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The Graduate School’s Impact Awards are designed to recognize the significance of graduate student research and their to contributions to North Carolina in areas of education, economic, physical, social or cultural well-being.

Flood events can be dramatic and traumatic. People exposed to floods are liable to suffer from a variety of adverse mental health outcomes. The adverse effects of stressors during the recovery process (secondary stressors) can sometimes be just as severe as the initial trauma. Six months after extensive flooding in rural Australia, a survey of 2530 locals was conducted focusing on their flood experiences and mental health status. This mixed methods study analysed (a) quantitative data from 521 r...

As the climate changes and extreme weather events become more common, the role of house and contents insurance in managing risks is garnering more attention. There is concern, as insurance is a key safety net in contemporary life, that significant levels of house and contents underinsurance are placing individuals and communities at undue risk. Yet, the phenomenon of underinsurance is under-researched. Informed by a document analysis of findings from a multi-modal project investigating the exper...

SINGAPORE, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Merlien Institute announces Qualitative Market Research Event on 8-9 November, Singapore

Rommel Sergio, associate dean and professor at Canadian University Dubai, is also a writer

Background: Individuals living with heart failure often require informal caregiving assistance for optimal self-care maintenance. The influence of caregiver burden and resilience on dyadic congruence is not well understood. Objective: To compare how dyadic congruence is influenced by level of burden and resilience expressed by caregivers of patients with heart failure. Methods: Mixed-methods analysis of individuals with heart failure and their caregivers, focusing on measures of caregiver burden...

Healthcare workers have directly provided care for COVID-19 patients, and have faced many additional sources leading to poor mental well-being. The study aimed to investigate the mental health problems and related factors among healthcare staff in Vietnam. A descriptive cross-sectional mixed methods study, combining quantitative and qualitative research methods, was performed among 400 healthcare workers working at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Ninh Binh General Hospital from t...

Background: In response to increasing emergency department presentations and wait times in Australia, multiple strategies and models of care have been implemented with varying results. One effective strategy has been the implementation of pre-hospital blood collection by paramedics when they insert an intravenous cannula. This research aims to determine the efficiency of and barriers to wider implementation of a pre-hospital blood collection trial in a regional context. In particular, to evaluat...

SCAPE-pain is helping us rethink and redesign how we deliver effective care to the large and increasing number of people with joint pain.

Four Columbia students were selected as Rhodes Scholars, plus more awards and grants for faculty and students.