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Caregiver's Perceptions of High-quality Early Education and Care
This is an exploratory study which looks at how caregivers define high-quality early education and care. Participants will fill out a questionnaire containing open-ended and closed-ended questions. It will take participants no longer than 20 minutes to complete.
Adults who are fluent in English
Adults who are regular caregivers of children between birth and age 5
Individuals who can read and respond to written close- and open-ended survey questions electronically
Individuals who live in the United States
Individuals who are not fluent in English
Individuals who are not regular caregivers of children between birth and age 5
Individuals with poor reading comprehension and are otherwise limited in their ability to read and respond to survey questions
Individuals who do not currently live in the United States of America
Emotion Regulation During the Transition to Parenthood
The purpose of this study is to understand parents' experiences of emotion regulation in parenting and coparenting contexts and how individual differences in parents' emotion regulation are associated with well-being and relationship functioning.
Coparents will be asked to fill out questionnaires and engage in interviews with the researchers during three online sessions across the transition to parenthood.
110
One parent is pregnant and in their third trimester
First-time parents
English-speaking
NSF Proposal 2000047: Understanding the contribution of individual differences todomain-general and domain-specific components of false memories in both young and older adults
This research study investigates the neural processes underlying how people process, store, and remember visual or auditory information.
There will be two in person visits completing tasks on a computer and some verbal tasks.
$10.00/hour for behavioral tasks, $20.00/hour for fMRI scanner tasks.
Ages 60-85
High school education
The Influences of Performance Expectancy on Cryptocurrency Traders’ Behavior in Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Projects
The study's primary objective is to see how people react to the influences of performance expectancy in Initial Coin Offering (ICO) projects. As a participant in this study, you will be asked to answer 28 questions about your experiences with ICO projects. Then, at the end of the survey, participants will be briefed on the potential correlations between performance expectancy and how this phenomenon influences participants' behaviors toward ICO projects.
The participant will be asked to complete a questionnaire composed of 28 questions about ICO projects during the study. Then, at the end of the survey, participants will be debriefed on the potential correlations between performance expectancy and ICO projects.
Active cryptocurrency traders.
18 years of age or more
Residing in The US
Non active cryptocurrency traders
Less than 18 years of age
Not residing in the US
A Phase 2 Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Efficacy of TTI-101 in Participants with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
This is a phase 2 pharmaceutical sponsored clinical trial looking to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of experimental drug TTI-101 in patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
Participants will attend 7 visits over 18-20 weeks at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Participants will receive study treatment for 12 weeks and the study doctor will continue to monitor you for 4 weeks. The study visits will involve completing some procedures and tests such as taking some blood and urine samples, taking vitals signs, physical exams, electrocardiograms (ECGs), questionnaires, breathing and walking tests, and a high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scan.
1050
Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Able to perform breathing tests
Receiving steroids >10mg/day
Other types of respiratory disease
Other uncontrolled, clinically relevant disease
No active cancer
The Role of Emojis in Generating and Responding to Critiques of Work
An online survey about emojis for text feedback on a short story or design. You categorize emojis for this task, write a critique with emojis, and then answer a survey for an Amazon gift card.
Can read and write English
Understanding the Relationship Between Discrimination and Sickle Cell Pain
This is a survey and interview study recruiting patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). Participants will answer questionnaires and complete a remote interview about health care experiences, pain, and discrimination. Natural language processing of interview transcripts will be used to quantify linguistic features indicative of subjective associations between individual experiences of racial discrimination and sickle cell pain.
Participants will be asked to fill out questionnaires and answer questions during an interview.
$50
18 years or older
Does not have a confirmed diagnosis of Sickle Cell Disease
Unable or unwilling to participate in the interview or to be recorded
Not Fluent in the English langauge
Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Disease (MCD)
The primary objective of this protocol, Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Disease (MCD) is to collect biological specimens and data from patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) to study the mechanisms that contribute to cardiovascular dysfunction and disease.
If you decide to participate in this study, you will be asked to provide a blood sample and possibly additional optional samples, either immediately or later. Additional samples may include saliva, cheek swab, urine, waste tissue or nasal swabs. You will decide whether you are willing to provide these other samples. Clinical data will be included in the dataset along with your sample.
children less than 18 years with or without cardiovascular disease
Adult participants who are unable to provide a biologic sample
Examining executive functioning deficits, affective deficits, and social functioning to better understand disruptive behaviors and callous-unemotional traits
This research seeks to better understand functioning in children who differ in symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), conduct problems (CP), and callous-unemotional (CU) traits, ages 6 - 13. Specifically, this research is being done to find out how these different types of behaviors impact cognitive skills (like attention, impulsivity, working memory, emotion identification) and social functioning to help inform future treatment with these children.
