Sing Lee

Datos Biográficos

ID3583595
NOMBRESing Lee
NOMBRESSing
APELLIDOLee
FIRMALEE S
AFILIACIONESChinese University of Hong Kong
ORCID0000-0002-9377-7390
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS60
TOTAL DE CITAS501
TOTAL COMO AUTOR60
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1993
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H8

  • Healing Through Empowerment and Active Listening

    Open AccessXiaoli Zhu, Sing Lee et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2025

    BACKGROUND: The rising prevalence of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) highlights the need for effective self-care interventions. Despite strong evidence supporting their effectiveness, patient engagement, uptake, and integration into routine care remain limited. Co-design approaches can enhance the relevance and adoption of interventions but are underutilized in DFU management. OBJECTIVES: This study outlines the development of Healing through Empower…

  • Measuring social desirability bias in a multi-ethnic cohort sample

    Open AccessWen Lin Teh, Edimansyah Abdin et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    The construct of social desirability bias was fundamentally different in a multicultural context than previously understood. Only a small proportion of variance of self-report lifestyle scores was explained by social desirability, thus providing support for data integrity

  • Sources of information on diabetes and its demographic correlates

    Open AccessMythily Subramaniam, Jue Hua Lau et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2022

    Diabetes is a major public health concern in Singapore, and the Singapore Government declared a ‘War on Diabetes’, which included a nationwide public health campaign. It is important to identify what sources of diabetes information reach the general population, whether this differs by socio-demographic characteristics and if the sources of information influence knowledge of diabetes to aid the successful dissemination of health information. Two t…

  • Acceptance of healthy lifestyle nudges in the general population of Singapore

    Open AccessYeow Wee Brian Tan, Edward Ryan Tan et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Individuals prefer less intrusive approaches for promoting healthy lifestyle. Ethnicity and lifestyle behaviours are associated with acceptance of nudges and should be taken into consideration during the formulation and implementation of behaviourally informed health policies

  • A cross-sectional study on the perceived barriers to physical activity and their associations with domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviour

    Open AccessYen Sin Koh, P V AshaRani et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Individuals can be motivated to overcome internal barriers (fatigue, lack of time, cost and age) through social support and emphasis on exercise benefits. External barriers (weather and lack of pavements or parks) can be reduced by raising awareness of existing infrastructure. Sedentary behaviour can be improved by implementing workplace measures, such as reducing the time spent sitting

  • Health Literacy and Diabetes Knowledge

    Open AccessP V AshaRani, Jue Hua Lau et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Health literacy is a key determinant of the public health and health climate of the nation. This study examined the functional health literacy of the nation, factors associated with health literacy, and its relationship with diabetes recognition. This cross-sectional survey recruited participants (N = 2895) who were 18 years and above from a population registry through disproportionate stratified sampling. The Brief Health Literacy Screen and oth…

  • The Prevalence and Correlates of Disability in Singapore

    Open AccessMythily Subramaniam, Yen Sin Koh et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Although this prevalence is lower than other countries, it is a significant finding in terms of actual numbers and impact at both the individual and the societal levels. Our findings also highlight the need to strengthen health services and preventive interventions targeting older adults and those who are physically inactive to reduce the burden of disability in these groups

  • The prevalence of multimorbidity in primary care

    Open AccessSing Lee, Sabrina Lee et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    MM3+ was better at identifying a smaller number of patients with multimorbidity requiring higher needs compared to MM2+. Using the Fortin list seemed more appropriate than the CDMP list because the chronic conditions in Fortin's list were more commonly seen in primary care. A consistent definition of multimorbidity will help researchers and clinicians to understand the epidemiology of multimorbidity better

  • Prevalence and patterns of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and their association with health-related quality of life within a multi-ethnic Asian population

    Open AccessJue Hua Lau, Asharani Nair et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    About 17% of the population did not meet the minimum requirements for physical activity, while around half of the population spent a considerable time being sedentary. As insufficient physical activity was associated with poorer physical HRQoL, policymakers should promote moderate physical activity and encouraging the breaking up of prolonged sedentary periods within the middle- and high-income groups, especially at the workplace. Increased leisu…

  • Community case managers' challenges collaborating with primary care when managing complex patients in the community

    Open AccessGilbert Yeo, Predeebha Kannan et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    Community case managers (CCMs) play a crucial role in the continuity of care for complex patients in the community. However, they are often considered as non-members of the healthcare team and not actively engaged by the primary care team because of the unique landscape of social services in Singapore. Given that these two distinct professional groups had minimal collaboration previously, integrating CCMs as partners of patient care within the pr…

  • Patterns of physical activity and health-related quality of life amongst patients with multimorbidity in a multi-ethnic Asian population

    Open AccessMythily Subramaniam, Yunjue Zhang et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The low levels of physical activity among patients with multimorbidity, and its association with overweight status and poorer HRQoL emphasizes the importance of increasing physical activity in this population. Family physicians treating patients with chronic diseases need to continue encouraging and helping individuals to initiate and maintain appropriate physical activity levels

