Roger Ng
Biographic Data
| ID | 6615899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Ng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Ng |
| SIGNATURE | NG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kowloon Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2808-992X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
China’s mental health support in response to Covid-19
The continued spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a serious impact on everyone across the globe, both physically and psychologically. In addition to proactive measures addressing physical survival needs and health protection, China has launched a mental health support system to cope with the widespread psychological stress during the pandemic and its aftermath. In this debate, the authors attempted to depict and reflect upon the…
Prisoner mental health care for people with intellectual disability
Persons with intellectual disabilities are likely to be misdiagnosed and end up in prisons for petty offences. The rates of criminal behaviours will be influenced by social and cultural factors. What is seen as illegal behaviour in one society may not be so in another. Cultures also play a major and significant role in defining deviant behaviour and defining what is abnormal. Thus relationship between intellectual disability and criminal behaviou…
Health promotion in people with intellectual disabilities
As has been well described, intellectual disability carries significant psychiatric and physical morbidity with it. Mental health and physical health strongly influence each other, thus any attempts at health promotion require careful consideration. Thus any programmes for health promotion for both aspects in persons with intellectual disability have to be developed in an easy-to-understand manner so that families, their carers and individuals th…
Cross-Validating Chinese Language Mental Health Recovery Measures in Hong Kong
Objectives: Promoting recovery in mental health services is hampered by a shortage of reliable and valid measures, particularly in Hong Kong. We seek to cross validate two Chinese language measures of recovery and one of recovery-promoting environments. Method: A cross-sectional survey of people recovering from early episode psychosis ( n = 121) and family members ( n = 49) was taken. Two recovery measures, the Mental Health Recovery Measure and …
The uncut jade
BACKGROUND: Service user participation in direct service provision and evaluation has been developing in the western world in the past 20 years. However, this recovery-based care model is relatively new in Asia. AIM: To understand the views and perceptions of the service users and of psychiatric nurses about the recruitment of peer specialists in a regional psychiatric unit in Hong Kong. METHOD: A qualitative study using probe questions to unders…
Relationship of cognitions and symptoms of agoraphobia in Hong Kong Chinese
Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore and describe the subjective experiences of agoraphobia in Hong Kong Chinese. Method: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study, using a combined qualitative–quantitative approach. In the qualitative part, two focus groups were held with nine participants suffering from DSM-IV panic disorder with agoraphobia, followed up in a regional hospital in Hong Kong. The audiotaped material was transcribed…
What Does Recovery From Schizophrenia Mean? Perceptions of Medical Students and Trainee Psychiatrists
Background: The attitudes of medical professionals towards recovery from schizophrenia are key in defining the therapeutic encounter and may change as they move through their medical career. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on three focus groups of medical students and trainee psychiatrists in Hong Kong. Both held pessimistic attitudes towards recovery in schizophrenia. Four major categories and one central theme emerged, with lit…
What does recovery from psychosis mean? Perceptions of young first-episode patients
Background: This study explored the experience of first-episode psychosis from the patients’ perspective and the meanings they attach to the illness and their recovery. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on a focus group. Audio tapes were transcribed verbatim and three researchers participated in a content analysis that identified four major themes: the meaning of psychosis and psychotic experience; the meaning of recovery; stigma; …
What Does Recovery From Schizophrenia Mean? Perceptions of Long-Term Patients
Background: The study investigated the meaning of recovery to eight people with chronic schizophrenia. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on a 3-hour focus group. The material was transcribed and analysed into 18 subcategories and 4 categories; namely recovery as a multi-dimensional construct, the relationship of medication to recovery, a sense of hopelessness and helplessness about recovery, factors that promoted recovery. Discussi…
What does recovery from schizophrenia mean? Perceptions of psychiatrists
This study investigated the meaning of recovery in schizophrenia in a group of trainee psychiatrists in Hong Kong. A qualitative methodology was used based on two, three-hour focus groups. A number of major categories emerged from this group of trainee psychiatrists, including the possibility of full recovery, indefinite use of antipsychotic medication, personal recovery in the presence of persistent symptoms and risk of patients to themselves an…
Cross-Validating Chinese Language Mental Health Recovery Measures in Hong Kong
