This is a retrospective study whose goal is to record and analyze outcomes following treatment of head and neck cancers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Studying patient characteristics, treatments and outcomes may yield information that could further improve therapy for future patients.
To observe the patterns that occur when learners must pluralize new words when they are learning a language with multiple plural suffixes.
This study will test how well a digital version of Targeted Reading Instruction (TRI) works to improve the reading ability of students in Kindergarten through third grade. Creating a TRI App will allow us to easily increase the use of TRI with students across the country.
The purpose of the DETECT study is to learn more about how some breast tissue features show up on a mammogram and what these features can tell us about the potential for a breast cancer diagnosis. Your participation will help us understand how the appearance of those breast tissue features is affected by hormone levels. Our objective is to collect urine samples that we will use to measure hormone levels. We will examine how hormone levels are related to breast tissue features measured from a breast cancer screening mammogram.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate medical student's exposure to Otolaryngology and surgical procedures before and after participating in an Otolaryngology simulation lab.
In this study, participants will complete a diary each time they visit the Archive of Our Own describing the form of the visit and how they chose to engage or not engage with any fanworks during that visit. They'll keep the diary over the course of 2 weeks. After participants complete their diary, they'll perform a 30 minute follow-up interview discussing their responses. This study will explore how users find and choose to engage with fanworks, with a focus on the tagging system of the Archive of Our Own.
This study is interview-focused and intends to understand what influences families and how kinship is created through different cultures.
We are conducting a study to understand how diverse pregnant people make decisions about prenatal diagnosis when fetal anomalies are present. We will be conducting semi-structured interviews of individuals that have been in the above clinical situation to better understand how personal, community, and systems-level factors impact their decision making. We will also be studying the longitudinal impact of receiving genetic information during pregnancy, particularly among those that have undergone exome or genome sequencing for prenatal diagnosis.
Examine the transition-related experiences and post-sport outcomes of former NFL players.
While some patients have carpal tunnel syndrome only on one side (either their right or left wrist/hand), others have it on both sides. These patients might need two separate surgeries - one on each wrist. Some patients report worse pain after their second surgery compared to the first. The purpose of this study is to figure out if people have more pain after their second surgery or after their first.