المؤلفون: Yu, Nancy Xiaonan, Ni, Michael Y., Stewart, Sunita M.

المصدر: Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health; Jun2021, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p597-605, 9p

مصطلحات موضوعية: IMMIGRANTS, RACISM, ANALYSIS of variance, MINORITIES, CROSS-sectional method, SATISFACTION, FAMILIES, FACTOR analysis, POPULATION-based case control, STATISTICAL sampling, STATISTICAL correlation, APGAR score, PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience, LONGITUDINAL method, PSYCHOTHERAPY

مصطلحات جغرافية: CHINA, HONG Kong (China)

مستخلص: 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 perceived discrimination and physical symptoms, and family satisfaction would show moderating effects on both depressive and physical symptoms among immigrants. Immigrant women from Mainland China into Hong Kong (N = 966) completed a cross-sectional survey. Depressive symptoms mediated the association between perceived discrimination and physical symptoms. Family satisfaction moderated the association between perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms that participants with lower family satisfaction showed a stronger association. However, family satisfaction did not moderate with perceived discrimination or depressive symptoms to predict physical symptoms. Our findings demonstrated the health consequences of perceived discrimination. Development of resilience programs, particularly with a focus of strengthening family resources, may in tandem help immigrants manage their experiences with discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Yu, Nancy Xiaonan, Chan, Cecilia L. W., Zhang, Jianxin, Stewart, Sunita M.

المصدر: AIDS Care; Apr2016, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p441-444, 4p

مصطلحات موضوعية: MORTALITY of AIDS patients, BEREAVEMENT, STATISTICAL correlation, DEATH, FEAR, GRIEF, HIV-positive persons, QUESTIONNAIRES, REGRESSION analysis, RESEARCH funding, PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience, RURAL conditions, STATISTICAL sampling, SPOUSES, TIME, ATTITUDES toward death, CROSS-sectional method, PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability, DESCRIPTIVE statistics

مصطلحات جغرافية: CHINA

مستخلص: Spousal bereavement is closely linked to prolonged grief, that is, significant adjustment symptoms that last for more than six months after the loss. This article focused on potential risk and protective factors that may influence bereavement outcomes. Participants in this study were surviving spouses of individuals who died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). These participants were themselves living with human immunodeficiency syndrome. In this cross-sectional study, 120 bereaved participants completed measures of grief, quality of dying and death of the deceased, negative conceptions of death resulting from AIDS, death attitudes, and personal resilience. The results showed that one-third (35.0%) of the bereaved participants reported grief levels above the prolonged grief cut-off scores, and can be categorized as the “prolonged grief” group. Although quality of dying and death was not associated with the intensity of grief, negative conceptions of death from AIDS, fear of death and resilience independently predicted grief symptoms in the regression models. Our findings provide insight into the grief process for the surviving spouse of AIDS victims in rural China. Since resilience is malleable, developing resilience interventions to enhance adjustment to bereavement may be a promising direction in grief counselling and therapies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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المؤلفون: Ni, Michael, Li, Tom, Yu, Nancy, Pang, Herbert, Chan, Brandford, Leung, Gabriel, Stewart, Sunita, Ni, Michael Y, Li, Tom K, Yu, Nancy X, Chan, Brandford H Y, Leung, Gabriel M, Stewart, Sunita M

المصدر: Quality of Life Research; Jan2016, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p111-116, 6p, 3 Charts

مصطلحات موضوعية: PSYCHOMETRICS, HEALTH of Chinese people, MEDICAL statistics, COMMUNITIES, MENTAL health, QUALITY of life, MENTAL depression, COMPARATIVE studies, RESEARCH methodology, MEDICAL cooperation, QUESTIONNAIRES, RESEARCH, PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience, ASIANS, EVALUATION research, PSYCHOLOGY

مصطلحات جغرافية: HONG Kong (China)

مستخلص: Purpose: 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 scale, and to provide normative data for the CD-RISC and the CD-RISC2 in a Chinese general population in Hong Kong.Methods: In total, 10,997 randomly selected participants aged ≥20 years completed the Chinese version of the CD-RISC (including the 2 items of the CD-RISC2), the Patient Health Questionnaire, Family Harmony Scale, Family APGAR, and CAGE Questionnaire. Internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity of the CD-RISC and CD-RISC2 were assessed.Results: Cronbach's α for CD-RISC and CD-RISC2 was 0.97 and 0.79, respectively. CD-RISC2 was associated with the 25-item version of the CD-RISC (r = 0.88), depressive symptoms (r s = -0.18), family harmony (r = 0.20), family functioning (r = 0.27) and was not associated with alcohol consumption (r = 0.05). The mean score for the CD-RISC and CD-RISC2 was 59.99 (SD = 13.92) and 5.03 (SD = 1.37), respectively. Men, younger individuals, and those with higher education or higher household income reported higher resilience levels.Conclusions: The Chinese version of the CD-RISC2 was demonstrated to be a reliable and valid measure in assessing resilience among the general population in Hong Kong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Yu, Nancy X., Lam, T. H., Liu, Iris K. F., Stewart, Sunita M.

