Researcher, Educator, and Public Health Communicator
Lab members Shema Salim, Kang Shen, Jo-Vivian Yu, Wish Chang, and Dr. Alicia Hong made multiple presentations at Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Baltimore, MD, June 29 to July 1, 2024:
Shema Salim did a wonderful presentation of her capstone project entitled “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantages and Nursing Home Quality: A Perspective of Social Determinants of Health” and proudly graduated with the Master of Health Informatics with honors. Congratulations Shema! After graduation,…
Kang Shen and Dr. Alicia Hong presented at the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media 8th Annual Conference, May 16~17, 2024.
Lab members made a poster presentation at the Society for Behavioral Medicine Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA, March 13~16, 2024: Hong YA, Yu JV, Xue H, Zhou G. Eating behaviors and eating environment among college students: A longitudinal study using…
Dr. Alicia Hong was invited to serve on NIA Special Emphasis Panel on Dementia Care and Caregiving Support Intervention Research. The panel reviews grant applications on support and services for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD) and…
A new paper entitled “Mobile health and behavior tracking (mHBT) among cancer survivors: results from a large and diverse sample” was published on Mhealth. PMID: 38323153
Our qualitative study entitled ‘It’s a lonely journey’: caregiving experiences and psychosocial distress among Chinese American dementia family caregivers, was published on Aging and Mental Health. It also includes a conceptual framework that shows multilevel factors contributing to caregiving stress.
Dr. Alicia Hong was invited to serve on National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Special Emphasis Panel of Technologies for Improving Minority Health Eliminating Health Disparities.
EMBRACE Project Funded! Dr. Alicia Hong led a team of interdisciplinary scientists (Dr. Amira Roess, Dr. Ali Weinstein, and Dr. Siddhartha Sikdar) and received the inaugural Network Catalyst Grant from the Mason Institute of Sustainable Earth. The funded project entitled…
WECARE 1.0 pilot study was published on JMIR Aging! Our trial showed that WECARE significantly decreased depressive symptoms (effect size=.89) and caregiving burden (effect size=.48) among Chinese American dementia caregivers; the retention rate was 96%.