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Title: Assessing the impact of curriculum on open and transparent research practices
Author: Markant, Doug, Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Open scholarship, Education, Higher
Description: Over the past decade, in response to the so-called “replication crisis”, psychology researchers have begun adopting practices that promote openness and transparency. Currently, these emerging best practices are not consistently represented in the ...

Title: Association of sleep attitudes with sleep hygiene, duration, and quality : a survey exploration of the moderating effect of age, gender, race, and perceived socioeconomic status
Author: Ruggiero, Aria, Peach, Hannah D., Gaultney, Jane F.
Subjects--Topical: Sleep, Public health
Description: Objectives: Sleep health is becoming more widely accepted as a possible preventative strategy against chronic disease and negative psychosocial outcomes. It is important to understand whether attitudes towards sleep vary by demographic characteris...

Title: Auditory processing difficulties influence on perceptual learning
Author: Fiallo, Katherine M., Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Auditory perception, Perceptual learning
Description: Understanding spoken speech is a complex process that comes to most people easily, yet past research demonstrates that some people face difficulties with auditory processing. Listeners adjust to variations in speech by integrating auditory, visual...

Title: Biopsychosocial contexts influence adult cognitive functioning concurrently and longitudinally
Author: Bennett, Jeanette M., Payen, Ameante, Bateman, James R., Persin, Michael J.
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Cognition--Age factors, Aging
Description: Background: Cognitive aging is a complex process that impacts human behavior. Identifying the factors that preserve cognitive functioning is a public health priority, given that 20% of the US population will be at least 65 years old in the next de...

Title: Childhood ADHD, going beyond the brain : a meta-analysis on peripheral physiological markers of the heart and the gut
Author: Bennett, Jeanette M., Payen, Ameante, Chen, Michelle J., Carter, T. Grace, Kilmer, Ryan P.
Subjects--Topical: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Children
Description: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed in children. Questions regarding its increased diagnostic rates and pharmacological treatments in developing children have led to a more holis...

Title: Examining the roles of neuroticism and extraversion with social support on depression : potential pathways to enhance mental health
Author: Hopkins, Jasmine, Bennett, Jeanette M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Depression, Mental, Mental health
Description: Background: Depression is a common worldwide illness that affects the quality of life, alters brain structures, and can even lead to suicide. Over the past few decades, the increase in depression and depressive symptoms among college students has ...

Title: Gender differences affecting the relationship between sleep attitudes, sleep behaviors and sleep outcomes
Author: Zendels, Philip, Ruggiero, Aria, Gaultney, Jane F.
Subjects--Topical: Sleep, Health attitudes
Description: Research has found that discrepancies exist in many health-related behaviors, leading to discrepancies in health outcomes, between men and women. Among these, women tend to have more positive attitudes towards sleep and better sleep hygiene practi...

Title: Implementation of an Ask Me 3 education video to improve outcomes in post-myocardial infarction patients
Author: Blanchard, Anita, Jordan, Kathleen, Shue-McGuffin, Katherine
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Cardiovascular system--Diseases, Hospital care
Description: Objective: The Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in an adult cardiology practice in a large metropolitan city, provide hospital follow-up care to post-myocardial infarction (MI) patients. The APPs identified a problem: patients retained very litt...

Title: Inflammation–nature’s way to efficiently respond to all types of challenges : implications for understanding and managing "the epidemic" of chronic diseases
Author: Bennett, Jeanette M., Reeves, Glenn, Billman, George E., Sturmberg, Joachim P.
Subjects--Topical: Stress (Psychology)--Health aspects, Clinical medicine, Inflammation, Psychoneuroimmunology, Chronic diseases, Complex adaptive systems
Description: Siloed or singular system approach to disease management is common practice, developing out of traditional medical school education. Textbooks of medicine describe a huge number of discrete diseases, usually in a systematic fashion following headi...

