This study hopes to identify barriers to care for patients with interstitial lung disease by surveying patient experiences with symptoms, diagnosis, ongoing treatment of their lung disease.

The purpose of this study is to test a program to help people who have knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA). We are calling this program the "Osteoarthritis Clinic-Community CARE Model" or OA CARE. We are testing this program to see if the OA CARE program in partnership with the YMCA, helps patients with knee or hip OA manage their weight and move more.

This project will examine the effects of a comprehensive intervention that blends financial, advising, and social supports on outcomes for students at public 4-year institutions who have transferred from community colleges. The transfer, accelerate, complete, engage (TrACE) intervention will take place at several UNC System universities. Two cohorts of students will be offered access to the TrACE program-the first starting in Fall 2022 and the second starting in Fall 2023. TrACE supports last for two years. The research team will explore the effects of access to TrACE on long-run outcomes such as degree completion (2-year and 3-year rates).

This project is about the state's role in the environmental management of fishery and conservation. Environmental management of conservation provides a lens to understand how the state and policies influence its people. This project examines how Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora regulations on species of Corallium reshape the livelihoods and identity of Taiwan and its coral fishery sectors. This research will analyze legal documents and news report and interview fishermen, coral jewelry artisans, and fisheries officials.

The purpose of this study is to gather information to help improve the way hearing aids are fit for young children.

This study will illustrate how place is created for older adults through connections among aging, environment, and occupation. I will use a narrative approach to examine how community-based organizational leaders relate stories of anticipated meaningful relationships among aging, environment, and occupation in a community-based Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness. Additionally, I will explore how older adults narrate their meaningful occupational engagement among these environmental contexts. Overall, I will assess the connections between community-based organizational leaders' related stories of how aging, environment, and occupation would be situated and older adults' narrated accounts of their occupational engagement among the Center's environmental contexts.

The purpose of this study is to understand how the graduate academic environment at UNC-Chapel Hill impacts mental health from the perspective of Black men in graduate degree programs. Participants in this study will be asked to participate in a semi-structured interview that will be virtual. This interview will last about 1 hour. Participants will be guided through prompts to bring out their views and experiences around graduate school and mental health. The insights gained from this study may inform a larger project on graduate student well-being and help develop future initiatives to support the health of Black men pursuing graduate degrees.

Through semi-structured interviews with Arab entrepreneurs and business owners, this project considers questions of immigration, identity, and local processes of action and decision making within the context of the food industry and entrepreneurship. The food industry was chosen as food is a significant symbol for identity, faith, and culture. There is also significant diversity of Arab-owned businesses in the food industry.

The purpose of this study is to see how different children develop spoken language following cochlear implantation. We are interested in looking at brain scans obtained before cochlear implant surgery. Our goal is to predict which children will need more therapy and to understand what type and amount of therapy would be most effective for each child based on their brain structure.

To provide a teaching tool to dermatology residents and assess its efficacy