Surveys, Surveys, Surveys

I've been getting to know more of Mityana and is finding my way around town. I've also been getting to know the other team members better. Teaching has been a lot of fun. The students are very enthusiatic and responsive during the lessons though the lessons would have been even better without the language barrier, especially for the younger kids. I'm definitely still doing malaria and hygiene since those are problems that would be helpful to address. The alcohol effects was a topic that Shaunte would like to cover in her nutrition lessons. I was talking to Becky, and we thought that having similar lessons for parents would be helpful. If that were to happen, we would need to think of a time to schedule these lessons in.

As for the surveys, Margret introduced me to the DMO of Mityana, and the interview with him was helpful. He has also been able to write a introductory letter for me to visit other health workers. Yesterday, I was able to meet with Dr. Mugambe, a private practitioner, and the interview with him had also been helpful. The school nurse, Veronica Walumbe, is also setting up a time for us to meet health workers at the Mityana hospital, possibly next Tuesday morning.

On Friday, we gave out surveys to about 16 parents and around 15 students each from P5, P6, and P7. I've went ahead and given the pre-assessment that was IRB approved to the students and parents. The surveys had taken a much longer time to give than originally thought.

As for the pre-post Qs, I would probably need approval by the week of July 6th as that was the week that I am planning to start the malaria and hygiene lessons. I think the P6 and P7 kids wouldn't have too much trouble with the English since many of them replied in English on the surveys given on Friday. Also, judging from the progess on Friday, I'm not sure if giving the pre-assessment at the begining of class (and the post-assessment at the end of class) would eat up too much class time. Also, from the number of surveys that we were actually able to give on Friday, I'm considering just taking a sample of the class, maybe the same students who took the pre-assessment on Friday, to take the additional surveys, but setting up another time for these kids to take another survey seems to be logistically more complicated than just have the whole class take the surveys at the beginning (and end) of class.