Projects selected to receive funding for supporting caregivers & children with ADHD
Prof. Angela Leung [Professor and Associate Head (Research)] and Dr Harry Qin, [Associate Professor] both will receive the monetary support of around HK$ 1.97 million from the phase 2 of Mental Health Initiatives Funding Scheme, which is coordinated by the Advisory Committee on Mental Health, to develop innovative peer-support intervention programmes for improving mental wellbeing of caregivers.
Prof. Leung is leading her team (members: Dr Patrick Kor and Dr Teris Cheung, Assistant Professors; and Prof. Hector Tsang, Chair Professor & Head of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences) to develop The Electronic Interactive Painting and Peer Supportive (Epps) Platform aimed to motivate caregivers to share their paintings with others and seek help from families and professionals when they are stressful. The teams expect that the platform will help enhance the mental health literacy and peer support among caregivers.
Dr Harry Qin’s team (including Yuen-yi Cynthia Lai, Associate Professor, the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences) will develop the Peer Support Virtual Reality-based Intervention programme for reducing the stress of AD/HD caregivers and supporting the caregivers to maintain healthy relationships with their AD/HD children.
Dr Cara Chen (Principal Investigator)*, Postdoctoral Fellow (Supervisor: Dr Jerry Yeung, Associated Professor), also received HK$ 797,608 from the Chinese Medicine Development Fund - Industry Support Programme (supervised by the Health Bureau) for carrying out a a pilot randomised controlled trial to study the effectiveness of parent-administered pediatric tuina for improving sleep quality and appetite in school-aged children with ADHD.
*Co-investigators:
Dr Jerry Yeung, Dr Joyce Chung Assistant Professor (SN, PolyU); Dr Juan Ju, Professor, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital; Mr Dou-ming Wu, Senior Clinical Associate (the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, PolyU).
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