Staff Profile

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

• Population mental health
• Health education and promotion
• Community-based engagement research
• Positive parenting
• Mindfulness-based interventions

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• Sun Y, Ho SY, Chan CS, Wang MP, Wan AN, Xu Y, Lai AY, Lam TH. Brief Intervention to Promote Physical Activity and Mental Well-Being in Community Adults: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2024 Sep;15:21501319241281567.
• Sun Y, Wang Z, Sun S, Cui L, Zhu X, Ho SY, Qi S. Cognitive Activities, Lifestyle Factors, and Risk of Cognitive Impairment, with an Analysis of the Apolipoprotein Epsilon 4 Genotype. Gerontology. 2023 Sep 12;69(9):1137-46.
• Sun Y, Wu YS, Cheung YT, Wang MP, Chen J, Leung LT, Zhang X, Chak KY, Lam TH, Ho SY. Impact of mandatory masking amid the COVID-19 pandemic on outdoor smoking: An interrupted time-series analysis of a 33-month unobtrusive observational study. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023 Jul 13;11:1136621.
• Zhang X, Sun Y*, Cheung DYT, Wang MP, Wu Y, Chak KY, Chen J, Leung LT, Lam TH, Ho SY*. Cigarettes, heated tobacco products and dual use: exhaled carbon monoxide, saliva cotinine and total tobacco consumed by Hong Kong tobacco users. Tobacco Control. Published Online First: 24 January 2023. *Corresponding authors.
• Zhang X, Sun Y†, Cheung DYT, Wang MP, Wu Y, Chak KY, Chen J, Leung LT, Cheung WHL, Lam TH, Ho SY. Changes in Tobacco Use in the Early Phase of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Hong Kong: A Qualitative Study. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 2023, 25(2): 309-317. †Co-first author.
• Sun Y, Wang MP, Chan CS, Lo DLO, Wan ANT, Lam TH, Ho SY. Promoting positive parenting and mental wellbeing in Hong Kong Chinese parents: A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Plos one. 2022, 17(7): e0270064.
• Sun Y, Wang MP, Ho SY, Chan CS, Man PKW, Kwok TOT, Wan ANT, Lam TH. A smartphone app for promoting mental well-being and awareness of anxious symptoms in adolescents: A pilot cluster randomized controlled trial. Games for Health Journal. 2022, 11(6): 393-402.
• Sun Y, Wang M, Cheung YTD, Ho S, Luk TT, Zhao S, Wu YS, Wong BYM, Weng X, Chen J, Zhang X, Leung LT, Chak KY, Lam TH. Changes in tobacco use at the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of four cross-sectional surveys in Hong Kong. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 2022, 20: 1-9.
• Sun Y, Fung SSW, Man PKW, Wan ANT, Stewart S, Lam TH, et al. Promoting Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Parents: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021, 18(10): 5206.
• Sun Y, Lam TH, Cheung YT, Wang MP, Wu Y, Chen J, Zhang X, Li WHC, Ho SY. First report on smoking and infection control behaviours at outdoor hotspots during the COVID-19 pandemic: an unobtrusive observational study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021, 18(3): 1031.
• Sun Y, Wong SYS, Zhang D, Chen CHJ, Yip BHK. Behavioral activation with mindfulness in treating subthreshold depression in primary care: a cost-utility and cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2020, 132: 111-115.
• Fung SSW, Lam TH, Sun Y*, Man PKW, Ip JCM, Wan ANT, Stewart S, Ho SY. A cluster randomised controlled trial of more appreciation and less criticism in Hong Kong parents. Journal of Family Psychology. 2020, 34(6): 731-739. *Corresponding author.
• Sun Y, Luk TT, Wang MP, Shen C, Ho SY, Viswanath K, Chan SSC, Lam TH. The reliability and validity of the Chinese Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale in the general population of Hong Kong. Quality of Life Research. 2019, 28(10): 2813-2820.
• Sun Y, Möller J, Lundin A, Wong SYS, Yip BHK, Forsell Y. Utilization of psychiatric care and antidepressants among people with different severity of depression: a population-based cohort study in Stockholm, Sweden. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2018, 53(6): 607-615.
• Wong SYS, Sun Y, Chan ATY, Leung MKW, Chao DVK, Li CCK, Chan KKH, Tang WK, Mazzucchelli T, Au AML, Yip BHK. Treating subthreshold depression in primary care: A randomized controlled trial of behavioural activation with mindfulness. Annals of Family Medicine. 2018, 16(2): 111-119.
• Liu Z, Sun Y, Zhong B. Mindfulness‐based stress reduction for family carers of people with dementia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2018(8).
• Wong SYS, Zhang DX, Li CCK, Yip BHK, Chan DCC, Ling YM, Lo CS, Woo DM, Sun Y, Ma H, Mak WW, Gao T, Lee TM, Wing Y. Comparing the effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and sleep psycho-education with exercise on chronic insomnia: a randomised controlled trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2017, 86(4): 241-253.

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