Centre for Nursing Research, Jewish General Hospital & Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal & Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada (Dr Feeley); Walimu, Kampala, Uganda (Ms Kabajaasi and Dr Kenya-Mugisha); Department of Pediatrics, Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Jinja, Uganda (Dr Tagoola); Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Dr O’Brien); and Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada (Dr Duby).

Correspondence: Nancy Feeley, PhD, RN, FCAN, Centre for Nursing Research, Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada ([email protected]).

Jessica Duby and Nancy Feeley were supported by a grant from the Steinberg Fund for Interdisciplinary Global Health Research at McGill University in 2019.

N.F. and J.D. designed this phase of the larger study on which this report is based. N.F., O.K., and J.D. analyzed the data. O.K. was the study coordinator and oversaw the operationalization of the study procedures and implementation of the program. N.K.-M. contributed to all aspects of the implementation of the research at the study site. A.T. facilitated and supervised data collection at the study site. K.O. contributed to the design and implementation of the research and adaptation of FICare. N.F. drafted this manuscript which was reviewed and approved by all.

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Ethical approval was provided by the Institutional Review Boards of the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (HS632ES), Makerere University School of Public Health (770), and the McGill University Health Centre Research Ethics Committee (FICare/2021-6672) in advance of implementation. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants.