We are conducting this study to better understand the relationship between access to care, financial stress and health related quality of life among cancer patients in NC who live in rural areas. We will be interviewing 30 rural cancer patients to learn about their cancer experience and we will be reviewing previously completed surveys about their distress and coping behaviors.

We are wanting to investigate the impact that collaborative online international learning (COIL) involving nursing students from UNC and the University of Sao Paulo Brazil. Specifically, we want to know the impact of COIL on student knowledge, understanding and skill related to family experiences with pediatric chronic health conditions in both countries and other key nursing concepts.

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the following: 1. Are registered pharmacists in North Carolina aware of their authority as immunizing pharmacists to dispense, deliver or administer self-administered oral or transdermal contraceptives to a patient; 2. Of pharmacists that have registered for and completed the NC hormonal contraceptive training, how many have implemented this service for patients; and 3. Complete semi-structured interviews of pharmacists that have or have not implemented the service to understand their motivations and perceptions of and ability to expand access to hormonal contraception and/or address barriers to implementation.

This project will investigate how different types of search engines (e.g. Google) and generative AI systems (e.g. chatGPT) may help users when conducting information-seeking tasks. Our results will inform the design of search tools and increase our understanding of how generative AI systems can be integrated with search tools to assist users.

A case study of ten biomedical engineering programs in which two universities collaborate on at least a Ph.D. degree. The intent is to identify circumstances that lead to successful inter-university collaboration as measured by research output, including publications and patents, along with patent citations.

To initiate and evaluate a multilevel navigation intervention to promote lung cancer screening among Black/African Americans and to develop a population-based biorepository for future research in understanding biological risk factors for poor lung cancer outcomes among Black/African Americans

To study intellectual humility and its development across the lifespan.

We plan to better understand the barriers and facilitators perceived by high school coaches, athletic directors, and principals that are weighed when deciding whether to implement an ACL injury prevention program. Gaining this knowledge is an important first step in the development of programming to increase coach implementation of ACL injury prevention programs at the high school level.

This study seeks to promote clinical trial engagement in African Americans with pancreatic cancer. The first group of people will be interviewed by phone to discuss clinical trials. This information will be used to create a new mobile health app/website. In the second group, half of the participants will receive the new app and half will not. They will both be asked to complete questionnaires after their upcoming doctor visits.

The purpose of this research study is to better understand how to adapt a multi-level leadership coaching implementation strategy called Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI). This will help us understand how to better integrate mental health treatments into medical care. We will interview those involved in health care and district health decisions to understand the context of mental health care in Malawi and how we can adapt LOCI to best serve Malawian health leaders.