Estimated IQ of 80 or above
Willing and able to discontinue psychoactive medication treatment for the experiemental session, if relevant
Caregiver and child must be fluent in written and spoken English
Psychiatric symptoms requiring urgent treatment, such as mania or suicidal ideation/homicidal ideation
Unable to be tested off medication
Physical disabilities that are incompatible with completing laboratory tasks such as hearing or speech impairments, or visual impairments that cannot be corrected with visual aids
Challenging Veteran Stereotypes: An Investigation Around Veteran Status and Its Influence on Aggression, Ostracism, Stress, and Counterproductive Work Behaviors
The purpose of this study is to better understand how civilian stereotypes about veterans impact veterans' feelings about themselves and others, and how that influences veteran behavior in the workplace.
Age 18 or older
Under age 18
Storytelling on Snapchat
This study will examine via ethnographic observation the Story feature on social media. Participants will be asked to provide their Snapchat or Instagram username and must be willing to let the researcher observe the Stories that they post. The primary aims are to illuminate how and why people are using the Story feature on social media, and to analyze how this feature is changing how we relate to and understand the world around us.
At least 18 years old
Non users of social media
Transient Receptor Potential Channels in Human Skin
Menthol, capsaicin, and camphor are active ingredients often found in over-the-counter pain relief creams and gels. These ingredients typically work by interacting with certain receptors in the skin that are sensitive to temperature changes. There is limited information on how combining menthol with other substances that target similar receptors affects the body. These naturally occurring substances found in plants can widen small blood vessels in the skin through specific processes controlled by nerves in the skin. This study aims to understand how menthol, camphor, and capsaicin individually and together affect sensory function and blood flow in the skin. Additionally, as people age, their skin's nerve and blood vessel function tends to decrease. The study also seeks to explore how aging impacts the effects of these substances on sensory perception and how nerves and blood vessels work together in the skin.
There will be a screening visit and then 6 experiment visits where different topical analgesics will be applied to the forearm skin. We will measure skin blood flow.
240
tobacco use
sensitivity to menthol, camphor or capsiacin
pregnancy
breastfeeding
Infection threat and social decision-making using fMRI
The purpose of this study is to test how social decisions are affected by possible risk of infection. We aim to examine the neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying how choices in a risky social decision-making situation can be influenced by viewing images of infection threat (e.g., person with runny nose) vs. images of neutral scenes or other threatening scenes.
Participants will come to the research site for a one-time visit. They will complete brief questionnaires, followed by playing a social decision-making game while undergoing fMRI scanning.
$35.42
English speaking
Does not suffer from claustrophobia
Does not have contraindications to MRI scanning
Does not weigh more than 300 pounds
Cannot speak English
Suffers from claustrophobia
Has contraindications to MRI scanning
Weighs more than 300 pounds
NMTRC006B: An Intermediate Expanded Use Trial of DFMO(eflornithine HCl)
This research study is to provide expanded access to a new investigational drug DFMO (difluoromethylornithine) for patients with neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, and certain rare tumors that have no other curative options. DFMO is an oral drug that inhibits a certain enzyme (protein) in blood which is associated with a bad outcome in neuroblastoma cases. Cancer cells have pathways that drive the cancer to grow and DFMO targets the specific pathway of this enzyme to turn these cells off.
If you are enrolled on this study, DFMO will be started in clinic on Day 1. After this first day you will be seen in clinic approximately once every 30 days for the first 6 months of study and once every 90 days for the last 18 months of study. These visits will last about 2 hours, and involve a physical exam, blood tests, and other testing.
Not eligible for DFMO studies NMTRC014, BCC015, or BCC016
HEALEY ALS Platform Trial - Master Protocol
The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial is a perpetual multi-center, multi-regimen clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational products for the treatment of ALS. The trial is designed as a perpetual platform trial. This means that there is a single Master Protocol dictating the conduct of the trial. The Master Protocol describes the overall framework of the platform trial, including the target population, inclusion and exclusion criteria, randomization scheme, study endpoints, schedule of assessments, trial design, the mechanism for adding and removing interventions, and the statistical methodology and recommended statistical methods for evaluating interventions.
