This study will test how well a digital version of Targeted Reading Instruction (TRI) works to improve the reading ability of students in Kindergarten through third grade. Creating a TRI App will allow us to easily increase the use of TRI with students across the country.
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between certain thought patterns and personal beliefs.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate medical student's exposure to Otolaryngology and surgical procedures before and after participating in an Otolaryngology simulation lab.
This study is interview-focused and intends to understand what influences families and how kinship is created through different cultures.
The primary aim is to test whether abatacept, as compared to placebo, is associated with a reduction in major adverse cardiac events (MACE) among participants hospitalized with myocarditis secondary to an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI).
We are conducting a study to understand how diverse pregnant people make decisions about prenatal diagnosis when fetal anomalies are present. We will be conducting semi-structured interviews of individuals that have been in the above clinical situation to better understand how personal, community, and systems-level factors impact their decision making. We will also be studying the longitudinal impact of receiving genetic information during pregnancy, particularly among those that have undergone exome or genome sequencing for prenatal diagnosis.
This qualitative study seeks to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital projects conducted by special collections libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Specifically, this research will utilize case studies to analyze the shift to digital resources following the closure of universities in the spring of 2020, and compare this data to the current operations of special collections libraries at both a public and private university.
I will be interviewing parents who use an online patient portal to speak with their children's pediatrician. I will be asking questions about how these communications go and how they feel about these interactions. I am conducting this study to learn more about patients' opinions about how doctors communicate, and these opinions will help me make recommendations to help doctors communicate more effectively.
We are studying the triage decision making process of healthcare providers. Our goal is to understand what factors influence the triage decision making process. With the growing burden of emergency department overcrowding and strained hospital capacity, the need to keep patients out of the emergency department is great, when safely able to do so. A better understanding of how and why patients are triaged can help direct work to safely care for patients in the outpatient setting.
To assess the research knowledge and awareness of employees at an academic medical institution.