  • The epidemiology of drug use disorders cross-nationally

    Open AccessLouisa Degenhardt, Chrianna Bharat et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2019

  • Deep China

    Sing Lee, Arthur Kleinman et al.BOOKDeep China2019Citada por: 57

    Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays…

  • Treatment gap for anxiety disorders is global

    Open AccessJordi Alonso, Zhaorui Liu et al.ARTICLEDepression and Anxiety2018

    BACKGROUND: Anxiety disorders are a major cause of burden of disease. Treatment gaps have been described, but a worldwide evaluation is lacking. We estimated, among individuals with a 12-month DSM-IV (where DSM is Diagnostic Statistical Manual) anxiety disorder in 21 countries, the proportion who (i) perceived a need for treatment; (ii) received any treatment; and (iii) received possibly adequate treatment. METHODS: Data from 23 community surveys…

  • The cross-national epidemiology of social anxiety disorder

    Open AccessWHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators, Dan J Stein et al.ARTICLEBMC Medicine2017

    BACKGROUND: There is evidence that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a prevalent and disabling disorder. However, most of the available data on the epidemiology of this condition originate from high income countries in the West. The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative provides an opportunity to investigate the prevalence, course, impairment, socio-demographic correlates, comorbidity, and treatment of this condition across a range of high, …

  • The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Open Accesson behalf of the WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators, John Fayyad et…ARTICLEADHD Attention Deficit and…2017

  • Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries

    Open AccessGraham Thornicroft, Somnath Chatterji et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Psychiatry2017

    BACKGROUND: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. AIMS: To examine the: (a) 12-month prevalence of DSM-IV MDD; (b) proportion aware that they have a problem needing treatment and who want care; (c) proportion of the latter receiving treatment; and (d) proportion of such treatment meeting minimal standards. METHOD: Representative community household surveys from 21 countries as part of the World Health Organiz…

  • Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Open AccessR C Kessler, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatol…2017

    Background: Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) onset-persistence is thought to vary significantly by trauma type, most epidemiological surveys are incapable of assessing this because they evaluate lifetime PTSD only for traumas nominated by respondents as their ‘worst.’Objective: To review research on associations of trauma type with PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys, a series of epidemiological surveys that obtained r…

  • A community-based study of the relationship between somatic and psychological distress in Hong Kong

    Open AccessSing Lee, Candi Mc Leung et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2015Referencias: 48

    Although the predominantly somatic presentation of distress has been used to explain low rates of emotional illnesses and health service use in Chinese communities, this concept of somatization has not been examined by concurrently studying the profile of somatically and psychologically distressed Chinese individuals. A random population-based sample of 3014 adults underwent a structured telephone interview that examined their sociodemographic ch…

  • What matters most

    Open AccessLawrence Hsin Yang, Fang-Pei Chen et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2014Citada por: 41Referencias: 31

  • Empowering caregivers

    Open AccessMarcus Yu Lung Chiu, Grace F W Wei et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2013

    BACKGROUND: Education and support for caregivers is lacking in Asia and the peer-led FamilyLink Education Programme (FLEP) is one of the few provisions to address this service gap. This study aims to evaluate quantitatively its efficacy in reducing subjective burdens and empowering the participants. METHOD: One hundred and nine caregiver participants in three Asian cities were successfully surveyed at pre-intervention, post-intervention and six-m…

  • Gastrointestinal dysfunction in Chinese patients with fat-phobic and nonfat-phobic anorexia nervosa

    Open AccessSing Lee, King Lam Ng et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2012Referencias: 31

    Although gastrointestinal and other somatic symptoms are common in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), and a growing cross-national literature indicates that not all anorexic patients exhibit the core diagnostic symptom of fat phobia, the relationship between somatic symptoms and anorexic illness remains unclear. Our objective was to evaluate gastrointestinal dysfunction (GD) in Chinese patients with fat phobic (FP) and nonfat phobic (NFP) anore…

  • Prevalence and Correlates of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative

    Kathleen R Merikangas, Robert Jin et al.ARTICLEArchives of General Psychiatry2011

    CONTEXT: There is limited information on the prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in international population-based studies using common methods. OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence, impact, patterns of comorbidity, and patterns of service utilization for bipolar spectrum disorder (BPS) in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey Initiative. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional, face-to-face, hou…

  • Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Guilherme Borges, Matthew K Nock et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Clinical Psychiatry2010

    OBJECTIVE: Although suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, clinicians and researchers lack a data-driven method to assess the risk of suicide attempts. This study reports the results of an analysis of a large cross-national epidemiologic survey database that estimates the 12-month prevalence of suicidal behaviors, identifies risk factors for suicide attempts, and combines these factors to create a risk index for 12-month suicide attempts …

  • Deep China

    Arthur Kleinman, Y Yan et al.