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Examination of measurement invariance of the fearlessness about death scale in youth patients
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Exploring the Construct of Perceived Burdensomeness Among Suicidal Adolescents: An Intervention Development Study
The Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide has a growing base of empirical support for use with adolescents. Of the two interpersonal constructs that make up the theory, perceived burdensomeness demonst...
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A Moderated Mediation Analysis on the Association Between Perceived Discrimination and Physical Symptoms Among Immigrant Women from Mainland China into Hong Kong: Evidence from the FAMILY Cohort
With a research focus on the possible impact of perceived discrimination on physical symptoms, this study examined a moderated mediation model that depressive symptoms would mediate the association between per...
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Test–retest reliability and validity of a single-item Self-reported Family Happiness Scale in Hong Kong Chinese: findings from Hong Kong Jockey Club FAMILY Project
Family happiness is one major theme of family well-being in Chinese culture. We investigated the reliability and validity of the single-item Self-reported Family Happiness Scale (SFHS-1) with the score of 0–10...
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Happy Family Kitchen II: Participants’ Perspectives of a Community-based Family Intervention
This qualitative study describes participants' experiences with a community-based family intervention. Guided by a positive psychology framework, the brief intervention was designed to enhance positive communi...
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Happy Family Kitchen: Behavioral Outcomes of a Brief Community-Based Family Intervention in Hong Kong
Positive psychology interventions commonly involve behavioral exercises to improve psychosocial well-being. Intervention effect on behavior is unclear. The Happy Family Kitchen project, one of the community-ba...
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Preliminary Examination of the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Adolescent Clinical Sample
This study offers a preliminary examination of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS; Joiner 2005) in an adolescent clinical sample. The IPTS offers a nuanced framework that has many conceptual ...
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Open AccessHappy Family Kitchen II: a cluster randomized controlled trial of a community-based positive psychology family intervention for subjective happiness and health-related quality of life in Hong Kong
Most positive psychology interventions conducted in the West have been focused on the individual. Family relationships are highly valued in the Chinese collectivist culture, and it is of interest to know wheth...
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Normative data and psychometric properties of the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and the abbreviated version (CD-RISC2) among the general population in Hong Kong
To examine whether the two-item version (CD-RISC2) of the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) has adequate internal consistency and construct validity, as well as significant correlation with the full s...
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Self-disclosure of serostatus by youth who are HIV-positive: a review
Self-disclosure of serostatus by youth who are HIV-positive has been considered an important objective for preventing transmission and can have positive outcomes including enhancement of social support. This p...
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Resilience and depressive symptoms in mainland Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong
Immigrants are highly vulnerable to the development of psychological problems such as depressive symptoms, which calls for further study of immigration in the Eastern context. Identification of factors that pr...
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Open AccessA Brief Parenting Intervention to Enhance the Parent–Child Relationship in Hong Kong: Harmony@Home
There is a dearth of high-level evidence for brief programs designed to promote positive parent–child relationships in nonwestern cultures. We present a pilot randomized controlled trial of a four-session inte...
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Open AccessBringing scientific rigor to community-developed programs in Hong Kong
This paper describes efforts to generate evidence for community-developed programs to enhance family relationships in the Chinese culture of Hong Kong, within the framework of community-based participatory res...
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Open AccessDepressive symptoms in people with chronic physical conditions: prevalence and risk factors in a Hong Kong community sample
Depression is predicted to become one of the two most burdensome diseases worldwide by 2020 and is common in people with chronic physical conditions. However, depression is relatively uncommon in Asia. Family ...
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Open AccessDevelo** community-based preventive interventions in Hong Kong: a description of the first phase of the family project
This paper describes the development of culturally-appropriate family-based interventions and their relevant measures, to promote family health, happiness and harmony in Hong Kong. Programs were developed in t...
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Open AccessValidity of the international physical activity questionnaire short form (IPAQ-SF): A systematic review
The International Physical Activity Questionnaire - Short Form (IPAQ-SF) has been recommended as a cost-effective method to assess physical activity. Several studies validating the IPAQ-SF have been conducted ...
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Open AccessPerformance of the international physical activity questionnaire (short form) in subgroups of the Hong Kong chinese population
The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-SF) has been validated and recommended as an efficient method to assess physical activity, but its validity has not been investigated in different popula...
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Somatic items in the assessment of depressive symptoms in pediatric patients with diabetes
Depression inventories contain somatic items which may be related to disease rather than to depression in individuals with chronic illness. Adolescents with type 1 diabetes (n = 151) and medically well controls (
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Depressive Symptoms Among Hong Kong Adolescents: Relation to Atypical Sexual Feelings and Behaviors, Gender Dissatisfaction, Pubertal Timing, and Family and Peer Relationships
A representative community sample of Hong Kong boys (n = 1,024) and girls (n = 1,403), age 14–18 years, provided information regarding same-sex attraction, gender dissatisfaction, pubertal timing, early experienc...
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Nonadherence in Adolescent Oncology Patients: Preliminary Data on Psychological Risk Factors and Relationships to Outcome
Published nonadherence rates in the adolescent oncology population range from 33 to 60% though little is known about the psychological factors that contribute to adherence and the relationship between outcome ...