Objectives: Promoting recovery in mental health services is hampered by a shortage of reliable and valid measures, particularly in Hong Kong. We seek to cross validate two Chinese language measures of recovery and one of recovery-promoting environments. Method: A cross-sectional survey of people recovering from early episode psychosis ( n = 121) and family members ( n = 49) was taken. Two recovery measures, the Mental Health Recovery Measure and …
What Does Recovery From Schizophrenia Mean? Perceptions of Long-Term Patients
Background: The study investigated the meaning of recovery to eight people with chronic schizophrenia. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on a 3-hour focus group. The material was transcribed and analysed into 18 subcategories and 4 categories; namely recovery as a multi-dimensional construct, the relationship of medication to recovery, a sense of hopelessness and helplessness about recovery, factors that promoted recovery. Discussi…
What does recovery from schizophrenia mean? Perceptions of psychiatrists
This study investigated the meaning of recovery in schizophrenia in a group of trainee psychiatrists in Hong Kong. A qualitative methodology was used based on two, three-hour focus groups. A number of major categories emerged from this group of trainee psychiatrists, including the possibility of full recovery, indefinite use of antipsychotic medication, personal recovery in the presence of persistent symptoms and risk of patients to themselves an…
What Does Recovery From Schizophrenia Mean? Perceptions of Medical Students and Trainee Psychiatrists
Background: The attitudes of medical professionals towards recovery from schizophrenia are key in defining the therapeutic encounter and may change as they move through their medical career. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on three focus groups of medical students and trainee psychiatrists in Hong Kong. Both held pessimistic attitudes towards recovery in schizophrenia. Four major categories and one central theme emerged, with lit…
What does recovery from psychosis mean? Perceptions of young first-episode patients
Background: This study explored the experience of first-episode psychosis from the patients’ perspective and the meanings they attach to the illness and their recovery. Method: A qualitative methodology was used based on a focus group. Audio tapes were transcribed verbatim and three researchers participated in a content analysis that identified four major themes: the meaning of psychosis and psychotic experience; the meaning of recovery; stigma; …
Relationship of cognitions and symptoms of agoraphobia in Hong Kong Chinese
Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore and describe the subjective experiences of agoraphobia in Hong Kong Chinese. Method: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study, using a combined qualitative–quantitative approach. In the qualitative part, two focus groups were held with nine participants suffering from DSM-IV panic disorder with agoraphobia, followed up in a regional hospital in Hong Kong. The audiotaped material was transcribed…
The uncut jade
BACKGROUND: Service user participation in direct service provision and evaluation has been developing in the western world in the past 20 years. However, this recovery-based care model is relatively new in Asia. AIM: To understand the views and perceptions of the service users and of psychiatric nurses about the recruitment of peer specialists in a regional psychiatric unit in Hong Kong. METHOD: A qualitative study using probe questions to unders…
Prisoner mental health care for people with intellectual disability
Persons with intellectual disabilities are likely to be misdiagnosed and end up in prisons for petty offences. The rates of criminal behaviours will be influenced by social and cultural factors. What is seen as illegal behaviour in one society may not be so in another. Cultures also play a major and significant role in defining deviant behaviour and defining what is abnormal. Thus relationship between intellectual disability and criminal behaviou…
Health promotion in people with intellectual disabilities
As has been well described, intellectual disability carries significant psychiatric and physical morbidity with it. Mental health and physical health strongly influence each other, thus any attempts at health promotion require careful consideration. Thus any programmes for health promotion for both aspects in persons with intellectual disability have to be developed in an easy-to-understand manner so that families, their carers and individuals th…
Cross-Validating Chinese Language Mental Health Recovery Measures in Hong Kong
Objectives: Promoting recovery in mental health services is hampered by a shortage of reliable and valid measures, particularly in Hong Kong. We seek to cross validate two Chinese language measures of recovery and one of recovery-promoting environments. Method: A cross-sectional survey of people recovering from early episode psychosis ( n = 121) and family members ( n = 49) was taken. Two recovery measures, the Mental Health Recovery Measure and …
China’s mental health support in response to Covid-19
The continued spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a serious impact on everyone across the globe, both physically and psychologically. In addition to proactive measures addressing physical survival needs and health protection, China has launched a mental health support system to cope with the widespread psychological stress during the pandemic and its aftermath. In this debate, the authors attempted to depict and reflect upon the…
Psychiatry (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 works) · Focus group (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (5 works) · Perception (4 works)