Sunny Ho‐Wan Chan

ORCID: 0000-0001-5136-8698
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Research Areas
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Biofield Effects and Biophysics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders

University of the West of England
2022-2025

Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2018-2022

Creative Research Enterprises (United States)
2021

St Thomas' Hospital
2018

King's College London
2018

University of British Columbia
2018

University of Toronto
2018

The University of Adelaide
2018

South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
2018

Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
2018

In this study, we investigated the effects of a mindfulness-based family psychoeducation (MBFPE) program on mental-health outcomes both caregivers and young adults with first-episode psychosis an onset in past three years through multi-site randomized controlled trial. We also studied potential mediating interpersonal mindfulness, expressed emotions, non-attachment program.We randomly assigned 65 to MBFPE (n = 33) or ordinary (FPE) 32); among them, 18 recovery participated evaluation...

10.3390/ijerph20021018 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2023-01-05
Anouk Pels Ben W. Mol Joel Singer Terry Lee Peter von Dadelszen and 95 more Wessel Ganzevoort Elizabeth Asztalos Laura A. Magee Amiram Gafni Andrée Gruslin Michael Helewa Eileen K. Hutton Shoo Lee Alexander G. Logan Jennifer Menzies Jean‐Marie Moutquin Kellie E. Murphy Évelyne Rey Sue Ross Johanna Sanchez Jim Thornton Ross Welch Trinh Hoac Joanne Kirton Katherine Trigiani Ainy Zahid Michael B. Bracken Patricia Crowley Lelia Duley Richard A. Ehrenkranz Kevin E. Thorpe Sunny Ho‐Wan Chan Michael Shi Shelley Yu Raquel de Lourdes Martin M. Bassi Mirta Clara Caruso Valeria Lagunas Fernando Vera Maria Mohedano de Duhalde Alicia Beatriz Roque Patricia Puerta Esteban Marcos Duhalde Viviana Dip Jesus Daniel Aguirre Elba Mirta Morales Griselda Itati Abreo Teresa De Sagastizabal Carolina Cadavid Gómez Nadia Rizzi Carlos Arias R Bruno Kassam Mahomed Alison Drew Ann Green Jane V. Hoare Bill Hague Suzette Coat Caroline A Crowther Peter Müller Sophie Trenowden Barry N J Walters Claire Parker Dorothy Graham Craig E. Pennell Eileen Sung Angela Makris Gaksoo Lee Charlene Thornton Annemarie Hennessy Louise Farrell Nelson Sass Henri Augusto Korkes Dayana Couto Ferreira Renato Augusto Moreira de Sá Monique Schmidt Marques Abreu Rita Guérios Bornia Nancy Ribeiro da Silva Fernanda Cardoso Caio Coelho Marques Jorge Hornos Ricardo Leal Davdt Letícia Germany Paula Pedro Luis Zanella G Inglis Ruth Dillon Ashley Docherty Anna Hutfield Keith Still Sayrin Lalji Tamara Van Tent Chris Hotz Tracy Messmer Joel G. Ray Howard Berger Leanne De Souza Andrea Lausman Tatiana Freire-Lizama Kate Besel Paul Gibson

For hypertensive women in CHIPS (Control of Hypertension Pregnancy Study), we assessed whether the maternal benefits tight control could be achieved, while minimizing any potentially negative effect on fetal growth, by delaying initiation antihypertensive therapy until later pregnancy. 981 with nonsevere, chronic or gestational hypertension randomized to less-tight (target diastolic blood pressure, 100 mm Hg), (target, 85 Hg) control, used mixed-effects logistic regression examine (versus...

10.1161/hypertensionaha.117.10689 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Hypertension 2018-04-23

'TRIP' (Transforming Relapse and Instilling Prosperity) is a ward-based illness management programme that aims to decrease treatment non-compliance relapse rate by improving the insight health of acute psychiatric patients with schizophrenia. Eighty-one stable male schizophrenia were randomized receive TRIP (n = 44) or comparison group traditional ward occupational therapy (WOT) 37). Participants' insights assessed Unawareness Mental Disorder Scale Hong Kong version Short Form-36 (SF-36)...

10.1002/oti.226 article EN Occupational Therapy International 2007-03-19

Abstract Background The goal of this study was to investigate treatment outcome and related intervention processes mindfulness-based cognitive therapy versus health qigong-based waitlist control among individuals with mood disorders. Methods A total 187 disorders were randomized allocated into therapy, or groups. All participants assessed at three time points regard depressive anxiety symptoms, physical mental status, perceived stress, sleep quality, self-efficacy. Linear mixed models...

10.1186/s12888-020-02994-2 article EN cc-by BMC Psychiatry 2020-12-01

The potential mechanism by which rumination influences social anxiety through cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance proposed the Acceptance Commitment Therapy model has not been well-documented. This study, therefore, aimed to examine sequential multiple mediation of two processes.A cross-sectional survey was conducted.A total 233 Chinese adolescents (42.06% girls) completed a set printed self-report questionnaires measuring rumination, fusion, avoidance, anxiety. SPSS macro PROCESS...

10.1080/10615806.2021.1955864 article EN Anxiety Stress & Coping 2021-07-21

Background: The present study aimed to examine age differences in the relationship between trajectories of loneliness and physical frailty among Chinese older adults. Methods: A total 4618 participants aged ≥60 years old were taken from pooled data created 2011−2015 China Health Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Loneliness was assessed by a single question Centre for Epidemiological Studies scale, whereas (PF) examined phenotype scale. We characterized PF using transition types changes...

10.3390/ijerph19095105 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022-04-22

With the advent of recovery movement in mental health, a humanistic paradigm shift has occurred, placing focus on personal (i.e., hope, identity, and life meaning) instead functional or clinical only symptom reduction increases physical function). Along journey recovery, people with bipolar disorder (BD) struggle to cope recurring mood fluctuations between depression mania. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have potential result improvements outcomes. Thus, this protocol will evaluate...

10.1186/s12888-019-2242-0 article EN cc-by BMC Psychiatry 2019-08-22

This study aimed to investigate clinical effectiveness of a structured eight-week mindfulness-based music therapy (MBMT) program on improving mood regulation in older women with blindness. investigation compared MBMT group mindfulness intervention (MI) and control group.Ninety-two females blindness from residential setting Hong Kong were recruited randomly allocated (n = 31), MI 30), or 31) group. Psychological measurements regarding general states (namely, Difficulties Emotion Regulation...

10.1016/j.imr.2023.100993 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Integrative Medicine Research 2023-08-26

Abstract Research indicated that life satisfaction and a positive self-perception of aging are vital during the process which contribute significantly to successful aging. Discovering underlying determinants should provide novel insight into mechanism involved in achieving A representative random sample 2161 Chinese older people aged 60 years or above was surveyed by face-to-face interview. Sociodemographic factors were measured age educational level. Physical functioning identified terms...

10.1093/geroni/igz038.531 article EN cc-by Innovation in Aging 2019-11-01
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