To evaluate campus-wide efforts to promote the enhancement of peer support for community mental health and well-being at UNC-CH.
This study is a collaboration with the UNC Sports Medicine Institute and aims to determine the effect of local muscle vibration on gastrocnemius and soleus muscle activity, postural control, and strength in those with chronic ankle instability (CAI).
This research study aims to explore how elementary teachers describe high-quality professional development and mathematics coaching. This study intends to identify what teachers consider to be the key characteristics of high-quality professional development and examine how the key characteristics of mathematics coaching identified by the teachers align with the characteristics of high-quality professional development described by the literature. Finally, the study seeks to assess the extent of how teachers perceive math coaching as high-quality professional development. This study is important because it can provide insights into the perceptions and experiences of elementary teachers regarding high-quality professional development and mathematics coaching, and it can help inform the design and implementation of effective professional development programs for elementary teachers.
The purpose of this research study is to understand better how to involve children and parents during medical visits.
This online survey is being disseminated in North Carolina and Florida to understand how technology has changed the ways millennials and generation X travel. Technologies include smartphones, apps, ridehailing services such as Uber or Lyft, and delivery services. Findings will help provide urban planners with a better understanding of travel needs and the role technology is playing.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact different marketing messages have on green sportswear consumption. For example, do advertisements containing claims about the "greenness" of a sportswear product improve perceptions of the product and accompanying brand? The findings from this research will supplement a gap in the current body of literature discussing sustainable product marketing. The current published literature provides little to no insight into green sportswear marketing. Lastly, this research hopes to provide useful and actionable managerial insights to marketers. This research is being conducted as part of a senior honors thesis in business.
Purpose: To document the continued importance of formal peasant jurisdiction in developing economic opportunity for young adults in the Ecuadorian Andes. Participants: Elected council members in rural peasant communities and young adult residents of those communities Procedures (methods): The study entails (a) archival research on the continuity of peasant community registrations; (b) semi-structured interviews with elected leaders; and (c) semi structured interviews with young adult community members focused on social media use
This study will develop and test an online group course on self-compassion to help caregivers of children with physical disabilities manage stress and improve their well-being.
The purpose of this study is to identify factors that can aid in the design and implementation of a strong safety culture among Hispanic construction workers. The Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design and Worker Well-Being will partner with a global engineering and construction management services company to assess the safety culture and sense of inclusion for the Hispanic workforce, which ultimately contributes to a safer environment and an industry with less worker injuries and fatalities.
This project will evaluate two training models of an evidence-based online dementia care training for direct care staff in assisted living. It will examine the extent to which each training is able to be implemented by assisted living communities, and to the extent the trainings improve staff knowledge and attitudes, change care practices, and improve the wellbeing of staff, residents, and residents' family members. Results will inform next steps in dementia care training for the assisted living and broader long-term care workforce.