This study is intended to explore the relationships between use of social media, attitudes about privacy and perceptions of emerging technologies. The study will lead to a greater understanding of how individual perceptions and preferences can affect use habits on social media, allowing the researcher to understand how knowledge and awareness of new technologies may be shaping the behaviors of Internet users.
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute recently updated the MIC breakpoints of daptomycin for E.faecalis and E.faecium, including a new "susceptible-dose dependent" category where isolate susceptibility is contingent on the dose of daptomycin. The effectiveness of the new SDD category in directing clinicians to use higher-dose daptomycin strategies has not yet been evaluated. It is possible that the unfamiliar SDD category prompts clinicians to avoid daptomycin altogether. This study seeks to evaluate how "SDD" has been interpreted at the University of North Carolina Medical Center (UNCMC) and whether clinicians select therapy differently when microbiologic susceptibility is reported as "S" or susceptible or "SDD" or susceptible dose-dependent.
This is an experiment to learn more about how people with mental illness are perceived. Participants will read a brief story and answer questions.
The purpose of this research study is to learn about how family advocates/specialists/support workers perceive the families they work with and how they support their partnerships with diverse families.
The purpose of this research study is to determine non-carceral skills and tools that abolitionist library staff might use to harmful actions in public libraries and to identify barriers that staff may face in successfully using those tools. In order to identify these skills, tools, and barriers, we are conducting exploratory interviews with public library staff who reside in the United States, identify as abolitionists (or practice abolition), and have experience working directly with patrons.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the opinions of residents, fellows and attendings on the robotics credentialling process used in teaching hospitals that incorporate robotics in their obstetrics and gynecology (OB-GYN) curriculum.
I will be using a comparative case study of four North Carolina school districts with the lowest and highest resources to analyze the differences in schools' responses to free/reduced-price meal distribution during COVID-19 school closures. I am conducting this study because it will allow us to see how school districts across North Carolina operate differently in regards to meal distribution when kids are not in school, and I will be able to analyze how nutrition, academics, and personal wellbeing are impacted across various school districts.
We are working with three other study sites (Harvard Medical School, University of California Davis, and University of Oklahoma Tulsa) to assemble experts on the teaching of trauma-informed care (TIC) to undergraduate medical students. These experts (including community members, medical educators, TIC specialists, and medical students) will indicate what skills they think are necessary for medical students to practice TIC. This list of competencies will ensure the next generation of physicians are optimally prepared to treat victims of traumatic events.
This purpose of this activity is to assess whether validated newborn indicators are feasible to implement in health facilities in Bangladesh.
This study will use the practice profile methodology (Metz, 2016) to investigate the use of predictive analytics tools in child welfare agencies. Through interviewing and surveying workers, supervisors, administrators, and stakeholders, the research team will identify the guiding principles, core components, and activities associated with using such tools in child welfare practice.