Title: Low-dose metformin as a monotherapy does not reduce non-small-cell lung cancer tumor burden in mice
Author: Marino, Joseph S., Stott Bond, Nicole L., Dréau, Didier, Marriott, Ian, Bennett, Jeanette M., Turner, Michael J., Arthur, Susan
Subjects--Topical: Lungs--Cancer, Musculoskeletal system
Description: Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) makes up 80–85% of lung cancer diagnoses. Lung cancer patients undergo surgical procedures, chemotherapy, and/or radiation. Chemotherapy and radiation can induce deleterious systemic side effects, particularly wi...

Title: Low-dose metformin treatment reduces in vitro growth of the LL/2 non-small cell lung cancer cell line
Author: Marino, Joseph S., Dreau, Didier, Marriott, Ian, Bennett, Jeanette M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Cancer cells, Lungs--Cancer
Description: Lung cancer maintains a relatively small survival rate (~19%) over a 5-year period and up to 80-85% of all lung cancer diagnoses are Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). To determine whether metformin reduces non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) LL/2...

Title: Meditation, personality, and workplace stress
Author: Waters, Andrew, Shanock, Linda
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Job stress, Meditation
Description: The prevalence of stress occurs across various levels of the workplace can affect employees at any level of an organization. This study explored the role of meditation frequency on stress reduction in the workplace. Previous research emphasizes th...

Title: Mindfulness-informed guided imagery to target physical activity : a mixed method feasibility and acceptability pilot study
Author: Levens, Sara, Mitchell, Alexis D., Martin, Laura E., Baldwin, Austin S.
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Exercise, Mind and body
Description: Physical activity offers substantial mind-body health benefits and reduced mortality, yet many individuals are chronically underactive. Physical activity interventions may benefit from integrative approaches that join components of mindfulness and...

Title: Online mindfulness intervention for inflammatory bowel disease : adherence and efficacy
Author: Johnson, Susan K., Forbes, Leila
Subjects--Topical: Inflammatory bowel diseases, Mindfulness (Psychology)
Description: The impact of stress and other psychological variables on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) prognosis, treatment response, and functional level is well-established; however, typical IBD treatment focuses on the physiological pathology of the diseas...

Title: Optimizing recruitment for qualitative research : a comparison of social media, emails, and offline methods
Author: Gallicano, Tiffany, Sledzieski, Nana, Shaikh, Samira, Levens, Sara
Subjects--Topical: Qualitative research, Social media
Description: Participant recruitment through social media platforms has been suggested as an effective method for sampling from specific populations; however, recent online recruitment attempts have been met with varying levels of success. In the current study...

Title: Pay by position
Author: Jackson, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Pay equity, Gender identity in the workplace, Sexism
Description: This community-engaged project is in partnership with the League of Women Voters Charlotte Mecklenburg Chapter. The purpose of the project is to compile data to inform a corporate scorecard on the important metrics of the gender equity gap. With t...

Title: Prosocial orientation and COVID‐19 vaccine willingness in the U.S.
Author: Canevello, Amy, Magid, Kirby, Jiang, Tao, Perry, Jasmine
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: Despite evidence of the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and their wide availability, many in the U.S. are not vaccinated. Research demonstrates that prosocial orientations predict COVID-19 health behaviors (e.g., social distancing) a...

Title: Sleep attitudes as a predictor of sleep outcomes : a secondary data analysis
Author: Ruggiero, Aria, Peach, Hannah D., Zendels, Philip, Gaultney, Jane F.
Subjects--Topical: Sleep, Health attitudes
Description: Objectives: Attitudes have been widely studied as predictors of a number of social and health behaviors. However, attitudes predicting sleep outcomes have only recently been examined, despite sleep being conceptualized as an important health behav...

Title: Task goals constrain interpersonal coordination : evidence from the alignment of speech in dialogues
Author: Sulkunte, Niyathi
Date Created: 2021, 2021, 2021
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Cognitive styles

Title: Visualizing alignment in joint attention
Author: Jackson, Daniel, Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Eye tracking, Psychology, Joint attention
Description: Success in joint tasks requires shared understanding and coordination between team members. Some studies suggest that, in motor tasks, various coordination patterns (including alignment and complimentary) can support achieving shared goals (Wallot...