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Age & Mental Health Lab

Researching into mental health conditions across age groups, from exploring the neuroscience behind it to putting research into action through intervention and implementation science

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What's New

Latest from Our Team

01

Casebook of Dementia

A free open-access reference guide for primary care teams based on 99 cases seeking help from a dementia early detection service partnered with primary care of the Hong Kong Alzheimer's Disease Association. Read online here.

02

5th Int'l CST Conference 2024

The International Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) community gathered in Hong Kong to share the latest research ideas, practice wisdom, mutual support, and friendship. Missed it this year? Find out more about the programme and the event here.  

03

JC JoyAge Symposium 2024

Experts from mental health, public policy, family medicine, and social work shared insight on implementing cost-effective strategies for preventing depression and the challenges and opportunities of integrating mental health into primary care. Read here. 

Research Themes

Team

Mental health and social care researchers based in UK & HK

Our mission is to provide support for people with mental health care needs by enhancing understanding of psychopathology and social systems.

We collaborate across disciplines, with researchers in psychiatry, nursing, economics, social policy, statistics, big data analytics, and computer science

from around the world, to achieve this goal. We are part of the International Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) Centre and the STRiDE Network. 

Alumni

Selected Publications

Highlights

  1. Wong, H. Y. G., Ma, B. H. M., Lee, M. Y. N., & Dai, D. L. K. (2024). Casebook of Dementia: A Reference Guide for Primary Care. Cambridge University Press. 

  2. Knapp, M., & Wong, G. (2020). Economics and mental health: the current scenario. World Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20692

  3. Wong, H. Y. G. (2020). Social anxiety within a network of mild delusional ideations, negative symptoms and insight in outpatients with early psychosis: A psychopathological path analysis. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2020.1723007

  4. Wong, G. H. Y., Yek, O. P. L., Zhang, A. Y., Lum, T. Y. S., & Spector, A. (2018). Cultural adaptation of cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) for Chinese people with dementia: multicentre pilot study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33, 841-848. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4663

  5. Xu, J. Q., Choy, J. C. P., Tang, J. Y. M., Liu, T. Y., Luo, H., Lou, V. W. Q., Lum, T. Y. S., & Wong, G. H. Y. (2017). Spontaneously reported symptoms by informants are associated with clinical severity in dementia help-seekers. Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 65, 1946-1952. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14931

  6. Wong, G. H. Y., Ng, C. K. M., Lai, C. K. Y., Lee, M. N. Y., Lum, T. Y. S., Jiang, N., Shie, H. W. H., Wu, J. Y. M., Dai, D. L. K. (2015). Design and development of Six Arts, a culturally appropriate framework for multimodal non-pharmacological intervention in dementia. The Gerontologist, 55, 865-874. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnu102

  7. Chen, E. H. Y., Lee, H., Chan, G.H.K., & Wong, G.H.Y. (Eds). (2013). Early Psychosis Intervention: A Culturally Adaptive Clinical Guide. Hong Kong University Press.

  8. Wong, G. H. Y., Hui, C. L. M., Tang, J. Y. M., Chiu, C. P. Y., Lam, M. M. L., Chan, S. K. W., Chang, W. C., & Chen, E. Y. H. (2012). Screening and assessing ideas and delusions of reference using a semi-structured interview scale: A validation study in early psychosis patients. Schizophrenia Research, 135, 158-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2011.12.006

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Selected Publications
Dementia

  1. Wong, H. Y. G., Ma, B. H. M., Lee, M. Y. N., & Dai, D. L. K. (2024). Casebook of Dementia: A Reference Guide for Primary Care. Cambridge University Press.

  2. Knapp, M., & Wong, G. (2024). Economics and dementia: Challenges and responses. Dementia. 23(3):512-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012231193141

  3. Shi, C., Chen, S., Salcher-Konrad, M., Choy, J. C. P., Luo, H., Leung, D. K. Y., Cai, X., Zeng, Y., Dai, R., Comas-Herrera, A., McDaid, D. M., Knapp, M., & Wong, G. H. Y. (2021). Effectiveness of interventions for people living with dementia and their carers in Chinese communities: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BMJ Open, 17, 11(8):e047560. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047560  

  4. Leung, D. K. Y., Chan, W. C., Spector, A., & Wong, G. H. Y. (2021). Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and apathy symptoms across dementia stages: a meta-analysis and meta-regression. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5556

  5. Luo, H., Andersson, B. H., Tang, J. Y. M., & Wong, G. H. Y. (2019). Applying item response theory analysis to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a low-education older population. Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191118821733

  6. Wong, G. H. Y., Yek, O. P. L., Zhang, A. Y., Lum, T. Y. S., & Spector, A. (2018). Cultural adaptation of cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) for Chinese people with dementia: multicentre pilot study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33, 841-848. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4663

  7. Xu, J. Q., Choy, J. C. P., Tang, J. Y. M., Liu, T. Y., Luo, H., Lou, V. W. Q., Lum, T. Y. S., & Wong, G. H. Y. (2017). Spontaneously reported symptoms by informants are associated with clinical severity in dementia help-seekers. Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 65, 1946-1952. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14931

  8. Wong, G. H. Y., Ng, C. K. M., Lai, C. K. Y., Lee, M. N. Y., Lum, T. Y. S., Jiang, N., Shie, H. W. H., Wu, J. Y. M., Dai, D. L. K. (2015). Design and development of Six Arts, a culturally appropriate framework for multimodal non-pharmacological intervention in dementia. The Gerontologist, 55, 865-874. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnu102

