To evaluate medical students' levels of burnout and empathy using validated survey tools at the beginning and end of their third year surgery clerkship. Burnout within the medical community is a known problem and there is data demonstrating it begins in training. We want to evaluate if participation within the surgery clerkship contributes to burnout and measure how empathy relates to these symptoms.
The purpose of this study is to determine if UNC's "Our Place In Space!" laboratory curriculum, in which students use fully automated (i.e., robotic) telescopes to collect astronomical images and data, increases students' (1) attitudes, (2) self-efficacy, (3) career intentions, and (4) content knowledge, regarding STEM and astronomy.
The TIMELY impact evaluation is a tracking study to evaluate the extent to which patients with lupus from North Carolina who are under the care of TIMELY-trained providers (rheumatologists, primary care providers, nephrologists, dermatologists) or have connected with local Community Health Workers (CHWs) have increased intentions and willingness to participate in lupus clinical trials and referrals, enrollment, and retention in lupus clinical trials.
This study focuses on human's deviation from information saturation with their personal satisfying strategy, aka, individual information satiety. This helps us to understand how and why humans decide what is enough for particular tasks, and inform us with better design guidelines for information systems.
This study will help us learn more about how strongly our Triple P professional networks, both individual and organizational, in North Carolina and South Carolina are connected. We'll use this information to help create or sustain network connections to promote effective implementation of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program.
To collect data (mid and long-term) for certain FDA approved endovascular devices.
To understand how people respond to ambiguity in interpersonal situations. We would like to understand how people make decisions to trust others in uncertain situations, especially with respect to interpersonal relationships and dynamics. The focus of this study is on workplace behavior and behavior in institutional contexts.
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of streamlining Yttrium-90 radioembolization workflow for patients with small Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) (<5cm) that have no aggressive features on baseline imaging.
This study will test the effect and effectiveness of labels on political ads that disclose the use of generative AI. Governments and some internet platforms have begun requiring that political advertisers include these disclaimers, however we lack experimental study of the effect and effectiveness of these disclaimers.
This study will examine how, if at all, schools are using the school improvement process to identify and address inequities.