The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the pneumococcal vaccine (20vPnC) against community-acquired pneumonia.
We are collecting data on new aspects of the residency application process in internal medicine so that we (and other medical schools) can help better prepare and advise students in the future.
Research with blood and cells (generally called specimens) can help researchers understand how the human body works. Research can also answer other questions by using specimens. Researchers may develop new tests to find diseases, or new ways to treat diseases. In the future, research may help to develop new products, such as drugs. You are being asked for permission to use your biospecimens and medical records for this study. Using your biospecimens, researchers may be able to detect CAR-T cells in your body after you receive the CAR-T treatment. The purpose of this study is to validate the detection method of CAR-T cells in the blood to advance CAR-T therapy development.
Trauma informed practices include a wide range of potential policies and actions that schools can implement with the goal of supporting students better. I am interested in further understanding what these practices include and what effect they have on the students and staff at the school. In order to explore these questions, this study focuses on one school's experience with implementing trauma informed educational policies. Interviews with school staff will aid in understanding what these policies look like in practice, as well as their benefits and limitations.
The purpose of this study would be to establish an LCC training simulation for civilian first responders (i.e., paramedics, search and rescue, etc.).
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.
The purpose of this study is to (1) Document how clinicians and clinical investigators define and understand the risks and benefits of current food allergy therapeutic options and (2) Develop a framework for how the risks and benefits of clinical and research options should be communicated to caregivers of children with food allergies as well as to adolescents with food allergies.
We are adapting a universal mindfulness-based social-emotional learning program for delivery by middle school counselors to students with high levels of stress.
I will be interviewing people who work at uncommon, special types of archives, wanting to understand how they define and interact with "context," as a term and concept, on a daily basis. Their unique collections interest different types of users and visitors, and so the archivists may need to approach those conversations and descriptions differently too. I am interested to see how broad or specific they approach "context."
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.