The purpose of this study is to research the effect of different animal images in swaying viewers' intent to take action for the benefit of the pictured animal species. We intend to show participants pictures of animals in different environments with different emotional states and nature pictures and use survey questions to determine if the pictures affect viewers' intentions to help organizations that help the animal species pictured. We are hoping that this research will help those working on behalf of animal conservation in selecting pictures for charity work.
The purpose of this research is to measure people's beliefs about bisexual men vs. bisexual women. In particular, the present research aims to uncover whether people harbor a stereotypic bias to think of bisexual men as "actually gay," but to conversely think of bisexual women as "actually straight."
Examine the consumer journey of enlisting in the U.S. Army through the eyes of recruits and recruiters with a focus on the use of paid, owned, and earned digital content marketing effects. The study aims to understand how recruits consumer and process information with regards to decision-making for the "purchase" to join the Army through in-depth interviews that follow the recruits' consumer journeys. This project should provide the Army Recruiting Command and academia with a fresh analysis of how digital content marketing is used and effects job-seeking decision making for signing a lengthy (3-6 years) contract to be an employee of an well-known organizations. Further, it provides co-orientation analysis of how recruits and recruiters both used and experienced digital content marketing efforts.
To better understand whether people in jail have ever received COVID-19 testing and vaccination and whether they would be will to receive these services in jail and after their release.
K-12 teachers are facing an extraordinarily challenging time as our schools recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. To lend support to teachers in this difficult professional environment, this study aims to discover how archives and special collections can make online materials maximally accessible and useful for K-12 teachers. Using semi-structured interviews with ten K-12 teachers and website usage data from the "On the Books" library guide, this study will gather data about how teachers find, interact with, and teach with the online resources for primary source instruction developed by Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The findings will be considered to make recommendations for some ways that special collections librarians can better serve this group of patrons with online teaching resources.
To increase communication between provider and adolescent/parent about ADHD in order to improve ADHD symptoms, school and social performance, and quality of life.
The purpose of this study is to survey college students to assess their usage and nonusage of local public libraries.
Tobacco use is not only the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in North Carolina and the United States, but it also has uniquely damaging impacts on oral health. All forms of tobacco are well known to cause oral cancer, gum disease, and other oral health issues. The purposes of this study are to: 1) measure educational outcomes of dental students and providers from implementing a pilot interprofessional tobacco cessation resource program in the dental setting and 2) explore the impact of such a program on associated patient outcomes.
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.
Our study will interview youth and their caregivers in order to assess their experiences and perceptions of mental health and accessing mental health services.