Colontown is an online community of more than 100 private Facebook groups for colorectal cancer patients, survivors, and care partners. The purpose of this study is document and analyze Colontown members' engagement practices and perceptions of patient empowerment, to determine how online communities can support patients and caregivers in CRC management.
Belatacept is a drug that helps kidney transplant recipients by preventing the body from rejecting the new organ. We want to compare how well belatacept works compared to the commonly used drug tacrolimus. To do this, we plan to study people who got kidney transplants in the United States from 2011 to 2020. By using two large databases, the United States Renal Data System, and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, we aim to understand how belatacept is used in real life. We are also interested in comparing how effective and safe is belatacept compared with tacrolimus after one year of administration. We will look at outcomes like how long the transplanted kidney will work, how long will the kidney transplant recipients live, how well your kidneys will work, the risk of organ rejection, and certain side effects to happen after transplant like blood cancer.
This project explores the stories and narratives about how gardening and communing in a shared space (ex: community gardens) can enrich communal care, resistance, and joy.
Using carefully constructed case vignettes and a survey of oncology providers across a spectrum of settings, we sought to characterize early trends in internalization of the girentuximab PET-CT into care.
The goal of this project is to establish normative data for the Vocal Development Landmarks Assessment (VDLA), an online tool designed to obtain information about early vocalizations and babbling for children <21 months of age.
With this study we want to collect data from new and established patients with inflammation of the cornea (keratitis). We want to create a registry that can give us information about this disease and define what factors are related to the process, diagnosis, and treatment of keratitis, to help improve the health of future patients with this condition.
The purpose of this study is to gather information about how disruptions in school bus services affect children and families.
This study is being conducted to create a better understanding of how military journalists cover issues such as military mental health and whether this coverage focuses on institutional or individual factors, how their audiences perceive their news stories, and what possible methods or techniques may be needed to make their coverage more effective.
To understand the impact on schools of the new law.
The purpose of this study is to qualitatively examine how social movements and actors within social movement organizations interact with the press and media as they work to achieve their goals. This study seeks to further examine the relationship between left-leaning social movements in the U.S. South as alternative media outlets and newspapers decline and tension between social movements and actors like the state and elected officials intensify.