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.
This is a research study to find out if antiviral or other drugs can help people who have COVID symptoms that have lasted more than 3 months after a COVID infection. This condition is known as Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC), including Long COVID.
The purpose of this research study is to assess the successes and challenges that community pharmacies have faced in administering childhood vaccines to rural NC populations.
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 study wants to understand adult long COVID patients' experiences of physical and mental health symptoms over 1 year and also the impact that living with the long COVID condition has on school and work and being able to carry out activities of living each day over 1 year. Also, the study wants to understand whether there are certain markers in the blood, behaviors people carry out, or pieces of information like age, race, or sex which are related to experience of these symptoms mentioned above or the impact on school/work or other activities of normal life. This information can help researchers know how to help long COVID patients with treatments or other services to improve their health and lives.
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.
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.