Chronic Pain and Resilience: How Do We Harness the Power of Joy, Optimism and Love?

Join the UNC School of Medicine Thurston Arthritis Research Center for a UNC Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR) Speaker Series seminar featuring Afton Hassett, PsyD. Hassett is the Director of Pain and Opioid Research at the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

This talk will review the role of thoughts and emotions in the neurobiology of chronic pain and explore how more adaptive thoughts, positive emotions and healthy relationships decrease the experience of pain and lead to a more rewarding life.

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Engagement in Research Nuts & Bolts: Specific Approaches for Engaging Patient & Community Partners in Research

There is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to engaging patient, community, or other partners in your research. Rather, there are a variety of engagement methods to suit your study's needs, your research team's capacity, and your partners' interests.

This online training will describe three common approaches for working with patient, community, and other partners in your research: 1) consultative community feedback sessions; 2) advisory boards; and 3) sustained collaboration with partners as members of the research team.

The session will cover considerations for choosing these specific engagement methods, as well as concrete processes and steps for implementing each approach. Participation in our Engagement in Research 101 training is not required to attend this session; however, some knowledge of engagement, whether from prior training(s) or personal experience, may foster deeper understanding of the material in this session.

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Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research is a multi-part online training series. You may register for the entire series OR any single training session.

Part 1 will focus on the basics of research engagement, providing an overview of patient and community engagement and its benefits, debunking common myths and misconceptions, and providing considerations and next steps for incorporating engagement approaches into your research.

Part 2 will cover specific engagement methods, including consultative community feedback sessions, advisory boards, and working with patient and community partners as members of a research team.

Part 3 will focus on the nuances of building and maintaining partnerships, outlining best practices for developing and strengthening mutually beneficial partnerships and discussing common partnership challenges and solutions.

Those who are in the process of developing, implementing, or revising a patient and/or community engagement plan for an active or upcoming project may be interested in attending our Engagement in Research Interactive Workshop, during which participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and seek feedback on their engagement plans in a small group setting.

This training series was developed collaboratively with patient, community, and researcher partners and is co-sponsored by the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and NC TraCS Institute.

The Office of Research Technologies and Office of Sponsored Programs are coordinating core tours of some of UNC's fantastic core facilities during University Research Week. Meet the core directors and staff, learn about new and upcoming events, view instrumentation, and imagine how collaboration with UNC cores can expand your science! No registration necessary.

Intermediate Qualtrics

This course will cover topics beyond the scope of the Introduction to Qualtrics short course. Take a deeper dive into “Survey Flow” features, including routing with branches, embedded data, customizing the “End of Survey” experience, and randomization. Explore embedded data, and several ways to import or set data in your survey through contact list fields, anonymous URLs, and conditions within your survey. Additional topics will include piping, authentication, managing results, re-coding values, exporting and importing data, and creating reports.

This is a hands-on course. Completion of Introduction to Qualtrics or understanding basic Qualtrics principles prior to this course is required. All participants are required to create a Qualtrics account before the course.

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PLEASE NOTE: This class will be covered over two afternoons: 10/23/2023 from 2pm - 4pm AND 10/25/2023 from 3pm - 5pm

Due to increasing survey costs and declining response rates, probability panels have become a major research vehicle for private, foundational, non-profit, academic, and even federally sponsored surveys. Panels are a unique type of survey research platform: Unlike cross-sectional surveys, panels of course recruit respondents specifically for future participation in surveys. In return, panelists are financially compensated, typically to join the panel in the first place, and then secondarily for each survey in which they participate.

These differences to cross-sectional surveys have a range of potential implications. How does the method and effort of recruiting impact who joins, and as a consequence what is best practice? What do panels do to retain panelists over time and which strategies are more successful than others? How much of a concern is panel conditioning, that is, the impact of persons repetitively taking surveys over time, and what are the implications for how frequently panelists should take surveys? How do panels, which exclusively request that panelists take surveys on the Internet, deal with people who do not have or are not comfortable using the Internet? What is the impact of panelist attrition and what are best efforts to replenish retired panelists? How successful are panels are executing true longitudinal surveys? And, given the additional layers of complexity, how are panel surveys properly weighted and estimated?

This short course is designed to provide a guide for consumers of probability-based panels to understand what they are working with: What questions to ask and what features to understand about probability panels in evaluating their use for data collections, and how to best use probability-based panel data. Additionally, it will serve as an exploration of best practices for practitioners: Raising issues of total survey error sources, data quality, costs, and operational logistics.

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Community Forum: Co-Creating Community-Centered Emergency Action Plans

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is hosting community forums where community leaders, organizations and partners will gather to share and respond to resources and ideas that mitigate the spread of emerging infections and address social determinants of health. These forums will facilitate discussion to create and implement action plans in preparation for pandemic/emergent pathogens.

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