Use of Indigenous-Based Methodologies to Enhance the Understanding of Local Context in Ugandan Communities: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Sahr Wali   ^{1, 2, 3} , PhD ;   Jeremy I Schwartz   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Justice Seidel   ⁶ , MIR ;   Jenipher Kamarembo   ⁷ , BSCN ;   Jenifer Atala   ⁸ , BSCN ;   Ann R Akiteng   ⁴ , MBChB ;   Martha Nabadda   ⁴ , BSCN ;   Cinderella N Muhangi   ⁴ , MPH ;   Angela Mashford-Pringle   ⁹ , PhD ;   Heather Ross   ^{3, 10} , MD ;   Joseph Cafazzo   ^{2, 11} , PhD, PEng ;   Isaac Ssinabulya   ^{4, 7} , MBChB

¹ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Centre for Digital Therapeutics, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda

⁵ Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

⁶ NOSM University, Thunder Bay, Canada

⁷ Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

⁸ Lira Regional Referral Hospital, Lira, Uganda

⁹ Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Institute of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹¹ Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada