While platforms market gig work as an opportunity for entrepreneurship and as a fall-back option during periods of unemployment, the current coronavirus pandemic -- and the importance of social distancing -- suggests that gig employment might not be a solution during times of national crisis. This mixed methods research project will utilize in-depth interviews and demographic surveys (conducted remotely) with up to 100 gig workers in NYC affiliated to examine how workers are experiencing the virus and how it is impacting their lives and livelihoods.
The current project examines the reasons for increasing turnover in ICU nurses at a large academic medical center. This project investigates the effectiveness of the implementation of an affect labeling intervention on increasing resilience, reducing perceived stress, and decreasing intention to leave.
We will identify the relationship between pre-covid (March 2020) and current autoimmune disease testing volumes, positivity rates, and staff shortages. The statistical significance of the correlation coefficients (r value) will be assessed. T test mean correlation with be analyzed with the mean difference per test before and post covid-19. How laboratory management goals/priorities have changed will be summarized and analyzed for similarities, differences, and trends.
The purpose of this research study is to assess the successes and challenges that community pharmacies have faced in administering childhood vaccines to rural NC populations.
To evaluate the efficacy of bemnifosbuvir (BEM) compared with placebo in reducing all-cause hospitalization or all-cause death in COVID-19 outpatients receiving only supportive care.
The purpose of the study is to see how Kenyan clerics at the Coastal Region used social media platforms to communicate with their followers in areas including spiritual needs, teaching, counseling during the pandemic due to lockdowns by the government.
The purpose of this study is to test how well people with disabilities understand texts about COVID-19. The texts are written to make them easy to read. This is important because most health information is written at a high level. Many people with disabilities read a beginning levels. Subjects will read the texts and complete different comprehension items. We will compare how well the different kinds of items work.
This study asks participants about their pre-pandemic, current, and expected post-pandemic behaviors to better understand long-term societal changes that may occur as a result of the pandemic. The study focuses on transportation-related outcomes.
In this study, we are trying to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among vulnerable construction workers, specifically racial and ethnic minority women, to better understand training and workplace needs that construction employers should consider when planning preparedness and general health, safety, and wellbeing policy.
The purpose of this study is to explore how moral distress impacted CCNs who actively engaged in practice during the pandemic and today. A quantitative survey design will be used to gather CCNs perceptions of moral distress using the Moral Distress Scale-Revised (MDS-R., Epstein et al, 2021); additional open-ended questions at the end of the survey will be used to gauge nurses' coping strategies and supports available to deal with moral distress. The open-ended questions will be derived from the literature, integrate the PIs observations, and used to complement findings from the MDS-R. The focus of this study will be solely on critical care nurses that worked through the COVID-19 pandemic due to the high-stress nature of that unit