The CDC reports that more than half of STD cases occur in youth aged 15-24 years old. As such, STDs are an important public health concern. This pilot study will test a series of condom promotion messages to select the most promising messages encouraging condom use among young adults.
This is a study being conducted at many sites across the US to evaluate patients who are older than 50 years old, who have sudden bleeding in the brain (intracerebral hemorrhage) while taking a statin medication. It is unclear if continuing to take a statin medication after this type of injury can increase the risk of another hemorrhage, stroke or cardiac event. This study will assign patients to 1 of 2 groups. One group will continue the statin medication they were taking previously. The other group will discontinue the statin medication. Both groups will be followed for 2 years to see if they have any additional medical events.
Media are an important resource for the public and policymakers to learn about the issues of human trafficking. Survivors' voices are often missing from media coverage, however, and in some cases, survivors have reported negative interactions with journalists. This study surveys the experiences that survivors of human trafficking have had or want to have with media. Results will contribute to understandings about and improvements to media practices, and to develop training materials and other resources for survivors to be best-prepared to work with media as news sources and storytellers.
Current dialysis vascular access patient education materials can be overwhelming, not written in plain language, and not have enough realistic information about the steps involved in getting a dialysis vascular access before starting hemodialysis. This study is being done to create and test a dialysis vascular access educational video for patients. Participants would take part in a one-time interview about their thoughts on dialysis vascular access education and their ideas for a vascular access video.
Electronic patient reported outcomes (ePROs) are self-report measures assessing how patients feel and function. UNC Health Care is implementing ePROs in outpatient clinics. This is a prospective observational study of an existing health system ePRO initiative. The purpose of this study is to build an evidence base to understand implementation processes for an ePRO symptom screening model in real-world clinics to better support clinics and underserved patient groups.
To gather national compensation data from behavioral science faculty who teach in family medicine residency programs.
The study intends to assess the effectiveness of a board exam curricula for a group of gastroenterology fellows. The study aims to assess how prepared this curricula makes the gastroenterology fellows feel, as well as objective impact on in-training exam scores.
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the "Resilience through Improved Support and Empowerment after Surgery" (RISES) program. This program is designed to provide post-operative services (social support, food security, durable medical equipment) to trauma surgery patients who have unmet social needs being discharged from UNC Hospital.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new test being developed by Tempus for patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). The goal of this new test is to predict the likelihood of a patient's cancer coming back after treatment, and to further explore changes in patient's tumors throughout treatment to see how they respond.
This is an exploratory study in cancer biomarker research, hoping to identify cell-signaling using DNA, in patients with SCLC.