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| First Name: | Wai-Tong | | Last Name: | Chien | | Title: | Professor | | Advanced Degrees: | PhD, MPhil, BN | | Affiliation: | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | | Department: | School of Nursing | Country/Territory: | Hong Kong | | Email Address: |  |
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Member reports no financial or other potential conflicts of interest. [Last Modified: 25 October 2011]
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Alzheimer Disease, Aging Process
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Epidemiology, Stem cells, Clinical trials, caregiving needs
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Wai-Tong Chien has been working as an academic and research staff in university since 1997 and has graduated from PhD program in King's College London in 2006 with a thesis entitled: ‘Evaluation of mutual support group for family carers of patients with schizophrenia’, in Hong Kong. During his five years of study with us, Wai-Tong has published a number of papers on his work and presented at three international conferences, including the Mixed Methods Conference and Workshops 2006 in Cambridge, UK, the 13th and 15th International Nursing Research Congress by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International in Brisbane, Australia and in Dublin, Ireland, respectively. The three presentations were funded by the Staff Development Funds and Conference Grants, at the Universities of Hong Kong.
He is now working in the School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong SAR) as Professor. Based on his PhD work, he has conducted more research in psycho-education and family interventions for Chinese patients with dementia and schizophrneia. The selected publications recently are:
Chien, W.T., & Lee, I.Y.M. (in press). Randomised controlled trial of a dementia care programme for families of home-resided older people with dementia. Journal of Advanced Nursing. (Accepted Sep 2010)
Cheung, S.K.D., Chien, W.T., & Lai, K.Y.C. (in press). Conceptual framework for cognitive function enhancement in people with dementia. Journal of Clinical Nursing. (Accepted Aug 10)
Chan, S., Jia, S., Chiu, H., Chien, W.T., Thompson, D., Hu, Y., & Lam, L. (2009). Subjective health-related quality of life of Chinese older persons with depression in Shanghai and Hong Kong: Relationship to clinical factors, level of functioning and social support. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24 (4), 355-362.
Chien, W.T., & Lee, I.Y.M. (2008). A disease management program for families of persons in Hong Kong with dementia. Psychiatric Services, 59(4), 433-436.
Chien, W.T., & Norman, I. (2009). The effectiveness and active ingredients of mutual support groups for family caregivers of people with psychotic disorders: A literature review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46 (12), 1604-1623. |
Chien, W.T., & Lee, I.Y.M. (in press). Randomised controlled trial of a dementia care programme for families of home-resided older people with dementia. Journal of Advanced Nursing. (Accepted Sep 2010)
Chien, W.T., & Chan, S.W.C. (2009). Testing the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Level of Expressed Emotion Scale. Research in Nursing & Health, 32 (1), 59-70.
Chien, W.T., & Norman, I. (2009). The effectiveness and active ingredients of mutual support groups for family caregivers of people with psychotic disorders: A literature review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46 (12), 1604-1623.
Chien, W.T., & Lee, I.Y.M. (2008). A disease management program for families of persons in Hong Kong with dementia. Psychiatric Services, 59(4), 433-436.
Chien, W.T., Thompson, D.R., & Norman, I. (2008). Evaluation of a peer-led mutual support group for Chinese families of people with schizophrenia. American Journal of Community Psychology, 42(1-2), 122-134.
Chien, W.T., Chan, W.C.S., & Morrissey, J. (2007). The perceived burden among Chinese family caregivers of people with schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16, 1151-1161.
Chien, W.T., Chan, W.C.S., & Thompson, D. R. (2006). Effects of a mutual support group for families of Chinese people with schizophrenia: 18-month follow-up. British Journal of Psychiatry, 189, 41-49.
Chien, W.T., Chan, C.W.H., Lam, L.W., & Kam, C.W. (2005). Psychiatric inpatients’ perceptions of positive and negative aspects of physical restraint. Patient Education and Counseling, 59(1), 80-86.
Chien, W.T., & Norman, I. (2004). The validity and reliability of a Chinese version of the Family Burden Interview Schedule. Nursing Research, 53(5), 314-322.
Fung, W.Y., & Chien, W.T. (2002). The effectiveness of a mutual support group for family caregivers of a relative with dementia. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, XVI(3), 134-144.
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Boorsma M, van Hout HP, Frijters DH, Ribbe MW, Nijpels G. The cost-effectiveness of a new disease management model for frail elderly living in homes for the elderly, design of a cluster randomized controlled clinical trial. BMC Health Services Research 2008; 8:143
Eggermont LH, Scherder EJ. Physical activity and behaviour in dementia: a review of the literature and implications for psychosocial intervention in primary care. Dementia 2006;5:411–428.
Rolland Y, Pillard F, Klapouszczak A, et al. Exercise program for nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease: a 1-year randomized, controlled trial. J Am Geriatr Soc 2007;55:158–165. |
A multi-centre RCT of relative effectiveness of CBT, Psychoeducation and routine education and care program for families of clients with dementia on psychosocial and mental well-beings |
There would be significant improvements on family caregivers' caring burden, self-efficacy and general health and clients' symptom severity and hospitalizations in CBT and psychoeducation participants than those in routine care.
There would also be greater improvements on family caregivers and cleints' psychoedical and mental conditions in CBT program than those in psychoeducation program. |
There should be a culturally sensitive psychosocial intervention program for specific ethnic families of clients with dementia |
The proposed CBT and psychoeducation programs for families of clients with dementia can be similarly effective in helping family caregivers' mental helath improvements but not essentially in improving clients' neuro-psyhciatric symptoms. |
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