The UNC Engage Study wants to make it easier for residents and families to get involved in their assisted living care, by developing a toolkit to address common concerns and safety issues. The toolkit will be designed for providers and consumers to use; tailored to meet the needs of residents and families in assisted living communities.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate participation in an 8-week community-based, online program for adults that will help them make small changes to their diet, physical activity, and other behaviors to help promote their health or manage their weight. We are interested in who will participate, how much participants will use the program, how many participants are interested in preventing weight gain or losing weight, and how the program will affect eating, physical activity, and stress. This program is based on previous research on approaches the researchers have studied to help people make small changes to their behavior and is being offered in response to an identified need to offer health promotion resources during the COVID-19 pandemic

The purpose of the study is to collect blood from asymptomatic individuals to screen for antibodies for SARS-CoV2 , which is the virus that causes the COVID-19 illness. We would like to see how many people may have been exposed to the virus but who do not have symptoms of the illness. If there are enough tests available, we may ask you to allow us to also do a nasal or oral swab to test for COVID-19. This study is being done at the following clinics: UNC Family Medicine Center (Chapel Hill), UNC Family Medicine (Wakefield), UNC Women's Health at Eden, UNC Family Medicine Southpoint, UNC Internal Medicine Goldsboro, UNC Family Medicine Airport Road (Kinston), North Chatham Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, UNC Specialty Care Sanford, UNC Family Medicine- Mebane, and UNC Family Medicine- Clayton. Ask your provider about participating or contact Martha Almond (information below)

While platforms market gig work as an opportunity for entrepreneurship and as a fall-back option during periods of unemployment, the current coronavirus pandemic -- and the importance of social distancing -- suggests that gig employment might not be a solution during times of national crisis. This mixed methods research project will utilize in-depth interviews and demographic surveys (conducted remotely) with up to 100 gig workers in NYC affiliated to examine how workers are experiencing the virus and how it is impacting their lives and livelihoods.

The goal of the study is to understand how the increased availability of telehealth related to the COVID-19 pandemic affected staffing for behavioral health services in critical access hospitals.

The purpose of this study is to conduct in-depth interviews with parents of pediatric patients about whether and how COVID-19 has impacted their child's care, access to resources, and search for a diagnosis.

The purpose of this research study is to understand if convalescent plasma is a potential therapy and to understand the immune response to COVID-19 infection. Understanding the immune system's response after infection will help to inform vaccine design and the potential role of antibodies as therapeutics in the setting of COVID-19 infection and disease.

The purpose of this study is to determine if interpersonal relationships of LGBTQ+ identifying individuals changed throughout the course of the pandemic.

The purpose of this study is to explore how moral distress impacted CCNs who actively engaged in practice during the pandemic and today. A quantitative survey design will be used to gather CCNs perceptions of moral distress using the Moral Distress Scale-Revised (MDS-R., Epstein et al, 2021); additional open-ended questions at the end of the survey will be used to gauge nurses' coping strategies and supports available to deal with moral distress. The open-ended questions will be derived from the literature, integrate the PIs observations, and used to complement findings from the MDS-R. The focus of this study will be solely on critical care nurses that worked through the COVID-19 pandemic due to the high-stress nature of that unit

We are evaluating whether a virtual coaching COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy intervention outperforms a basic COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy training. This will help us decide which method of training is most effective in a rural community pharmacy setting.