The primary objective of this study is to document epidemiological and ecological trends in both outpatient and inpatient cases of ARI in Kasese District in southwestern Uganda. We will also establish of a network of healthcare facilities to conduct research on preventing and improving the management of ARI in this region.
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 SMILE Mindfulness study is a project aimed at evaluating the potential benefits of a home-based mindfulness training program in enhancing both emotional and cardiac health in Black and Latino individuals.
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 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
This research will help identify underserved areas of need within breweries and support emerging craft professionals in translating their skills to meet those needs and improve brewery outcomes.
The purpose of this survey is to determine if NCNA/AHEC nursing volunteers were used in the COVID response and in what roles and settings, as well as to determine what barriers existed to volunteering. This information will help with future disaster management and planning.
The purpose of this study is to shed a clearer light on the diverse ways in which religion and politics interact in North Carolina. How do churchgoers think about their religious beliefs and how they relate these to political issues? How do they navigate the issues of our time, and how do they perceive their local church communities dealing with the issues of our time?
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
There is limited information among young people about a condition called Long COVID, where individuals have or are experiencing a symptom or symptoms of COVID-19 for 1 month or longer. We are conducting a one-time survey to gain data on this issue among undergraduate and graduate/professional students ages 18-29 at UNC CH.