This study is being done to answer the following question: Do two different anti-cancer drugs, paclitaxel (PTX) and pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) have similar effects on treating KS in PLWH in sub-Saharan Africa? We are doing this study because we want to find out if one of these approaches, PTX or PLD, is better than the other for KS. Both drugs may be given as part of the usual approach for your KS. The usual approach is defined as care most people get for KS.
This study investigates whether and how local economic power explains the unequal state development in Chile. On the one hand, I intend to assess how close ties between businesspeople and mayors obstruct the state's efforts to improve social services and goods for the population. On the other hand, I aim to study how these close linkages curb the extent that local politicians invest in a better capacity to collect money from taxes.
Women's Police Stations were established in Brazil in 1985 to respond to reports of violence against women. Since then, they have spread throughout Latin America, but they take different forms. I am interested in seeing what may make some Women's Police Stations more effective than others. It is important to know the conditions under which these stations do their jobs, to prevent and respond to violence against women.
More primary care healthcare providers are asking patients questions about their ability to access and pay for things they need, like transportation, food, and housing. The purpose of this research study is to better understand how healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers feel about asking and answering these types of questions.
The purpose of this study is to partner with adolescents in the community to develop and test a social media campaign that provides psychoeducation and teaches therapeutic skills to prevent mental health disorders.
1. Characterize sleep-related content in current training curricula for marijuana dispensary workers 2. Examine dispensary workers' and medical prescribers' practices around recommending cannabis products for sleep problems 3. Assess dispensary workers' and prescribers' knowledge about sleep and cannabis 4. Test the presence of THC, CBD, CBN in the products marketed for sleep
The purpose of this study is to lay the groundwork for a pragmatic trial and real-world implementation of Mouth Care Without a Battle (MCWB) for assisted living (AL) residents with dementia and their caregivers. The aims are to refine MCWB for AL, and examine research efficacy (working with a research dental hygienist) and real-world efficacy (working with community public health dental hygienists) to train personal care aides in 48 AL communities across North Carolina to provide mouth care.
We are surveying Internal Medicine Residents about their knowledge and attitudes regarding open notes for patient documentation. Understanding their knowledge level will allow us to provide education in the future
The purpose of this research is to improve early diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and through the implementation of cascade screening, or family genetic testing for FH. To identify areas for improvement, we are recruiting stakeholders to participate in qualitative interviews. We will use this information to better understand barriers and facilitators for a specific diagnostic strategy called cascade screening. This strategy involves contacting family members to discuss their risk of having familial hypercholesterolemia and arranging for screening to check for very high cholesterol and genes associated with it. Once this tool has been implemented, we will conduct 20 more qualitative interviews to further understand barriers and facilitators to adoption of the diagnostic tool.
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety of the addition of universal donor, expanded NK cells to gemcitabine/docetaxel for treatment of relapsed and refractory sarcomas.