The purpose of this research study is to examine the number, distribution and types of white blood cells in the blood and gastrointestinal (GI) tract (large and small intestines) containing HIV. Nancie Archin, PhD, is the lead research scientist in the UNC HIV Cure Center for this study.
Cancer information is widely shared on social media, however not all information is true. We aim to explore how social media designs, including in platform prompts and messages, can encourage individuals in cancer care networks to think about the quality and accuracy of cancer information shared online. This innovative work will establish the feasibility, infrastructure, and protocols to test social media designs (prompts, messages) among adults in cancer care networks.
To discover how different forms of radiation affect the sleep, mood, and social function of adults with brain cancer. Doctors have suspected that these patients may be getting worse sleep, but no one has studied it. Since sleep is important in recovery and overall body function, understanding how radiation changes it will lead to a greater clinical understanding of the treatment.
This study is testing whether a small grant with or without peer mentoring will improve mental health for transgender people experience financial hardship.
The purpose of this study is to understand how healthcare providers in primary care manage older adults with type 1 diabetes. We would like to understand whether they are managing them alone or with endocrinology as well as how comfortable providers are with diabetes management technology.
The purpose of this study is to understand how individuals develop personalized approaches to leadership. In order to understand how this occurs, we will be interviewing leaders multiple times over the course of a year to understand their unique approach to leadership and how it evolved.
Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the interaction between healthcare delivery in Gujarat, India and physicians' implicit associations with respect to ethnicity and gender. Objectives : 1) Assess physicians' implicit cultural and gender-based associations by administering Implicit Association Tests (IATs). 2) Analyze interaction between IAT results and participant demographic information. 3) Analyze interaction between IAT results and explicit associations. 4) Analyze interaction between IAT results and clinical management of hypertension as indicated by responses to vignettes.
The purpose of this study is to identify whether certain visual factors of icon design can lead to users being able to find target icons more quickly on mobile devices
A community-based team, composed of Donna Carrington, Executive Director of Community Empowerment Fund (CEF), Danielle Spurlock, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning, and Allison De Marco, MSW PhD, Research Scientist, UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and School of Social Work, are leading a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-funded research project in Orange and Durham Counties, entitled, "Overcoming Structural Racism in Housing Stability and Wealth-building: Laying the Foundation for Community Health and Well Being." We'll be examining how CEF's services in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham are related to housing stability, the short-term and longer-term effects of housing stability on financial, social, physical, and psychological well-being, and the disparate impacts of climate change. As part of this work, we are interested in understanding the local policy and practice context, via a series of community-based listening sessions.
The purpose of this study is to develop a natural language processing (NLP)-based software tool to identify information related to rigor and transparency from RCT reports. These tools will assist stakeholders of clinical research in maintaining high reporting standards, synthesizing information on methodological quality, and fostering open science practices.