The HEALEY ALS Platform Trial is a research trial that tests the safety and effectiveness of multiple treatments in ALS. A regimen is a specific course of treatment, each with a different study drug.The following things will happen in this research study: Blood and urine sample collection; Completion of questionnaires; Physical and neurological exams; Vital signs, current and historical review of medical information about general health and medication use review; Muscle strength testing; Measurement of the electrical activity of the heart with an electrocardiogram (ECG); and Measurement of respiratory (breathing) function.Participants will also take either the study drug, or placebo, according to the study schedule
Slow vital capacity (SVC) at least 50% predicted
Time since onset of weakness due to ALS within 36 months
Able to swallow pills and liquids
Clinically significant unstable medical condition (other than ALS) that would pose a risk to you
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trazodone Effects on Sleep and Blood Pressure in Insomnia Phenotypes Based on Objective Sleep Duration: A Sequential Cohort/Randomized Controlled Trial
This study will examine whether patients who have insomnia with different sleep characteristics demonstrate a differential response to two common insomnia treatments, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and trazodone. All participants will complete a trial of CBT-I, followed by a medication trial in some participants. Participants will be evaluated with structured interviews; self-report questionnaires; in lab sleep recording; activity monitoring; saliva, blood, & urine collection for routine clinical measures; blood pressure monitoring and an EKG. All outcomes will be assessed again following the end of treatment.
Study involvement is 9-12 monthsPhone Screen to determine basic eligibility.There are 5-6 in person visits (first is consent/screening visit)3-4 of the in person visits are overnight visits to the sleep labUp to 18 other visits for treatment may be done in person or by video conference.Data is collected at home for 6-8 weeks during the 12 month period (activity monitor & blood pressure)Online self-completed surveys & structured interviews are required.A single blood sample and saliva samples will be collectedPregnancy Test, 12-Lead EKG, Medication may need to be taken in addition to the CBT-I Sessions
$465.00
Elevated or High Blood Pressure with or without treatment
Body Mass Index <40
Unstable Medical Condition
Severe Sleep Apnea
Substance Abuse
Severe Mental Illness (ie, psychosis)
Advising between middle-aged adults and their parents
This study utilizes interview methods to examine factors that influence the exchange of advice and outcomes of advising between adults aged 40+ and their parents aged 65+.
Participate in a single in-person or Zoom interview of 60-90 minutes focused on the exchange of advice between themselves and their parent or adult child.
50.00
Exchanges advice with parent or adult child
Both parent and child agree to participate
Mental and physical ability to participate in interview
English-speaking
No exchange of advice between parent and child
Parent or adult child does not agree to participate
Lacking mental or physical ability to participate in interview
Non-English-speaking
Singlehood in the Emerging Adult Years: The use of Technology to Communicate
The goal of this study is to understand the use of dating apps in emerging adults (ages 18-29 years old). Using an online survey, participants will be asked a series of questions about their well-being, romantic relationship history, and about their use of dating apps.
You will be asked to take a brief, 15-25 minute online survey, and you may be asked to upload a few screenshots from your phone.
2.Must be fluent in English
3.Reside in the US
4.Must self-identify as single (romantic relationship status) at the time of participation
5.Must own and use an IPHONE
2.Children under age 18
3.Those who do not have an IPHONE
4.Not fluent in English
5.Do not self-identify as single at the time of participation (romantic relationship status)
Nocturnal stress: Psychophysiological mechanisms
This study will examine the relationships among time-of-day, light exposure, and stress markers. Physiological measures of stress will be assessed both in the laboratory using a gold-standard emotion induction task.
This is a week-long study consisting of two in-person visits and five out-of-lab days. During the in-person visits, you will be connected to equipment that measures your physiological data and participate in a task with different sounds. During the out-of-lab days, you will wear a sensor that will collect your physiological data and answer questionnaires.
$135
Not a regular (>1x day) user of nicotine products
Willing to participate in 2 in-lab sessions and 5 out-of-lab days of wearing a sensor
Willing to have gender-matched lab member attach electrodes to the participant while their shirt is removed
Willing to abstain from alcohol use for 24 hours, caffeine consumption for 6 hours, eating for 2 hours, and vigorous exercise for 2 hours prior to the study session
Not willing to have gender-matched lab member attach electrodes to the participant while their shirt is removed
Not willing/able to wear biosensor at home for 5 consecutive days
Diagnosis of a cardiovascular, metabolic, and/or neurological condition
Regular (>1x day) user of nicotine products
Physical Therapists Role in Promoting Physical Activity for People with Chronic Physical Disabilities
We plan to conduct a qualitative study exploring perspectives of physical therapists and people with disability regarding physical activity promotion
Fluent in english
Individual with a physical disability (eg. limb amputation, spinal cord injury, spinabifida, cerebralpalsy, arthritis, motor impairment)
Has participated in physical therapy in the last year
Does not speak fluent english
does not have a physical disability
Has not participated in physical activity in the last year
Memory and Aging Study
This research is being done to find out more about changes in the brain as we age and to determine if MRI, genetic (DNA) variations, and neuropsychological tests can be used to evaluate memory loss and cognitive impairment.
Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impariment
Normal Controls-Cognitively normal functioning
Psychiatric disorder (e.g., bi-polar, schizophrenia, etc.)
History of chemotherapy
Presence of a cold or viral infection
Presence of a pacemaker, aneurysm clips, or any metal in body
Penn State Exercising Women's Study
This study aims to assess energy status in young sedentary and exercising women as it is related to menstrual status, bone health, psychological health, sleep variables, and cardiovascular function.
There will be three to four visits to the laboratory. Procedures include questionnaires, a blood draw, providing a hair sample, providing two saliva samples, cardiovascular measurements, and bone scans, as well as resting metabolic rate, cognitive, aerobic fitness, and countermovement jump testing. Participants will be asked to collect urine samples throughout one menstrual cycle, or 28 days for amenorrheic females. Exercise and physical activity will be recorded and monitored for seven days via logs and wearables. Food intake will be recorded for three days. Collegiate athletes will be tested twice; in-season and off-season.
Age 18-30 years
Body Mass Index between 16-29.9 kg/m2
For sedentary participants: less than 2 hours of purposeful exercise per week and regular menstrual cycles for the last 6 months (i.e. cycles between 26 and 35 days in length)
For exercising participants: exercise at least 2 hours per week AND/OR participate in collegiate athletics. Exercising participants can have regular or irregular menstrual cycles for the last 6 months.
Currently a smoker or history of regular smoking
Taking any hormonal medication in the past six months, other than oral contraceptives
Serious or chronic health condition (including heart condition, thyroid illness, metabolic disease)
Hysterectomy or oophorectomy
Intraparticipant speaking rate differences within and across sessions
The purpose of this study is to assess if healthy adults speak at a consistent speaking rate when asked to read a standard passage or answer an open ended prompt.
There will be 2 visits that each take approximately 20 minutes. We will meet in person or via Zoom. At each visit you will be asked to read three paragraphs and answer some open ended questions/prompts.
English-speaking
Hearing and cognition within functional limits to complete speaking tasks
History of neurologic disease, injury, or event including traumatic brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, etc.
PSCI 22-127 NRG-BN012: A RANDOMIZED PHASE III TRIAL OF PRE-OPERATIVE COMPARED TO POST-OPERATIVE STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH RESECTABLE BRAIN METASTASES
Individuals with cancer that has spread to their brain who have 1-4 lesions, or breast cancer history and may or may not have treatment and are within 8 weeks of surgery, will be randomized to either surgery first followed by radiation or radiation first followed by surgery.
Subjects are expected to come to all Radiation/Gamma Knife appointments and continue onto surgery/resection.
Known active or history of invasive non-CNSprimary cancer based on documented pathologic diagnosis within the past 3 years.
All brain metastases must be located ≥ 5 mm from the optic chiasm and outside the brainstem.
Lesions chosen for surgical therapy must be deemed appropriate targets for safe, gross total resection by the treating surgeon
Age ≥ 18
Evidence of leptomeningeal disease
Primary histology of germ cell tumor, small cell carcinoma or lymphoma
Inability to undergo MRI with contrast.
More than one brain metastasis planned for resection
A Pre-Post Study of the Use of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Unit in the Management of Endometriosis Pain
The purpose of this study is see if Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator (TENS) units help decrease endometriosis flare pain. Participants will complete surveys, record pain, medication use and bleeding in an online diary during endometriosis flare ups for 3 months without using the TENS unit. After the first 3 month period of time, a TENS unit will be given to participants to wear and again, record pain, medication use and bleeding in the online diary during endometriosis flare ups for and additional 3 months while using the TENS unit.
There will be one in person enrollment visit, involving being consented and completion of 2 surveys. The first 3 months, the "baseline period" will include filling out pain scores online on days of endometriosis flare without TENS unit use. The next 3 months, the "treatment period" will include filling out pain scores online on days of endometriosis flare with TENS unit. At end of study completion of 2 surveys.
