The purpose of this study is to interview nurses who have worked in inpatient care settings before and after March 2020 to assess how the changes in working conditions have or have not affected their experience with burnout and whether they are considering transitions away from bedside nursing as a result.
Physicians are at risk for high rates of depression, substance abuse, suicide, and burnout, an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress. New working conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated these occupational health burdens for physicians at a time when baseline levels of stress, burnout, and poor mental health were already overwhelmingly high.This onslaught of new (and potentially recurrent) acute stressors on top of chronic stress presents crisis of occupational health and moral integrity for physicians. There is an important need to (1) characterize the relationship between pandemic workplace conditions and adverse health outcomes (e.g. fatigue, stress, burnout, mental illness) and (2) identify work practices and organizational characteristics that promote occupational health and wellbeing and reduce the risk of such outcomes. To respond to these urgent and ongoing needs, we propose a novel exploratory study of the occupational wellbeing of physicians working on the front line of COVID-19 care.
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.
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
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?
This implementation science study will use mixed methods and an interrupted time series design to evaluate an implementation strategy intended to expand the reach and effectiveness of COVID-19 testing and vaccination services in underserved populations in the Piedmont region of NC. The primary service outcomes (i.e., reach and effectiveness) will be evaluated using review of existing routinely collected data. The primary implementation outcomes will be assessed through mixed methods research with patients who received, and providers who delivered, COVID-19 testing or prevention services, such as vaccination, at a Consortium-supported site such as a Federally Qualified Health Center administered by Piedmont Health. A standardized script will be used to inform potential participants about the study, their research options, and to screen to see if they are preliminarily eligible to take part in the study.
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.
This research study consists of a 10-15 minute online survey about COVID-19 vaccine booster shots that will be distributed to rural community pharmacists the Southeastern United States who are part of a practice-based research network (RURAL-CP). The purpose of this research is to understand the extent to which rural pharmacies are willing and able to deliver COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in their communities. In addition to asking about pharmacists' interest and ability to offer booster shots, the survey asks about preferences on vaccine brand, patient communication about the vaccines, and COVID-19 take-home rapid tests. The data collected will help inform COVID-19 vaccine and testing needs in rural community pharmacies.
The reason we are doing this study is to understand why some people who got COVID-19 are still sick many months after being infected, and how this affects the body. This is sometimes called "Long COVID" or "PASC", which stands for post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection. As part of the study, we would like to get information from you, and put that together with information from other children and families across the country. This will make it easier for us to learn about the different symptoms that children and families are getting, and to understand how many children and families are getting Long COVID, why some children and families are getting Long COVID, the effects that Long COVID is having on the body, and what can be done to help them.
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.