B= .07 SE= .05, t= 1.28, p > .01). Based on the findings, it was concluded that hospitals with proper leadership and good work climate are likely to benefit from higher performance and eventually generate quality health care service delivery. Thereby, it is recommended that a positive work climate should be adopted and when it is done, the health management system will be better for job performance.
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    The representation of women in Ugandan war narratives
    (Makerere University, 2019-11) Akite, Beatrice
    This study is an examination of Mary Karooro Okurut, Goretti Kyomuhendo and Julius Ocwinyo’s novels: The Invisible Weevil (1998) Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War (2007) and Fate of the Banished (1997) respectively. The study analyses the construction of female characters based on their interactions with other characters in the novels; shaped by war. It surveys the roles played by female characters as agents of peace in the novels during war atrocities. The study further examines the impact of war on the female characters in war which effect spills over in homes and weighs heavily on women. The study proposes that literature has been used by the writers to portray the active participation of women in war, which historically has been relegated as the business of men. Although war tries to suppress the voices of women and their active participation in the war, the women in the texts come out as active agents in protecting their families and the entire society from getting wounded by war effects. While Kyomuhendo and Okurut craft women who are active participants in the war, those who come face to face with war, in The Invisible Weevil (1998) or those to whom war come to like in Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War (2007), Ocwinyo in Fate of the Banished (1997) portrays women victims in the novel. Ocwinyo crafts female characters who are the backbone of families left behind by warriors like Apire. The study cuts across the images of women in such war currents, their role in the war, and the impact of war on innocent characters. A conclusion is drawn that both male and female authors of war narratives employ female characters in the novels in order to bring out their roles in aiding their families and community survive during conflict.
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    Parentification, peer relations, school attendance and psychological well-being among ordinary level students in Kampala
    ( 2019-11-12) Nantumbwe, Zenah
    This study investigated the relationships between Parentification and peer relations, school attendance and psychological wellbeing of ordinary level students in Kampala. There were 173 participants from three Universal Secondary Education (USE) day schools in Kampala. The participants were given questionnaires, The Parentification Youth version, Index of peer relations, filled in number of days missed for school attendance rate and the psychological wellbeing measurement scale. Findings indicated that parentification was significantly related and had an effect on peer relations and psychological wellbeing but was not significantly related or predictive of school attendance, and peer relations mediated the relationship between parentification and psychological wellbeing. The results are discussed in terms of implications of parentification on children’s development emphasizing the importance of interventions as well as implications for clinical practice in treating parentification effects during childhood.