We will identify the relationship between pre-covid (March 2020) and current autoimmune disease testing volumes, positivity rates, and staff shortages. The statistical significance of the correlation coefficients (r value) will be assessed. T test mean correlation with be analyzed with the mean difference per test before and post covid-19. How laboratory management goals/priorities have changed will be summarized and analyzed for similarities, differences, and trends.
We are exploring the unique stressors that Black or African American women experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic since "opening back up" -- returning to work, school, and in-person activities.
The primary objective is to establish a comprehensive registry of hospitalized patients with respiratory failure. The registry will be a platform for forthcoming research initiatives. This registry's purpose is to collect vital participant data and specimens, capitalizing on the substantial expertise in respiratory and immunologic translational science at the University of North Carolina.
This is a short survey that will help NC CEAL prioritize resources, programming, and support to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 in communities across North Carolina.
To spread awareness and resources about Long COVID within Eastern North Carolina to healthcare providers, community health workers, lay health advisors, and community leaders. The assessments and evaluations are intended to gather prior knowledge and knowledge gained about Long COVID as well as facilitation and overall effectiveness of the educational sessions.
Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, students in North Carolina and throughout the world have suffered learning lags particularly in mathematics. Declines in overall proficiency scores of most student subgroups have been reported nationwide. Local efforts to recover learning have yielded minimal gains over the past three years, and this study seeks to uncover the secret to successful supplemental education program models that help to increase academic gains for underachieving student subgroups in mathematics.
This study seeks to understand how public health leaders and more fully take into account the influence of American Individualism on public health practice. The values and ethics of public health as a discipline is at odds with the powerful and prominent cultural narrative of American Individualism. This misalignment is weakens the population level aim of public health and prioritizes individual freedom and ideas above the needs of the whole public. But American Individualism is normalized and permanent part of how Americans understand the world. Public health leaders must better engage, communicate, and act within the context of American Individualism, even though it does not align with there approach to health and health improvement.
The purpose of this study is to better understand researchers' and stakeholder partners' experiences working on stakeholder-engaged health-related research projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also hope to identify best practices, challenges, strategies, and desired resources related to working on stakeholder-engaged health-related research projects during COVID-19 and other health emergencies
To better understand whether people in jail have ever received COVID-19 testing and vaccination and whether they would be will to receive these services in jail and after their release.
The goals of this survey are to: 1) identify ways to support the health and well-being of teachers as they navigate teaching and life during this unprecedented 2020-2021 school year, and 2) help identify ways in which teachers or schools may benefit from additional efforts to minimize infection transmission.