This study aims to define new forms of diabetes that are not yet understood. Participants will be asked to provide medical and family history and may be asked to have clinical lab testing performed.
This research aims to explore the influence of diverse narrative formats on adult learners' attitudes towards postsecondary education. It addresses the critical need to engage adult learners in higher education marketing efforts. The study will involve two focus groups with adult learners currently enrolled at Cape Fear Community College. Participants will be shown different narrative formats, including web-based text stories and videos, followed by guided discussions. The goal is to understand how these formats impact factors such as attention, identification, social proof, and emotion.
The purpose of this study is to understand how employees behavior is impacted by their resilience.
The purpose of this research study is to better understand how people think about their bodies.
Participants will be sent a 10-15 minute survey that will investigate football helmet maintenance to ensure optimum safety for our high school football athletes. It is imperative to understand our current knowledge base on this topic to improve our overall sports medicine care for our patients.
This project tests a short, evidence-based video to help educate patients about effective and safe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies for acute musculoskeletal pain (MSP). Subjects will be randomly placed into one of two study groups: intervention (educational video) and usual care. Patients will be contacted at baseline and at 1 and 3 months after the date of their acute visit encounter for follow-up. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the success of the video intervention for improving pain recovery and preventing long-term opioid use among adults with musculoskeletal pain.
The 2023 OBXFS Capstone study will explore human perceptions of electrical lighting and artificial light at night (ALAN) on the ocean coast of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. In an increasingly illuminated world, ALAN has many unintended consequences related to energy usage, ecology, human health, safety, and the night sky. Yet, ALAN is still rarely considered a serious problem due to low awareness by the pubic and governing authorities. The study will also assess residents' and visitors' opinions and perceptions regarding light pollution, including knowledge and perceived effects and risks, as well as levels of acceptability of preserving dark areas or reducing lighting, though a structured survey.
To find out if the addition of 2 blocks of inotuzumab ozogamicin to the standard chemotherapy regimen will improve outcomes in children and young adults with High-Risk (HR) B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL).
To investigate undergraduate nursing students' experience with, knowledge, and perceptions of e-cigarettes.
The goal of this study is to explore the beliefs that people living in the United States have about equality. The study is particularly interested in the increasingly popular idea that people should relate to one another as equals, and therefore some status differences among people may undermine equality.