The purpose of this study is to try and understand what speech and language pathologists (SLPs), or speech therapists, do in conversations with children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to communicate.
PharmAlliance is a global partnership between the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and UCL School of Pharmacy. Numerous achievements such as publications, grants, student exchanges, and teaching innovations have resulted from this international alliance. Existing research, however, does not look into specific characteristics of successful international collaborations. In this observational study, collaborators in PharmAlliance will be surveyed and interviewed in order to determine characteristics of successful international teams in pharmacy and more broadly.
To evaluate the demographic, psychosocial, parenting and family characteristics associated with grief and depression severity in bereaved parents with dependent children.
We are gathering information and research to understand the experience and perception undergraduate students have to accessing information related to health services and resources online. We will be interviewing and surveying students, faculty, and administration of higher education institutions to determine what the assets and needs are in terms of accessible, fast care for students.
This study is designed to assess the effect of early and rapid treprostinil therapy for mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) reduction to improve right ventricular (RV) function and reverse RV remodeling in patients with PAH.
The purpose of this project is to understand, from the perspective of formerly incarcerated individuals, the barriers and facilitators that people released from prison experience in establishing and engaging with health care, and how those barriers and facilitators may be impacted by participation in the FIT and FIT Connect transitional health care programs.
The goal of this study is to gather information from different stakeholders (people living with HIV and those directing clinical trials) about how to provide support for those recruited to HIV clinical trials. This information will be used to develop a "decision aid" to be used before informed consent, to help people make a decision most consistent with their values.
All existing studies estimate the health effects of disability insurance based on reduced form models. This paper fills the gap in the literature by developing a model that allows the estimation of the Social Security Disability Insurance effects on health in a structural way. The structural model enables me to analyze counterfactual scenarios. In particular, I concentrate on the modification of the SSDI program that permits partial benefits for the partially disabled.
The purpose of this study is to understand how the health literacy of a parent or primary caregiver might affect their child's outcomes following a traumatic injury.
This is a study to assess patient, provider, and pharmacist perceptions of delivering FIT kits for colorectal cancer screening in pharmacy settings.