Project Grant R21TW012563

Award Date 4/1/24
Completion Date 1/31/26
Dollars Obligated $533K
Federal Grant Program
93.989
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
California, USA

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) aims to develop and evaluate the feasibility of a culturally tailored implementation strategy called "WHO Lay Health Worker Dementia Care, with Internal Facilitation (WLDC+IF)" in rural Uganda. The $533,307 grant, awarded to Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Uganda, will fund a pilot feasibility study to co-design the WLDC+IF implementation strategy guide and assess its feasibility, acceptability, adoption, fidelity, and appropriateness for delivering evidence-based dementia care by indigenous village-based lay health workers. The project seeks to address the lack of culturally appropriate implementation strategies to promote dementia interventions in resource-limited settings like Uganda, where awareness and support services for dementia are limited. The study is informed by the Integrated Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (i-PARIHS) framework and will leverage MUST's expertise in conducting implementation science research to improve health outcomes in the region.

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