Selected Publications
Psychosis

  1. Wong, S. M. Y., Hui, C. L. M., Wong, C. S. M., Suen, Y. N., Chan, S. K. W., Lee, E. H. M., Chang, W. C., Wong, G. H. Y., & Chen, E. Y. H. (2021). Induced ideas of reference during social unrest and pandemic in Hong Kong. Schizophrenia Research, 229, 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2021.01.027

  2. Chan, S. K. W., Liu, T., Wong, A. O. Y., Wong, G., Hsiao, J., Hui, C. L. M., Chang, W. C., Lee, E. H. M., & Chen, E. Y. H. (2021). Self-referential gaze perception of patients with schizophrenia and its relationship with symptomatology and cognitive functions. Schizophrenia Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2020.12.034

  3. Wong, H. Y. G. (2020). Social anxiety within a network of mild delusional ideations, negative symptoms and insight in outpatients with early psychosis: A psychopathological path analysis. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2020.1723007

  4. Tang, L. S. C., Wong, G. H. Y., Chen, E. Y. H. (2016). Increased distractibility to own name in psychotic patients with ideas and delusions of reference. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 21, 107-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2015.1137212

  5. Chen, E. H. Y., Lee, H., Chan, G.H.K., & Wong, G.H.Y. (Eds). (2013). Early Psychosis Intervention: A Culturally Adaptive Clinical Guide. Hong Kong University Press.

  6. Chang, W. C., Hui, C. L., Tang, J. Y., Wong, G. H., Chan, S. K., Lee, E. H., & Chen, E. Y. (2013). Impacts of duration of untreated psychosis on cognition and negative symptoms in first-episode schizophrenia: a 3-year prospective follow-up study. Psychological Medicine, 43, 1883-1893. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291712002838 

  7. Wong, G. H. Y., Hui, C. L. M., Tang, J. Y. M., Chiu, C. P. Y., Lam, M. M. L., Chan, S. K. W., Chang, W. C., & Chen, E. Y. H. (2012). Screening and assessing ideas and delusions of reference using a semi-structured interview scale: A validation study in early psychosis patients. Schizophrenia Research, 135, 158-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2011.12.006

  8. Chen, E. Y. H., Tang, J. Y. M., Hui, C. L. M., Chiu, C. P. Y., Lam, M. M. L., Law, C. W., Yew, C. W. S., Wong, G. H. Y., Chung, D. W. S., Tso, S., Chan, K. P. M., Yip, K. C., Hung, S. F., & Honer, W. G. (2011). Three-year outcome of phase-specific early intervention for first-episode psychosis: a cohort study in Hong Kong. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 5, 315-323. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-7893.2011.00279.x

Selected Publications
Across the
Life Course

  1. Liu, T., Leung, D. K. Y., Lu, S., Kwok, W.-W., Sze, L. C. Y., Tse, S. S. K., Ng, S. M., Wong, P. W. C., Lou, V. W. Q., Tang, J. Y. M., Wong, D. F. K., Chan, W. C., Kwok, R. Y. K., Lum, T. Y. S., & Wong, G. H. Y. (2022). Collaborative community mental health and aged care services with peer support to prevent late-life depression: study protocol for a non-randomized controlled trial. Trials. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06122-1

  2. Akhter-Khan, S. C., Prina, M., Wong, G. H. Y., Mayston, R., & Leon Li. (2022). Understanding and addressing older adults’ loneliness: The social relationship expectation (SRE) framework. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221127218

  3. Tang, J. Y. M., Luo, H., Tse, M., Lum, T. Y. S., Wong, G. H. Y., Li, S. (2021). The relationship between insomnia symptoms and frailty in community-dwelling older persons: A path analysis. Sleep Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2021.05.039

  4. Lam, B. Y-H., Hui, C. L-M, Lui, S. S-Y., Chan, K-T., Wong, M. T-H., Kit-Wa Chan, S. K-W., Lee, E. H-M., Chang, W-C., Wong, G. H-Y., & Chen, E. Y-H. (2021). LevelMind@JC Hubs - A novel community-based youth mental wellness early intervention in Hong Kong: An evaluation of stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.13192 

  5. Hui, C. L. M., Lam, B. Y. H., Wong, S. M. Y., Lui, S. S. Y., Chan, K. T., Wong, M. T. H., Wong, C. S. M., Suen, Y. N., Chan, S. K. W., Lee, E. H. M., Chang, W. C., Wong, G. H. Y., & Chen, E. Y. H. (2021). Measuring subjective stress among young people in Hong Kong: Validation and predictive utility of the single-item Subjective Level of Stress (SLS-1) in epidemiological and longitudinal community samples. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 30, E61. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045796021000445

  6. Liu, T., Lu, S., Leung, D. K. Y., Sze, L., Kwok, W. W., Tang, J., Luo, H., Lum, T., & Wong, G. (2020). Adapting the UCLA 3-item loneliness scale for community-based depressive symptoms screening interview among older Chinese: a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. BMJ Open. 2020;10:e041921. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041921

  7. Chai, Y., Luo, H., Wong, G. H. Y., Tang, J. Y. S., Wong, I. C. K., Yip, P. S. F. (2020). Risk of self-harm after the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders: A nested case-control study in Hong Kong, 2000-2010. Lancet Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30004-3 

  8. Knapp, M., & Wong, G. (2020). Economics and mental health: the current scenario. World Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20692 

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