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Personalizing Mathematics to Maximize Relevance to Careers

This study is designed to be conducted in K-12 math contexts in order to examine how personalizing math tasks to involve familiar and interesting careers and out of school interests can enable students to engage in effective math learning.

Age & Gender
  • 12 years ~ 18 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Emergency Medicine: Diversity in Discipline, Professions, and Patient Population: Pre- and Post- Course Surveys

The course "Emergency Medicine: Diversity in Discipline, Professions, and Patient Populations" provides rising second year medical students with early exposure to the specialty of Emergency Medicine and fosters conversations regarding healthcare disparities in medicine and ways to address them. After an immersion in the specialty, students help to create content for and lead a week-long program for high school and/or college students. The purpose of the surveys is to assess the students' perceptions of there knowledge in areas of patient care, procedural skills, ultrasound, and healthcare disparities before and after the course.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • UNC Students (undergrad, grad, professional)
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Physical Activity Pathway for Patients with Osteoarthritis in Primary Care

The purpose of this study is to test a program to help people who have knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA) to increase their physical activity (PA).

Age & Gender
  • 65 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Aging
  • Bones, Joints, Muscles
  • Pain
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Public Health Responses to Inland Flooding and COVID-19

This study is designed to understand how local health professionals address inland flooding from hurricanes and how the COVID-19 pandemic may be affecting these efforts. Researchers in this study will use this information to develop recommendations for improving future response efforts.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Chronic Conditions
  • Injury/Injury Prevention
  • COVID-19
  • and 2 more
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Provider buprenorphine perceptions survey

We will conduct an online survey of health professionals to learn whether they are able to prescribe buprenorphine (a medication for opioid use disorder) and things that may make it difficult or easy to prescribe bup to patients who would benefit from it.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Chronic Conditions
  • Substance Use (tobacco, alcohol, opioids, etc)
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Identifying Workplace Stressors at UNC that Lead to Burnout

Burnout within the health care setting is a known problem. The COVID-19 pandemic has lead to dramatic changes in the health care workplace and may lead to worsening burnout. This study aims to identify the most worrisome workplace stressors at UNC across departments so that changes can be made to address burnout.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Opinions and Perceptions
  • Social or Workplace Dynamics
  • COVID-19
  • and 2 more
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Exacerbations Study

The purpose of the study is to better understand acute respiratory infections in patients with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD). This information will help to plan prevention and treatment studies in the future.

Age & Gender
  • 6 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Lungs and Breathing
  • Rare Diseases
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

The effect of MMLO document

We hope to further study the effect of the Meet My Loved One (MMLO) document on health care delivery, communication between patients/families and staff/providers, as well as potential health care provider resiliency.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • UNC or UNC Health employees
  • UNC Students (undergrad, grad, professional)
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Reading and Memory

The purpose is to examine the psychological processes underlying reading (and language comprehension more generally) in healthy, literate adults, focusing particularly on how the representation of information in memory supports and constrains processing. This will contribute to a greater understanding of the basic processes involved in reading, which may lead to improvements in education and more effective uses of information technology.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Language and Speech
  • UNC Students (undergrad, grad, professional)
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Ithaka Teaching with Data in the Social Sciences

Asking instructors how they teach students to use data in order to understand how the library can best support this effort.

Age & Gender
  • 21 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • UNC or UNC Health employees
  • UNC Students (undergrad, grad, professional)
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
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