Perceived social support has been hypothesized to protect against the pathogenic effects of stress. How such protection might be conferred, however, is not well understood. Using a sample of 404 healthy adults, we examined the roles of perceived social support and received hugs in buffering against interpersonal stress-induced susceptibility to infectious disease. Perceived support was assessed by...
Data were collected from 42 researchers in the International Association for Dental Research examining the respondents' attitudes towards data sharing, concerns related to data sharing, experiences sharing data through repositories and by request, data management practices, and use of new data analysis tools. The responses were unanimously positive towards the idea of data sharing, but included many...
This data package contains SPSS data and codebooks containing participant demographic information for several personality studies conducted by Paul Pilkonis 1990-2017. Associated studies: Validity in the Diagnosis of Personality Disorders ("Validity") Screening for Personality Disorders ("Screening") Interpersonal Functioning in Borderline Personality ("Interpersonal Functioning") Interpersonal...
University of Pittsburgh librarians at the Health Sciences Library System and the University Library System conducted an 18-question Qualtrics survey in 2017 to learn what roles other academic and health sciences libraries are playing at their institutions in providing services and support to their users regarding electronic lab notebooks (ELNs). The PDF contains the survey questions, which are a mix...
The Molecular Biology Information Service (MBIS) of the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) at the University of Pittsburgh conducted a 33-question Qualtrics survey in early 2018 to evaluate the effectiveness of services provided by the MBIS. The CSV file contains de-identifed survey responses--identifying information for Q6.7 was redacted. Also included is a PDF of the Qualtrics survey response...
The MIDAS Online Portal for COVID-19 Modeling Research is a clearinghouse for sharing datasets, published estimates on epidemiological characteristics (both peer-reviewed and non-), and software for dashboard monitoring, data processing, modeling, and visualization related to the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic (formerly referred to as 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease). Information in the portal...
Librarians at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System conducted a 25-question online survey of the data management practices of researchers within the six schools of the health sciences (School of Medicine, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, and School of Dental Medicine). The survey was administered...
This dataset was generated from a survey of 720 participants (366 females, 354 males) recruited from Qualtrics in December of 2017 when the #MeToo movement was still at its peak. The survey examined people's reactions to apologies offered by prominent public figures in response to allegations of sexual misconduct (ranging from sexual harassment to rape) with a focus on whether their implicit theories...
This dataset was generated from a survey that assessed participants’ knowledge, perceived risk, perceived seriousness, anxiety, adoption of prevention behaviors and source of information related to COVID-19. The survey was conducted anonymously among a non-random sample of 464 Connecticut residents in the early stage of social distancing and shutdown from March 23 to March 29, 2020. Participants...
With an emphasis on reaching historically underrepresented populations, the datasets from the All of Us Research Program include: Electronic health records (OMOP CDM used to standardize all EHR data) Biosamples (blood, urine, and saliva) Mobile health data (from wearable devices that may track biometric data like heart rate and blood pressure) Physical measurements (height, weight, BMI,...