A5100330052- Chinese history and philosophy
- Reading and Literacy Development
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Language Development and Disorders
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Sex work and related issues
- Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
- China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Homelessness and Social Issues
Beijing Xuanwu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital
2025
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013-2024
Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2024
Yale University
2014-2024
Hong Kong Jockey Club
2021-2024
University of Toronto
2005-2023
Central South University
2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
University of Regina
2023
Xiangya Hospital Central South University
2023
The Brief COPE instrument has been utilized to conduct research on various populations, including people living with HIV (PLWH). However, the questionnaire constructs when applied PLWH have not subjected thorough factor validation. A total of 258 were recruited from two provinces China. They answered questions involving scales three instruments: COPE, Perceived Social Support Scale, and Discrimination Scale for PLWH. Confirmatory analysis (CFA) exploratory (EFA) conducted. CFA found a poor...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a massive infodemic. Yet limited studies have quantified the impact of infodemic on vaccine hesitancy. This study examined effect perceived information overload (IO) and misinformation willingness uptake within cross-national context. It also investigated how trust in multiple institutions affected outcomes moderated relationship between attitude behavior. A online survey residents, representative general population aged ≥18 six Asian Western...
With the rise of social media, everyone has potential to be both a consumer and producer online content. Although one might assume that people share news because they believe it true, worldwide concerns about spread misinformation suggest truthfulness may not dominant driver sharing online. Across three studies (total N=4,786), we investigate what content dimensions are associated with media intentions for wide range headlines. When examine relationships between using factor analysis,...
The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence and risk factors syphilis infection among female sex workers in a southwestern Chinese city along drug trafficking route.From December 2004 January 2005, 343 (FSWs) were recruited through community outreach peer referring. Confidential questionnaire interviews administered collect information on sexual other sexually transmitted diseases/HIV behaviors. Cervical blood samples collected test for HIV antibodies Neisseria gonorrhoeae...
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the well-being of people across all age groups, with children being particularly vulnerable due to their reliance on stable routines and social interactions for healthy development. Guided by stress-coping theory, this study examines impact life stressors support children’s subjective during pandemic. Using a large-scale, cross-national dataset 20,047 aged 7–15 from 20 societies, we assessed how various friends, family, teachers...
Blackground: Due to the narrow therapeutic time window and strict indications, there are still a large number of patients unable receive thrombolysis endovascular therapy, resulting in poor long-term functional prognosis. Moreover, it is unclear what effective targets as well molecular systemic changes stroke chronic phase. Therefore, provide useful insights into its pathogenesis, identification biomarker discovery, we analyze proteomic profile blood ischemic order gain disease. Method: We...
Background The body of literature on narratives bilingual children with and without specific language impairment (SLI) is growing. However, little known about the narrative abilities preschool SLI their patterns growth. Aims To determine similarities differences in between preschoolers who are either monolingual or at two time points. Methods & Procedures Forty completed a retell task English test mean ages were 52 58 months Times 1 2, respectively. We examined performance measures...
Although classical theorists tend to believe that immigrant youth are more delinquent than native-born adolescents, the existing empirical studies have shown opposite. The current paper first gives a comprehensive overview of major theoretical explanations for relatively lower level delinquency among youth, including cultural perspectives, strain theories, social control theory, learning and disorganization theory. main argument is who not yet acculturated subculture host society law-abiding...
While most research focuses on the clinical treatment of COVID-19, fewer studies have investigated individuals' responses towards this novel infectious disease. This study aims to report temporal changes in psychological wellbeing, perceived discrimination, sociopolitical perceptions and information-seeking behaviours among general public Hubei, China. Data were obtained from a two-wave survey 1902 respondents aged 18-80 Hubei province during peak mitigation stages outbreak. The results...
Female injecting drug users who are sex workers (IDUFSWs) is a strategic "bridge population" for HIV transmission. Goals of the study were to investigate condom use behaviors during commercial among IDUFSWs using Theory Planned Behavior (TPB), and moderating effects that modify strength associations between TPB-related variables inconsistent sex. A total 281 non-institutionalized recruited snowball sampling method. Anonymous face-to-face interviews administered by trained doctors. The...
Abstract This study investigated subtypes of developmental dyslexia in Chinese by assessing three cases dyslexic children. A battery screening measures, a character naming and meaning task, metalinguistic awareness tasks were administered to each child. One the children demonstrated characteristics surface dyslexia, other two showed deep dyslexia. Moreover, children's reading problems found be specifically related their deficits awareness. The dissociation between provides support Weekes et...
According to the Componential Model of Reading (CMR; Aaron, Joshi, Gooden, & Bentum, 2008), reading comprehension can be explained by 3 domains—cognitive, psychological, and ecological domains. We examined direct indirect contributions these domains in bilingual learners. Participants included 124 children Grades 4 through 6 who spoke Chinese as their first language. They were administered a battery language literacy measures, motivation acculturation questionnaires. Additionally,...
ABSTRACT The research reported in this paper investigated the effects of semantic relatedness words (closely related vs. distantly related) and morpheme type (free bound morpheme) on young Chinese children's homophone awareness, an aspect morphological two experiments. first experiment was a cross-sectional study including 39 children beginning kindergarten class, intermediate 36 senior class. second 7-month longitudinal involving 43 graders 50 at study. In both experiments, judged whether...
Aims To assess emergency department (ED) nurses' ability to communicate with angry patients and explore the factors that influence communication skills. Design A cross-sectional survey design. Methods This study was conducted in November December 2020. Stratified sampling adopted recruit ED nurses from 18 tertiary hospitals western, eastern, central China complete an online questionnaire. The Nurses' Communication Ability Angry Patients Scale (NCAAPS) General Self-Efficacy were used...
Background and purpose: Age‐related white matter changes (ARWMC) are closely associated with cognitive impairment. Although the ARWMC scale has been widely used to grade (WMC) severity, correlation between this impairment not studied. We aimed validate against cognition in patients stroke. Methods: determined severity of WMC for 172 stroke on MRI by volumetric quantification scale. Two scores (total score global score) were derived from assessed executive function using Mattis dementia...
Abstract First-generation refugee children often experience pre- and post-migration adversity display high levels of mental health/wellbeing difficulties, but to date, research has not examined the impact such factors on children's L2 acquisition. Accordingly, this study influence externalizing internalizing problem behaviours (wellbeing), time in camps low socioeconomic status (SES) (adversity) English-L2 abilities 117 Syrian (7–14 years) their third year residency Canada. Wellbeing...