Surgical diagnosis of endometriosis, visualized and/or pathology confirmed
Having monthly endometriosis pain flares on average
Has never used a TENS unit before for endometriosis pain flares
Must be greater than 12 weeks post-op for abdominal/pelvic surgery
Has a cardiac arrhythmia
Has open skin sores over area of TENS placement
Not planning to have surgery or hormonal medication changes during the study
Pregnant
Effects of antibiotic use on fecal microbiome and resistome
This study will investigate the changes in the human fecal microbiomes and resistomes in response to antibiotic treatment.
English speaking/reading
Books a medical appointment for upper respiratory tract infection
Patient participated in STUDY00012891 previously
Reason for medical visit is not upper respiratory tract infection
Patient is pregnant
Patient has a medical history that includes diagnosis of any intestinal related disease
Online Investigation of Spoken Language Processes
This online study aims to examine whether factors like language history and visual information influence spoken language processes in typical listening environments.
Between 18 and 65 years of age
The effect of video job description on recruitment: A comprehensive study
The purpose of this study is to see how online job advertisements can influence people to apply for jobs. Participants will see job advertisements and answer questions regarding each job ad.
Knowing English
Being interested to pursue employment in one of these three categories of jobs: academic (lecturer, professor), computer-related (programmer, cyber-security, etc.), or service-based (laborer, operator, technician, etc.)
Younger than 18 years of age.
A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Fazirsiran in the Treatment of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency–Associated Liver Disease With METAVIR Stage F2 to F4 Fibrosis
This research study of fazirsiran (FAZ-i-sir-an; also called TAK-999 or the “study drug”) because you have alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency-associated liver disease (AATD LD) with METAVIR stage F2 to F4 fibrosis (METAVIR is a system used to score the amount of inflammation and fibrosis seen in a liver biopsy).In AATD, abnormal (Z-AAT) proteins build up in liver cells, leading to varying amounts of liver problems. The goal of treatment with fazirsiran is to prevent and improve the build up of these abnormal proteins that cause liver injury and fibrosis
-The total amount of time you may be involved in the study is about 4 ½ years (230 weeks).-Screening Period of up to 70 days.-Treatment Period of 196 weeks or about 4 years. During the study, you will get the study drug or placebo at the study site.-Follow-up Period of 6 months. You will have visits 6, 12, and 24 weeks after your last injection of the study drug or placebo.-You will have lung function tests (PFT and DLCO) to check how your lungs are workingAt every visit during the treatment period you will have:-Your vital signs will be measured, this includes your heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, temperature, and amount of oxygen in your blood.-You will have a brief physical exam.-Your weight will be measured.-You will have an ECG.-Collect lab samplesDuring specific study visits during the treatment period the following tests will be performed:-An abdominal ultrasound-FibroScan-CT scansYou will complete questionnaires.
The participant must use highly effective contraception
The participant must have suitable vein access for blood sampling
Participant agrees not to smoke at any time during the study.
The participant must have a diagnosis of the PiZZ genotype AATD
The participant has a recent lower respiratory tract infection, such as pneumonia, within the last 6 months before screening.
The participant is expected to have severe and unavoidable high-level exposure to inhaled pulmonary toxins during the study such as may occur with occupational exposure to mineral dusts or metals.
The participant has a history of malignancy within the last 5 years
The participant has evidence of other forms of chronic liver diseases
Endometriosis and microvascular dysfunction 3
Endometriosis, is a disorder that occurs in women, is when tissue that should be normally found inside the womb is also found in sites outside of the womb. Endometriosis is a disorder that is associated with systemic inflammation. This disorder impairs the function of the endothelium, the cells that line the body’s blood vessels (endothelium). The endothelium helps to control blood flow in healthy vessels. Women with endometriosis not only have an increased risk for high blood pressure and high cholesterol, they also have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. With this study, we will learn how systemic inflammation in endometriosis impairs the lining of blood vessels and increases the risk for cardiovascular disease.We will use a short term intervention with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory to examine how inflammation impact endothelial function in women with endometriosis
There will be 4 in person visits, at all visits blood will be drawn. Two of the visits will be experimental visits where we will measure skin blood flow and blood flow in the brachial artery. Participants will be required to take a placebo or the drug salsalate for 4 days prior to each experimental visit.
$450
With and without Endometriosis
Pregnant and/or breastfeeding
Taking blood pressure medication
Known allergy to Salsalate