RESEARCH

(March 2005)

The research foci of the Department fall into two main areas: 1) Public Health, 2) Clinical Nursing.  To promote team work and encourage intra-department collaborations, staff of the Department are clustered into two research groups, namely Public Health Group and Clinical Nursing Group.  Members of each group meet regularly to share their research experiences and exchange potential project ideas.  In addition to these two main areas, the Department has also committed much effort to research projects on nursing education. 

Under the Public Health Group, there are four sub-groups in which staff of common research interests are grouped together.  The four sub-groups are: i) Health Promotion, ii) Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation (Lifestyle and Health Behavior), iii) Women and Children Health and iv) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).         

Below are the names and principal investigators of the on-going funded research projects of the Department.

A. PUBLIC HEALTH

i) Health Promotion

Ø          Role of Traditional Chinese Medicine nurses  -  S Leung & R Chan

ii) Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation

 Ø          A randomized controlled trial of a nurse-delivered staged matched smoking cessation intervention to promote heart health of cardiac patients  -  S Chan, TH Lam & CP Lau

Ø        Development of quality assurance for tobacco cessation counseling interventions -  S Chan, G Leung

Ø          A comparison study of the nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and practice in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and United States  -  S Chan

 Ø          Are nurses ready to fight the tobacco epidemic?: A comparison study with Mainland China -  S Chan, L Sarna & A Kwan

 Ø        A randomized controlled trial of a smoking hygiene intervention to reduce second hand smoking (SHS) exposure and improve respiratory health of infants: a pilot study - S Chan, TH Lam, G Leung, A Leung & K Emmons

iii) Women and Children Health

Ø          The relationship among Premenstrual Syndrome, dysmenorrhoea, psychosocial variables and quality of life -  S Leung, A Lee, E Wong, F Salili, T Fung & A Wong

Ø        Impact of intimate partner violence on the physical and mental health and social well-being of Chinese women at a shelter for abused women in Hong Kong -  A Tiwari, F Salili & D Tang

Ø          Application of the theory of planned behaviour to predict the Chinese women’s uptake of pap smear screening behaviour  -  E Wong

Ø        An evaluation of the effectiveness of an empowerment intervention for pregnant       abused women in Hong Kong   -  A Tiwari, WC Leung, TW Leung, E Chan, SK Lam, P Lee & PC Ho

Ø          An evaluation of the effectiveness of an empowerment intervention in a group of      abused Chinese women  -  A Tiwari, F Salili, R Chan, E Chan & D Tang

iv) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Ø        A one year surveillance study of nurses’ preventive measures and health status in relation to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Hong Kong -  S Chan, T H Lam, GM Leung, A Tiwari, F Salili, S Leung, A Wong & A Lai

Ø          A study of physical, psychological and social paediatric patients and their parents during hospitalization -  S Chan, A Tiwari, E Wong, D Leung, J Lee, SL Lo & YL Lau

 Ø          The Effective of a telephone health assessment and health education intervention to vulnerable elderly during the SARS epidemic -  S Chan, A Lee, W So and A Tiwari

B. CLINICAL NURSING

 Ø        Incidence and predicators of depression after stroke (DAS) – a longitudinal study -   A Lee

Ø        Factors influencing delayed presentation of symptomatic breast caner -        W Lam, R Fielding, M Chan, A Or, J Kong & D Lau

Ø        Preceived relevance of evidence-based psychosocial clinical practice guidelines for Hong Kong women with breast cancer: opinions of patients and health care providers -  W Lam

 Ø        The lived experience of women after diagnosing uterine cervical cancer - W So, W Lam & J Yuen

C. NURSING EDUCATION

 Ø          An evaluation of clinical problem based learning (PBL) for nursing studies  -    S Chan, A Tiwari, E Wong, A Wong & N Patil

Ø          Promoting Problem Based Learning (PBL) for nursing students in a clinical context -   S Chan, A Tiwari, E Wong  & A Wong

Ø          The impact of a part-time post-registration nursing degree program on information synthesis and nursing practice -  M Tarrant & J Dodgson

 Ø          Implementation of a mentoring programme for clinical mentors: a means to enhance clinical education and improve student learning - A Tiwari, S Chan,  F Yuen & A Wong

 Ø          The longitudinal effects of peer tutoring -  A Tiwari, F Yuen, S Chan & F Salili

 Ø          Effect of early learning partnership with medical students on sense of collegiality and satisfaction in trans-disciplinary collaboration among undergraduate nursing students - A Lee, S Leung, I Fu, S Chan

 Ø          Clinical and Communication skills in Fundamental Nursing Practice - A Lee

Ø         Developing a new paradigm for clinical education of university nursing students: An evidenced based approach -  S Chan, A Tiwari & F Yuen

Ø          Learning in later life: Hong Kong SAR Chinese soon-to-be old adults’ learning aspiration - A Leung, N Chow, F Salili

 Ø         The Frequency of Item Writing Flaws (IWFs) in High Stakes Nursing Examinations and The Unintended Consequences -  M Tarrant & J Ware

 Ø         An investigation of the factors affecting academic performance in part-time degree programme -  M Tarrant & J Ware

 Ø           Implementing clinical problem based learning (PBL) in undergraduate nursing students: the assessment of needs, difficulties, and learning resources -  S Chan, A Tiwari, W Lam & E Wong

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