Publications by authors named "Ying Wai Bryan Ho"

Background: Depression is a growing concern among university students. Chatbots provide flexible, accessible, personalized psychosocial support. Delivering Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) sessions via chatbots may reduce depressive symptoms in university students.

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Background: Hope can affect the thinking habits, emotional regulations, and behaviors of individuals. Hope is considered as a positive trait by clinicians, who often assess the level of hope in psychological evaluations. Previous measurements of hope were largely based on self-reported questionnaires leading to the problem of subjectivity.

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Unlabelled: WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Family-involved interventions can result in better outcomes than traditional mental health care for both service users and their families. Nurses' attitudes towards family involvement can affect family participation in care. Earlier studies on psychiatric nurses' attitudes towards family involvement in care report ambiguous findings.

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