The primary objective is to establish a comprehensive registry of hospitalized patients with respiratory failure. The registry will be a platform for forthcoming research initiatives. This registry's purpose is to collect vital participant data and specimens, capitalizing on the substantial expertise in respiratory and immunologic translational science at the University of North Carolina.
Collecting nasal swab samples from symptomatic subjects potentially infected with COVID19 or influenza. These samples will be used to compare diagnostic testing accuracy of the new Panbio device panel versus other comparative devices.
Subjects who have tested positive for Covid-19, experiencing fatigue, and were referred for sleep testing are needed to complete a short survey. This research will be used to compare if fatigue was a new-onset.
Medical school is a time for students to begin developing their professional identity through interactions with faculty and residents in health care settings. With the dynamic disruption presented by the pandemic as well as the civil unrest resulting from the murder of George Floyd, this study seeks to better understand medical students' experiences in a time of crisis.
We will identify changes in the numbers, seriousness, and outcomes of breast cancers diagnosed during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to before the pandemic.
Physicians are at risk for high rates of depression, substance abuse, suicide, and burnout, an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress. New working conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated these occupational health burdens for physicians at a time when baseline levels of stress, burnout, and poor mental health were already overwhelmingly high.This onslaught of new (and potentially recurrent) acute stressors on top of chronic stress presents crisis of occupational health and moral integrity for physicians. There is an important need to (1) characterize the relationship between pandemic workplace conditions and adverse health outcomes (e.g. fatigue, stress, burnout, mental illness) and (2) identify work practices and organizational characteristics that promote occupational health and wellbeing and reduce the risk of such outcomes. To respond to these urgent and ongoing needs, we propose a novel exploratory study of the occupational wellbeing of physicians working on the front line of COVID-19 care.
The purpose of this research study is to understand how COVID-19 affected child care access in Durham and how child care impacts parents/guardians. We hope to use these insights to better inform policies designed to support caregivers and improve access to affordable child care.
The purpose of this study is to interview nurses who have worked in inpatient care settings before and after March 2020 to assess how the changes in working conditions have or have not affected their experience with burnout and whether they are considering transitions away from bedside nursing as a result.
The purpose of this study is to determine if interpersonal relationships of LGBTQ+ identifying individuals changed throughout the course of the pandemic.
The goal of the study is to understand how the increased availability of telehealth related to the COVID-19 pandemic affected staffing for behavioral health services in critical access hospitals.