Publications by authors named "Ying Yu Chui"
Aims And Objectives: To report on the effectiveness of an eight-week palliative care programme in Hong Kong.
Background: A recent survey reported that the quality of palliative care services in Hong Kong ranked the 20th among 40 countries and it is far behind other Asian countries. There are disagreement and inadequate communication in clinical decision-making among patients, families and healthcare professionals, and that the nurses lack sufficient knowledge and skills in providing palliative care and advance care planning.
Purpose: The benefits of utilizing computerized assessment in clinical settings have been reported in studies over the last three decades and more recently in the oncology settings. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using an electronic self report symptom assessment tool among Chinese oncology patients.
Methods And Sample: The tool, developed by The University of Washington, Distributed Health Assessment and Intervention Research (DHAIR) group was translated into Chinese.
An exploration of factors affecting Hong Kong ICU nurses in providing oral care.
J Clin Nurs
November 2010
Aim And Objectives: This paper aims to explore the factors that affect Hong Kong intensive care unit nurses in providing oral care.
Background: The literature shows that evidence-based oral care prevents ventilator-associated pneumonia. Nevertheless, not all intensive care unit nurses provide such care.
This study compared the effectiveness of an AIDS knowledge-only program (knowledge) with a combined program of AIDS knowledge and contact with people having HIV/AIDS (PHA) (knowledge-contact) in reducing nursing students' stigma and discrimination towards PHA and in enhancing their emotional competence to serve PHA. Eighty-nine nursing students from two universities in Hong Kong were randomly assigned to either the knowledge or the knowledge-contact condition. All participants completed measures of AIDS knowledge, stigmatizing attitudes, fear of contagion, willingness to treat, positive affect, and negative affect at pre-test, post-test, and six-week follow-up.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: This paper is a report of a study conducted to (1) assess the quality of life (QoL) and physical functioning status of patients diagnosed with advanced cancer and receiving palliative care; (2) determine if there was a statistically significant relationship between their physical functioning and QoL and (3) identify the demographic and disease-related variables related to their QoL.
Background: Achieving the best possible QoL is a major goal in palliative care. However, research findings about the relationship between QoL and demographic variables have been inconsistent.
Aim: This paper is a report of a study to explore the experiences of women undergoing internal radiation for cervical cancer.
Background: Cervical cancer continues to be one of the most common cancers and one of the leading causes of cancer deaths globally. Women's experiences of undergoing internal radiation for cervical cancer remain relatively unexplored, in particular in Hong Kong.
Aim: This paper describes a study identifying the impact of key aspects of Chinese culture on the responses of mid-aged Chinese-Australians to their advanced cancer in order to make recommendations about their care within the health system.
Background: Studies conducted in the 1960s and 1970s focused on understanding people's psychological responses to their experiences of terminal illness, but the issue of culture was not addressed. In recent years, a few studies have been conducted with Chinese-Australians, but were limited to issues related to their information needs and the disclosure of a cancer diagnosis.