Major Research Areas

Public health:
Health promotion
Promoting women's health: A gender specific smoking cessation program for female smokers in Hong Kong .

Tobacco control and smoking cessation
A randomized controlled trial of a nurse-delivered stage matched smoking cessation intervention to promote heart health of cardiac patients; 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; a randomized controlled trial on cessation and adherence intervention on patients with erectile dysfunction; smoking reduction intervention for smokers not willing to quit smoking: a randomized controlled trial; youth quitline - an assessable telephone-based smoking cessation hotline for young people; cost-effectiveness analysis of a nurse delivered stage-matched smoking cessation intervention to promote heart health of cardiac patients.

Health of women and children
Application of the theory of planned behaviour to predict the Chinese women's uptake of pap smear screening behaviour; an evaluation of the effectiveness of an empowerment intervention for pregnant abused women in Hong Kong; an evaluation of the effectiveness of an empowerment intervention in a group of abused Chinese women; impact of breastfeeding on hospitalizations from infectious diseases in Hong Kong Chinese children up to eight years of age; cost and clinical effectiveness of the Hong Kong scoliosis screening programme.

Clinical nursing:
The lived experience of women after diagnosing uterine cervical cancer; the symptom cluster and quality of life in patients with breast cancer undergoing cancer treatment.

Nursing education:
An evaluation of clinical Problem Based Learning (PBL) for nursing studies; promoting Problem Based Learning (PBL) for nursing students in a clinical context; an investigation of the factors affecting academic performance in part-time degree programme; implementing clinical Problem Based Learning (PBL) in undergraduate nursing students: the assessment of needs, difficulties, and learning resources; the impact of a part-time post-registration nursing degree program on information synthesis and nursing practice; implementation of a mentoring programme for clinical mentors: a means to enhance clinical education and improve student learning; the longitudinal effects of peer tutoring; developing a new paradigm for clinical education of university nursing students: an evidenced based approach; the frequency of Item Writing Flaws (IWFs) in high stakes nursing examinations and the unintended consequences; a validation of the Chinese (Hong Kong) version of the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI).

Medical statistics:
Use of multiple imputation on linear mixed model and generalized estimating equations for longitudinal data analysis: a simulation study.