| Multifunctional Porous Soft Materials-Enabled Six-Lead Wearable Heart Monitors with Enhanced User-Friendliness and Biocompatibility and Minimized Motion Artifacts | We plan to recruit healthy volunteers aged between 19 and 35 without any restrictions based on gender, race, or ethnicity. We will exclude children, pregnant women, prisoners, and patients diagnosed with heart disease symptoms. This excludes participants with a major illness history and who have recently experienced any cardiac-related diseases. |
| Efficacy of the Improving Participation after Stroke Self-Management-Rehabilitation (IPASSR) program in sub-acute stroke | 45-85 years of age
<6 months post-stroke
able to read, write, and speak English |
| Effects of Paced Breathing and Social Evaluation on Cognitive Flexibility | 1. aged 18-40 or 60+ years old
2. No history of significant head injury or brain dysfunction
3. No current practice of meditation or other types of breathing techniques
4. Unable to comply with 12-hour caffeine, alcohol and intense exercise abstention before the study |
| Developing and Testing Methods for Improving Contrast Enhanced MRI | Inclusion Criteria: Applies to all participants
• Age 18 and older
• Healthy subjects and patients with specific conditions or diseases including but not limited to heart disease, lung disease and brain disease. These patients will be used to test MRI methods to detect these diseases. |
| Growth hormone resistance of beta-cells in women with gestational diabetes mellitus and people with a family history of type 2 diabetes (GHRB) | Without current pre-diabetes or diabetes, not pregnant/breastfeeding, no major medical concern, stable weight (no loss or gain in last 3 months)
Group-specific criteria:
-Gestational diabetes group- age 18-45 years old, female with a full term pregnancy with one baby in the last 5 years, diagnosed with gestational diabetes or NOT diagnosed with gestational diabetes; body mass index (BMI) 18.5-44.9.
-Family history of type 2 diabetes group- age 18-59 years old, male or female, a first degree relative (ex: mother, father, sibling) diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or NOT diagnosed with type 2 diabetes; BMI 30.0-44.9. |
| Adolescents' Friendships and Well-Being | We are looking for youth currently in high school (9th-12th grade) or starting high school in the fall. To be eligible for the study, adolescents must participate with a close friend. In addition, adolescents participating in the text messaging component of the study must own a smartphone and use it to communicate with the participating friend. Participants must be fluent in English and communicate in English with their friend. |
| Immune mechanisms shaping airborne influenza transmission | Individuals who are:
• At least 18years old and older;
• Self-reported Influenza-like-illness (ILI) symptoms within five days of enrollment or tested Influenza or COVID-19 positive within five days of symptom onset for the blood and swab sampling
Self-reported Influenza-like-illness (ILI) symptoms within three days of enrollment or tested Influenza or COVID-19 positive within three days of symptom onset for the breath test
• Willing to provide a nasal swab at enrollment only for eligibility for the blood sampling part of the study
• English speaking
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| Mental Processes for Rating Pain Intensity | General inclusion criteria: (1) 18 years old or older; (2) visited a HCP for treatment of a painful musculoskeletal condition within previous year; (3) has usually felt, at least, "mild" musculoskeletal pain on most days of the last 3 months in multiple locations; and (4) has felt variable musculoskeletal pain intensity during the last 3 months.
