BIO
Yao Wang is an Associate Professor of Xiangya School of Nursing at Central South University. Dr. Wang has a research interest in the areas of caregiver support in dementia care, dementia education for health professionals and caregivers, nursing care of people with Alzheimer’s disease and chronical disease management. She has an established track record in health care for older people and people with dementia. Methodologies she has applied to research projects include qualitative studies and quantitative studies. Dr. Wang has published 20 academic papers and spoken at more than 5 academic conferences at home and abroad. She has supervised 7 research projects funded by funds at home and abroad, and has been a reviewer for more than 5 scientific journals as a reviewer. Dr. Wang has a teaching interest in community nursing, gerontological nursing, evidence-based nursing, midwifery and Obstetrics and Gynecological Nursing. She is a member of Chinese Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Nursing association of Hunan Province and Evidence-based Nursing Professional Committee of Hunan Province. She has close research collaborations with University of Toronto, and Flinders University.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2016 – 2020 Central South University, Changsha, China, Postdoctoral Fellow
2013 – 2014 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Joint-doctoral training
2012 – 2016 Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, Cotutellle Ph.D. in Nursing Science
2010 – 2015 Central South University, Changsha, China, Ph.D. in Nursing Science
2006 – 2010 Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, China, MBBS
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
01/2020– present An individualized telephone-based care support program for rural family caregivers of people with dementia: a clustered randomized controlled trial. China Medical Board. Role: Principal Investigator. USD 40,000.
01/2019– present The mental health of widowed elderly women living alone in rural minority areas in Hunan province. Women’s Federation of Hunan Province. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 20,000.
01/2019– present The development of a personalized dementia care intervention program for caregivers. Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education, P.R.C. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 80,000.
01/2019– present Mindfulness-based intervention for the depressed left-behind elderly in the rural areas of Hunan province and the mechanism study. Provincial Social Science Foundation of Hunan Province. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 20,000.
01/2017– 07/2020 The community health professionals, nursing and medical students’ dementia knowledge, attitudes and care approach in China. China's postdoctoral foundation. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 50,000.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (*Corresponding author)
*Wang, Y., *Xiao, L. D., & Huang, R. (2020). A comparative study of dementia knowledge, attitudes and care approach among Chinese nursing and medical students. BMC Medical Education, 20(1), 1-9. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-35401/v1
Wang, Y., *Xiao, L. D., Luo, Y., *Xiao, S.-Y., Whitehead, C., & Davies, O. (2018). Community health professionals’ dementia knowledge, attitudes and care approach: a cross-sectional survey in Changsha, China. BMC Geriatrics, 18(1), 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12877-018-0821-4
Wang, Y., *Xiao, L. D., Ullah, S., *He, G.-P., & De Bellis, A. (2017). Evaluation of a nurse-led dementia education and knowledge translation programme in primary care: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Nurse Education Today, 49, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.10.016
Wang, Y., *Xiao, L. D., & *He, G.-P. (2015). A comprehensive approach to psychometric assessment of instruments used in dementia educational interventions for health professionals: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52(2), 568-577.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.11.011
BOOKS
Wang, Y. (2018). Practice of Nurisng 2nd edition. People’s Medical Publishing House, Beijing.
Wang, Y. (2016). Obstetrics and Gynecological Nurisng.China Medical Science and Technology Press, Beijing.
