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Geriatric MyChart Survey

To survey a population of older adults receiving primary care at the UNC Geriatrics Specialty Clinic and characterize: their perceived reasons for using MyChart, frequency with which they communicate using MyChart, their perceptions of how MyChart should be used in clinical care, and their perceptions of the benefits and limitations of using MyChart in clinical care.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Aging
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Understanding employee motivation and behavior

The purpose of this study to understand employee reactions to observations about their work environment, specifically emotions experienced from their coworker's behavior.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Carteret County Flood Tolerance

This study focuses on how communities near the coast deal with frequent but shallow flooding. We focus on small towns in Carteret County, NC, where families have lived for a long time. We want to talk to residents here to understand how they see their quality of life changing as flooding increases. We also want to see if their tolerance for this type of flooding changes depending on how bad it is and which areas are affected. By talking to residents and modeling flooding, we hope to characterize how livable this place may be in the future considering these floods.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Aging
  • Environment
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • Wellness and Lifestyle
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Helium impact on scuba diving

Scuba divers are at risk of developing decompression sickness (DCS). This study aims to understand how different gases breathed during the dive (notably helium vs nitrogen) can influence that risk by quantifying bubbles that form during and after diving and other inflammatory markers, both shown to relate to DCS risk.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Connections among Age, Occupation, and Environment in an Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness

This study will illustrate how place is created for older adults through connections among aging, environment, and occupation. I will use a narrative approach to examine how community-based organizational leaders relate stories of anticipated meaningful relationships among aging, environment, and occupation in a community-based Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness. Additionally, I will explore how older adults narrate their meaningful occupational engagement among these environmental contexts. Overall, I will assess the connections between community-based organizational leaders' related stories of how aging, environment, and occupation would be situated and older adults' narrated accounts of their occupational engagement among the Center's environmental contexts.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Aging
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • Wellness and Lifestyle
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Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Understanding Target Variable Selection in Machine Learning Model Development

Predictive modeling has recently attracted a lot of attention from organizations trying to leverage AI and big data to improve their work processes such as decision-making. However, real-world problems are rarely well-formulated machine learning problems. Practitioners have to supply a well-defined predictive target to operationalize a predictive model. In such cases, they often resort to using observed variables to approximate the actual construct of interest. For example, people have used high sales numbers as a proxy for a good employee. Proxy label selection is a recurring challenge when predictive ML is applied to real-world problems. The purpose of this interview study is to understand how ML practitioners select proxy labels, evaluate proxy labels, and iterate through the different tasks involved.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

First Impressions

This study is designed to investigate factors related to first impressions of other people.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 22 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Center for AIDS Research Sample Collection Study

The overall goal of the UNC CFAR is to support research of HIV infection carried out by UNC CFAR affiliated investigators and collaborators outside UNC. In order to achieve the goal of providing cutting edge research and testing services, the UNC CFAR will use samples of blood, hair, urine, oral and genital secretions from HIV seropositive and seronegative donors to evaluate, validate and quality control current and future assays.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • HIV/AIDS
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Acute Respiratory Illness in Uganda

The goal of this study is to develop new ways of figuring out which children with acute respiratory illnesses (like cough, cold, or flu) would benefit from antibiotic treatment. To do this, we will evaluate different combinations of vital signs, symptoms, results from tests for infections that cause respiratory illness, and measurement of the body's immune response to see which ones best predict the presence of infection that requires antibiotic treatment.

Age & Gender
  • 1 years ~ 10 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • Immune System/Infections
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Enhancing the role of pharmacies in reducing opioid misuse and abuse in racial and ethnic minority and rural communities

The goal of this project is to understand how community pharmacies work collaboratively with patients to reduce the harm that opioid misuse can cause. Investigators are also seeking to understand what challenges community pharmacies face when trying to decrease harm from opioids by supporting safe use of opioid medications and access to medications for opioid use disorder treatment and opioid overdose reversal. Information gathering efforts are being focused on community pharmacies that serve racial and ethnic minority communities in rural areas. Triangle CERSI scientists are working collaboratively with the FDA to survey and interview pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, patients, and other community members to collect and analyze data needed to better understand community pharmacy challenges in these areas. Ultimately, investigators seek to explore effective ways to reduce the harm from opioid misuse among underserved communities.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • Substance Use (tobacco, alcohol, opioids, etc)
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
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