Many autistic young adults also identify as gender-diverse, meaning they may not feel like the gender they were assigned at birth. These individuals face unique challenges, including feeling pressured to hide parts of who they are, struggling to find support, and dealing with high levels of stress. Right now, there aren't many programs designed specifically to help autistic gender-diverse young adults feel safe, understood, and supported. This study is exploring a support group called the SHIFT Guide (Supporting Holistic Identity and Future Thriving). This guide is designed to help autistic gender-diverse young adults connect with others, explore their identities, and develop coping strategies in a safe and affirming space. The goal is to see if the SHIFT Guide is helpful, easy to use, and meets the needs of participants. By learning from this study, we hope to improve support for autistic gender-diverse young adults and create more spaces where they can

This study explores how religious beliefs influence decisions about organ donation in Black Christian communities. Many Black Americans need organ transplants, but donation rates in these communities are lower than in others. Religious beliefs may play a role in these decisions, but past research has not fully explored how people learn about their religion's views on organ donation or how these beliefs affect their choices. By interviewing Black Christians, this study aims to better understand their thoughts, experiences, and concerns about organ donation. The goal is to help create better ways to share information about organ donation that respect religious beliefs and encourage informed decision-making.

I aim to understand how nonpolitical traits and choices convey information about political positions of citizens and candidates and generate consequences for the way in which people interact with them.

The purpose of this study is to survey the physician membership of NAEMSP to try and establish a national market rate for EMS medical director roles. Currently, there is no established market rate for EMS medical direction.

The purpose is to promote retention of Family Child Care Homes by increasing compensation comparable to the actual cost of care.

The overall purpose of this study is to explore teachers' racial ideology and specifically, the ways white teachers with varying teacher ideologies represent whiteness in K-12 education. The study consists of two phases. The purpose of the first phase is to examine all teachers' attitudes towards race, both white and Teachers of Color. The purpose of the second phase is to explore white teachers' racial ideology and the ways they represent whiteness in K-12 education with varying teacher ideologies. The results will inform higher education faculty and programs for the purpose of integrating curriculum that will aid teachers to acknowledge their racial ideology, how it influences teaching practices in the classroom, and develop strategies to interrupt the its impact it has on students. This is necessary to assist will aid teachers to serve students effectively.

The goal of this study is to examine the determinants of individuals' policy preferences as well as their attitudes toward international political institutions. This survey includes two embedded survey experiments, each examining a different aspect of individuals' preferences. The first experiment examines how information about depopulation risk affects individuals' immigration policy preferences by randomly varying whether subjects receive information about depopulation. The second experiment examines how the expansion of an international organization affects individuals' attitudes toward international organizations, as well as their attitudes toward member and non-member states. Overall, this study aims to understand the determinants of individuals' attitudes toward policies related to various aspects of globalization.

The purpose of this study is to understand how people interact with AI tools.

To explore community pharmacist perspectives on the feasibility of and interest in pharmacy-centered methadone access at rural community pharmacies. The model for which we will elicit pharmacists' perspectives parallels several similar successful programs that exist outside of the US and several successful small-scale pilots that have been conducted in urban areas of the US, including NC.

The purose of this study is to determine if in utero biologic and immunomodulator exposure leads to higher rates of malignancy, infection, immune mediated disease, neurologic disorders and other health issues out to 18 years from exposure