Current dialysis vascular access patient education materials can be overwhelming, not written in plain language, and not have enough realistic information about the steps involved in getting a dialysis vascular access before starting hemodialysis. This study is being done to create and test a dialysis vascular access educational video for patients. Participants would take part in a one-time interview about their thoughts on dialysis vascular access education and their ideas for a vascular access video.

Study and compare the priming and anchoring effects in both multi-view and single-view scatterplots.

This study will be conducted in order to explore how children acquire and use emotion words and concepts by looking at syntactic structure and visual influence.

The United States is facing a worsening physician shortage that particularly affects people living in rural or underserved communities. One strategy used to address this problem is clinical exposure programs for students in high school, college, and/or medical school. Research currently suggests that these programs could influence participants' interest in medicine, specialty choice, and practice location preferences. Mentoring in Medicine is a summer clinical exposure program that targets college students in the Johnstown area of Pennsylvania. This region of the state is socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved. No formal follow-up has been conducted on the participants since the program began in 2004. We plan on surveying these past participants to examine their academic and career interests and outcomes. We will also use physician databases to determine career outcomes. This data will help contribute to the body of evidence regarding educational interventions to improve medical shortages in the United States.

The purpose of this project is to complete the complete CVI Range assessment (Roman-Lantzy, 2018) and the Communication Matrix (Rowland, 2011) on a group of children with Angelman syndrome. The results will increase understandings of Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) and its relationship to symbolic communication in this population.

This study aims to design and improve tools that can be used to select strategies for improving colorectal cancer screening in different settings and populations. Interviews, surveys, and focus groups will be conducted with individuals who make decisions related to colorectal cancer screening interventions about their understanding, preferences, and suggestions related to these tools and intervention strategies.

The purpose is to provide students enrolled in certain introduction-level Poli Sci courses with firsthand research experiences, and to provide political science researchers with a method for research participant recruitment.

The purpose of this research study is to collect and store blood samples from patients with heart disease at UNC-Chapel Hill for use in future research. Investigators will use these blood samples to identify new ways to measure substances made by our bodies that may help predict risk for developing heart disease or response to certain medications.

To learn about more effective ways the health care system in Zambia can care for people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) who are also living with HIV.

To evaluate the current state of health care disparities curriculums within general surgery programs within the US.