The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability of multiple body composition techniques in a multi-ethnic population.
Are you pregnant? Are you high risk? We know it is stressful to be pregnant when you are high-risk. We are trying to learn more about how different aspects of your life - including activity, diet, environment, stress level, and social support affect pregnancy outcomes. Compensation provided.
In this study, we want to learn more about how you feel about changes in Durham and how you feel about your own neighborhood.
The purpose of this study is to increase the involvement of black breast cancer patients in clinical research trials and connect these patients with resources.
The purpose of this research study is to estimate the future cardiovascular disease risk in pregnant women and their infants. We will use questionnaires, maternal and infant central pulse wave velocity (PWV) which is a measure of arterial stiffness (vascular aging) that predicts cardiovascular disease. This non-invasive instrument is totally safe in pregnancy. By measuring the time it takes for blood leaving your heart to reach your leg with the use of 2 small cuffs, it is able to determine arterial stiffness which is a key component of cardiovascular disease.
In this study, we want to understand the experiences of Black women in their journey to a diagnosis of endometrial cancer. Learning more about the diagnosis experience will help us to understand what made it easy or difficult to get their diagnosis. This information will help us to develop a tool to improve the endometrial cancer diagnosis experience.
This study is designed to better understand the thoughts and perspectives of older adults with early-stage Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and their caregivers to determine barriers to using telemedicine.
This is a research study to collect the names and contact information of those interested in future research participation opportunities for concussion and TBI studies.
By hosting focus groups with Black and Latinx parents, we want to learn about their experiences and concerns about feeding their infants and obesity risk. We also want to learn about their knowledge of and interest in learning about responsive feeding. We would also like to hear their thoughts and ideas for a study about planned obesity prevention.
We are recruiting mothers who have a child aged 2-6 years old to participate in an hour-long study about how parents respond to children's tantrum behavior when they view it in a traditional video versus virtual reality video. Our study includes both mothers who are in recovery from a substance use disorder as well as those who have never had a subtance use disorder. The study will take place at UNC-CH and take about one hour. Free parking and a $30 incentive will be provided to participants.