In this study, we want to see how giving birth affects stress chemicals in the body. We will focus on a stress hormone called cortisol and check its levels in people who gave birth, from 3 to 12 months after giving birth.
This study seeks to understand how different things about your life, like your upbringing, might affect how you feel about having kids in the future. By looking at how your background and experiences shape your thoughts on having children, we hope to learn more about what factors influence people's decisions about starting a family.
In this study, we want to find ways to help people who have been in the intensive care unit (ICU) and their families. We want to hear about your experiences and thoughts on a new program to help you adjust to life after leaving the ICU.
Do you have problems with your thinking or memory? Or a parent or sibling with dementia? If so, we'd like you to join this registry about the brain and Alzheimer's disease. In return for providing us with a little bit of your health history and background, we will connect you with researchers doing studies you can join, without obligation. Many studies pay a stipend and some offer a possible treatment.
Are you a Black teenager between 14 and 19 years old? Do you sometimes have thoughts about hurting yourself? If so, you might be able to join a study that aims to help reduce these thoughts for you and others. Compensation provided.
The purpose of this research study is to investigate how human interpret some predictive learned by AI systems when detecting deceptive hotel reviews and how AI explanations can shape human understanding. For instance, the AI system learns that words like "floor" and "bathroom" are highly predictive of genuine reviews and words like "husband" and "luxury" are highly predictive of deceptive reviews. While the AI system highlights these words by learning from the data, the association between these words and the outcome are not easy to comprehend for humans. Thus, our goal of this research is to investigate how participants interact with machine-generated explanations that are unintuitive, and how participants make use of our developed visualizations and tools to make sense of these unintuitive features.
Have you ever been concerned about your eating? We're inviting adults in the U.S. who have ever had anorexia nervosa, atypical anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, or avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) at any point in their life to take our survey. No official medical diagnosis is required. Common signs of different eating disorders may include: restricting the amount or type of food you eat or eating excessive amounts of food in one sitting. Some other possible signs are making yourself throw up, using diet pills or laxatives, excessively exercising, or fasting to alter your weight. Only with your help can we the causes and potential cures for these disorders. Eligible participants who complete Core Questionnaires and return their saliva sample will receive a $30 gift card.
This study aims to understand how a person's race and where they live affect the quality of breast cancer care they receive. We invite Black and/or African American breast cancer patients and survivors from specific areas of North Carolina to participate in a virtual focus group. The purpose of this focus group is to get your feedback about maps and other tools our team has created to show how breast cancer care quality varies around the state and by race. We also want to hear your experiences seeking care in your area, and your ideas about possible reasons behind the patterns in your area.
Focus groups for adolescents and caregivers who have had eating disorders or disordered eating to help us develop a new treatment that is appropriate for members of the Latinx community.
Do you work in a primary care clinic that provides weight-inclusive care? Have you been working at your clinic for at least 6 months? If so, you may be able to join a study about your clinic's policies and efforts to care for patients of all body sizes.