المصدر: Frontiers in Psychology; Nov2015, p1-17, 17p

مصطلحات موضوعية: PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience, PSYCHOLOGY of immigrants, CLINICAL trials, RANDOMIZED controlled trials, FOLLOW-up studies (Medicine)

مصطلحات جغرافية: HONG Kong (China)

مستخلص: Few clinical trials report on the active intervention components that result in outcome changes, although this is relevant to further improving efficacy and adapting effective programs to other populations. This paper presents follow-up analyses of a randomized controlled trial to enhance adaptation by increasing knowledge and personal resilience in two separate brief interventions with immigrants from Mainland China to Hong Kong (Yu et al., 2014b). The present paper extends our previous one by reporting on the longer term effect of the interventions on personal resilience, and examining whether the Resilience intervention worked as designed to enhance personal resilience. The four-session intervention targeted at self-efficacy, positive thinking, altruism, and goal setting. In this randomized controlled trial, 220 immigrants were randomly allocated to three arms: Resilience, Information (an active control arm), and Control arms. Participants completed measures of the four active components (self-efficacy, positive thinking, altruism, and goal setting) at baseline and immediately after the intervention. Personal resilience was assessed at baseline, post-intervention, and 3- and 6-month follow-ups. The results showed that the Resilience arm had greater increases in the four active components post-intervention. Changes in each of the four active components at the post-intervention assessment mediated enhanced personal resilience at the 3-month follow-up in the Resilience arm. Changes in self-efficacy and goal setting showed the largest effect size, and altruism showed the smallest. The arm effects of the Resilience intervention on enhanced personal resilience at the 6-month follow-up were mediated by increases of personal resilience post-intervention (Resilience vs. Control) and at the 3-month follow-up (Resilience vs. Information). These findings showed that these four active components were all mediators in this Resilience intervention. Our results of the effects of short term increases in personal resilience on longer term increase in personal resilience in some models suggest how changes in intervention outcomes might persist over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Xiaonan Yu^1,2, Stewart, Sunita M.³ sunita.stewart@utsouthwestern.edu, Chui, Jolian P. L.⁴, Ho, Joy L. Y.⁴, Li, Anthony C. H.⁴, Tai Hing Lam⁵

المصدر: Behavior Therapy. Jan2014, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p137-152. 16p.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *RANDOMIZED controlled trials, *IMMIGRANTS, *PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation, *MEDICINE information services, *FOLLOW-up studies (Medicine), *PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience

مصطلحات جغرافية: HONG Kong (China)

مستخلص: Immigration occurs globally, and immigrants are vulnerable to the development of adaptation difficulties. Little evidence is available for effective programs to enhance immigrant adaptation outside of the West. This pilot randomized controlled trial tested the effectiveness of two interventions used to decrease adaptation difficulties by (a) providing knowledge of resources that are relevant to the Hong Kong context or (b) enhancing personal resilience in immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. A total of 220 participants were randomly assigned to three conditions: information, resilience, or control arms. They completed measures on adaptation difficulties, knowledge, and personal resilience at baseline, immediately after the intervention (postintervention), and at a 3-month follow-up. The information intervention resulted in higher increases postintervention in knowledge than did the other two arms. The resilience intervention reported greater increases in personal resilience than did the control arm at both postintervention and 3 months later; it also reported greater increases than the information arm did at the 3-month follow-up. Although both interventions reported greater decreases in adaptation difficulties than the control arm did at postintervention and 3 months later, no significant differenceswere found when theywere compared with each other at both time points. Both programs had high acceptability and were feasible to implement in the community. Change in knowledge had no significant mediation effect on adaption difficulties, but change in personal resilience from baseline to postintervention mediated the effect of the intervention on the outcome of adaptation difficulties at the 3-month follow-up. These findings indicate evidence for benefits of the information and resilience interventions, and they inform further development of our programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

المؤلفون: Hu, Jinghan¹ (AUTHOR), Liu, Iris Kam Fung² (AUTHOR), Stewart, Sunita M.³ (AUTHOR), Lam, Tai Hing⁴ (AUTHOR), Yu, Nancy Xiaonan¹ (AUTHOR) nancy.yu@cityu.edu.hk

المصدر: Behavior Therapy. Sep2022, Vol. 53 Issue 5, p944-957. 14p.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *CLUSTER randomized controlled trials, *CHINESE people, *PSYCHOLOGICAL well-being, *PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience, *MENTAL health, *MENTAL depression

مصطلحات جغرافية: HONG Kong (China)

مستخلص: Barriers to adaptation faced by mainland Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong can be reduced by improving two targets of adaptation: information about negotiating their new environment and psychological well-being. We developed and evaluated a Compound intervention to address these two domains simultaneously and compared its effects to two separate interventions exclusively targeting either information about Hong Kong or psychological well-being. This cluster randomized controlled trial assigned 251 immigrants to an information provision arm (IP, n = 84) targeting knowledge and adaptation difficulties, a psychological well-being enhancement arm (WBE, n = 80) targeting resilience and mental health, or a Compound arm (i.e., IP + WBE, n = 87). The Compound arm showed stronger effects from baseline to postintervention on knowledge than the WBE arm. From postintervention to 6-month follow-up, the Compound arm showed better sustained effects on knowledge and adaptation difficulties than the IP arm and on resilience and mental health than the WBE arm. Additionally, participants in the Compound arm with more baseline depressive symptoms showed greater improvements in adaptation difficulties and general mental health than those with fewer symptoms. The study demonstrated the longer-term effectiveness of the Compound intervention and its greater benefits for immigrants with more depressive symptoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]