A5031822034- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Bone and Joint Diseases
- Restless Legs Syndrome Research
- Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes
- Bone health and treatments
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Sleep and related disorders
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Osteomyelitis and Bone Disorders Research
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Dental Radiography and Imaging
- Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
University of Hong Kong
2019-2025
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2016-2025
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2025
Harvard University
2025
HKU-Pasteur Research Pole
2019-2022
Guy's Hospital
2013-2018
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
2017
King's College London
2017
Prince of Wales Hospital
2015
Queen Mary University of London
2008
<h3>Importance</h3> Clinical practice guidelines support exercise for patients with Parkinson disease (PD), but to our knowledge, no randomized clinical trials have tested whether yoga is superior conventional physical exercises stress and symptom management. <h3>Objective</h3> To compare the effects of a mindfulness program vs stretching resistance training (SRTE) on psychological distress, health, spiritual well-being, health-related quality life (HRQOL) in mild-to-moderate PD. <h3>Design,...
: Children are widely recognized as a vulnerable population during disasters and emergencies. The COVID-19 pandemic, like natural disaster, brought uncertainties instability to the economic development of society social distancing, which might lead child maltreatment. This study aims investigate whether job loss, income reduction parenting affect
Background and Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has led to disruptions in health care service delivery worldwide, inevitably affecting stroke survivors requiring ongoing rehabilitation chronic illness management. To date, no published research been found on caregiving during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed explore Hong Kong caregivers’ experiences midst of this difficult time. Methods: Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with 25 Chinese adult...
Patients with long-term neurological conditions, such as Parkinson's disease (PD), are particularly vulnerable to the public health measures taken combat COVID-19 pandemic. The inaccessibility of center-based rehabilitation further aggravated their motor dysfunctions well mental distress, leading exacerbation and non-motor symptoms, high healthcare utilization worsened health-related quality life (HRQOL).This study aimed evaluate feasibility, safety, preliminary effects mHealth-delivered...
Clinical practice guidelines support resilience training and exercise for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). This assessor-blinded, randomized clinical trial aimed to compare the effects of a modified mindfulness meditation program versus stretching resistance (SRTE) in mild-to-moderate PD. A total 126 potential participants were enrolled via convenience sampling, which 68 eligible 1:1 receive eight weekly 90-min sessions or SRTE. Compared SRTE group, generalized estimating equation...
Importance Older adults are particularly vulnerable to loneliness and its physical psychosocial sequelae, but scalable interventions lacking, especially during disasters such as pandemics. Objective To compare the effects of layperson-delivered, telephone-based behavioral activation mindfulness vs befriending on among at-risk older adults. Design, Setting, Participants This assessor-blinded, 3-arm randomized clinical trial screened Chinese through household visits community referrals from...
Psychological distress is prevalent among people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and aggravates their motor symptoms, thereby leading to increased disability, high healthcare costs, poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The under-recognition adverse effects the pharmacological management anxiety depression PD population are considerable. Thus, adopting a Complementary Alternative Management (CAM) approach address this problem important. Yoga, one most common “mind-body” CAM therapies,...
The COVID-19 pandemic itself and related public health measurements have had substantial impacts on individual social lives psychological mental health, all to the detriment of health-related quality life (HRQoL). There been extensive studies investigating people in different populations during pandemic. However, few explored impact its association with HRQoL. To fill this research gap provide further empirical evidence, study examined Hong Kong evaluated A total 500 participants were...
Background Unlike most virtual reality (VR) training programs that are targeted at homogenous populations, a set of VR games for rehabilitation purposes heterogeneous group users was developed. The covered physical training, cognitive (classification and orientation), community-living skills relaxing scenery experiences. Special considerations local older adults people with disabilities were made in terms hardware choice software design. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the...
Abstract Background Although several studies have reported positive effects of mind-body exercises on symptom management and health-related quality life (HRQOL) people living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), it is not known whether these are attributable to a change in anxiety depression. Purpose To compare the mindfulness yoga conventional stretching randomized controlled trial while examining potentially mediating Methods 138 adults PD were eight weekly (n = 71) or 67) sessions. Symptom...
Introduction: Clinical guidelines recommend a holistic approach to Parkinson’s disease (PD) care, yet randomized trials examining mindfulness-based interventions in this context are scarce. This study investigated the effects of two mindfulness practices – meditation and yoga on biopsychosocial outcomes PD patients, including anxiety symptoms, depressive motor/nonmotor health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL), mindfulness, stress inflammation biomarkers, compared usual care. Methods: 159...
ContextPatients with progressive neurologic diseases (PNDs) face a prolonged and fluctuating course of illness marked by increasing disability range nonmotor symptoms. However, the impacts symptoms unmet care needs remain underexplored. Palliative arise from multifaceted sufferings associated PNDs, encompassing not only physical pain but also psychological, social, spiritual distress. Despite recommendations for early palliative PNDs to address these multidimensional sufferings, access such...
Importance Multicomponent interventions for informal caregivers of people with dementia are urgently needed, but evidence regarding which components most effective is lacking. Objective To apply a multiphase optimization strategy to examine the effects 5 psychosocial an intervention designed support dementia. Design, Setting, and Participants In this assessor-blinded randomized clinical trial fractional factorial design, Chinese community-dwelling adults (aged ≥18 years) who were family...
High parenting stress is associated with diminished quality of life in parents and more problem behaviors autistic children. Mindfulness-based interventions have demonstrated efficacy mitigating stress. Psychological flexibility resilience been recognized as protective factors against psychological distress. However, the extent to which mediate effect mindfulness on among children remains unclear. This cross-sectional study examined mediating roles relationship between We recruited a...
Abstract Background Even though the negative impacts of nocturia on sleep quality and health-related life (HRQOL) have been documented in previous research, their interrelationship has poorly studied. This study aimed to explore whether would affect quality, which turn affects HRQOL. Methods Participants aged 40 above were randomly recruited from a Hong Kong public primary care clinic. asked report average number (waking up at night void) pisodes per over 1-month period. The Pittsburgh Sleep...