General exclusion criteria: (1) past or current employment as a licensed healthcare provider; (2) diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia; (3) has a battery-powered implant in the neck, chest, abdomen, or spine (e.g., pacemaker); (4) diagnosed with a neurological condition that causes uncontrolled movement (e.g., Parkinsonism, epilepsy, etc.); (5) smokes cigarettes or vapes; (6) has abused substances during the last week; or (7) allergic to skin adhesives. |
| Characterizing Information Needs and Design Requirements to Develop a Digital Tool that Provides Evidence-based Information about Opioid User Disorder Treatment for Pregnant Information Seekers | A nurse practitioner, physician, or physician assistant with experience treating opioid use disorder OR a person who has 1) previously been pregnant and is not currently pregnant and 2) previously experienced an opioid use disorder. Past pregnancy and opioid use disorder need not have occurred at the same time. |
| Seeking adults aged 21-25 who drink alcohol for EEG study on reward learning | Individuals age 21-25 who drank alcohol at least two days in the past month may be eligible. |
| Cerebral Lactate Uptake and Transport in Obese and Non-Obese Individuals | All subjects will report being healthy adult men and women, 18-45 years of age, BMI 18-40 kg/m2, not pregnant, not breastfeeding, and non-nicotine users. Women must be premenopausal. Subjects can not exercise more than 3 days/wk. |
| Integration of Advanced Materials and Wearable Devices for Human Physiological Signal Monitoring | We plan to recruit healthy volunteers aged between 19 and 65. The participants had no medical or surgical problems history. The process without any restrictions based on gender, race, or ethnicity. |
| A Research Study about Children's Storytelling | Participating children must be between ages 6-and-12 years old. Families must live in Missouri. Families should predominantly use English in the home. If participating remotely, children need to be able to work from a device with a larger screen and active webcam, like a tablet or laptop, to best complete the Fairy Tale Test. Children must not have a formal diagnosis of intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder. |
| Routine validation and reproducibility testing of laboratory assays and research techniques used for endocrine, cardiometabolic, and musculoskeletal disorder research (VALD) | Men and women ages 18-100 years of age healthy or affected by certain endocrine or metabolic disorders |
| Missouri Households and Family Research Participant Database | Subjects ages 18 and older within the State of Missouri. |
| Assessment of Dissolved Phase 129Xe as a Biomarker for Gas-Exchange and Vascular Function in Asthma
| Age 18-35 years old, or age 45 and older
Diagnosed with mild, moderate or severe asthma – or no history of lung disease (healthy controls)
Must be at their clinical baseline and be clinically stable
Capacity to give informed consent |
| Cue-topia: Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Cue Learning in Adults. | -Adults aged 18 to 65
-Reside in Boone or adjacent counties
-have normal or corrected-to-normal visual acuity, normal color vision, and no history of neurological problems |
| Workplace Ecological Mechanisms of Alcohol Risk | Age 18+, current desire to quit or cut down alcohol consumption OR having successfully done so in the past, working at least 20 hours per week |
| Behavioral–social rhythms and cardiovascular disease risk in couples with type 2 diabetes | Both partners must be between 45 and 64 years old, in a committed romantic relationship, and have lived together for at least one year. Both partners must be overweight or obese (based on height and weight), and at least one partner must have a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. |
| Effects of Grape Consumption on the Immune-Gut Axis in Obesity | Inclusion criteria include:
• Age: 18-60 years
• Weight status: obese (BMI: 30-45 kg/m2)
• Willingness to consume study foods
• Consistent diet and activity patterns for 4 weeks
• Weight stable (≤5 kg change over last 3 months)
• Not currently consuming an extremely healthy diet
• Non-smoker >1 year or more
• No allergies to study foods
• Not pregnant or lactating
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| Sips & Shapes 4 | Individuals ages 18-30 and who have consumed at least 5 drinks containing any kind of alcohol in their lifetime may be eligible. |
| Early Identification of the Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of Attachment on Children's Development | Parents (of 18 years or older) with infants at 4-9 months of age |
| The impacts of early life religious and rurality influences on LGBTQ+ individuals in mid-Missouri | Eligible individuals will be adults age 18-80+ who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community and who report upbringing in a religious and/or rural community. Participants will be recruited from Boone County and surrounding areas. |
| Adapting a Self-Report Bullying Victimization Measure for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disability | -Students with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (IDD), including Down’s Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
-Age Range: 11 to 22
-Has an IEP with special education services |
| Cross-cultural acceptability of interventions that may increase control over the end of life in patients with dementia | People with early dementia who have the capacity of providing their consent to participate in the study, are able to fill in a questionnaire, and have an interview (with some help, if needed). Participants decision making capacity will be evaluated prior to participation in research study: assessment will take about 10 minutes over the phone and will entail assessing the person with dementia's ability to consent (as stated in the Assessment Script. |
