Nursing research snapshot
Yim Wah MAK - Nursing - The University of Hong Kong
makyw@hkucc.hku.hk
My areas of research expertise
- Smoking cessation
- Health education
- Health promotion
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- Randomized controlled trial
- Survey
Areas that I am currently researching
- A randomized controlled trial on a brief telephone counseling on household smoking restriction and smoking cessation among parents with young children
- A randomized controlled trial on a low intensity trial on a low intensity smoking cessation intervention with feedback on secondhand smoke exposure among non-smoking spouse and children to the smoking father
- Building capacity for life-long learning with freshmen students
- A quasi-experimental study on cognitive-behavioural programme for work-related stress of secondary school teachers in HK; a pilot study
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Smoking cessation
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- Smoking cessation
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- Smoking cessation counseling and other tobacco control strategies
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