Dr. CHAN Ngan Yin Rachel
Research Assistant Professor
Research Assistant Professor
陳銀燕博士
MPhil(CUHK), PhD (HKU)
Fax: (852) 2647-5321
Email: rachel.chan@cuhk.edu.hk
ORCID: 0000-0002-3009-3565
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Children and adolescent sleep problems
- Treatment and prevention of sleep disorders
- Sleep and psychopathology
AWARDS
- Travel Grant Award for Young Investigators in 2nd Congress of Asian Society of Sleep Medicine, Seoul, Korea, 2018
- International Pediatric Sleep Association Online Young or New Investigator Poster Award, 2021
- 3rd Congress of Asian Society of Sleep Medicine Young Investigator Award, 2021
TRAINING
- Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers
CURRENT PROJECTS
- Title: Advancing adolescent bedtime by using motivational interviewing and text reminders – A randomized controlled trial. Project period: 1/7/2018 – 30/6/2020
Funding source: Health and Medical Research Fund
Position: PI - Title: Effects of group-based and digitally delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) in youth: a randomised controlled trial.
Project period: 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2022
Funding source: GRF
Position: Co-I
- Title: Randomised controlled study to examine the efficacy of sleep education on extending sleep duration of preschool children.
Project period: 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2022
Funding source: GRF
Position: Co-I - Title: Prevention of insomnia in at-risk youth: A randomized controlled trial comparing cognitive behavioral prevention program for insomnia with active control condition.
Study period: 01/01/2022 -31/12-2023
Funding source: GRF
Capacity: PI - Title: understanding the relationship between stress, resilience and sleep problems in adolescents
Study period: 30/06/2021 – 29/06/2022
Funding source: Direct grant
Capacity: PI
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Chen SJ, Zhang J, Li XS, Tsang CC, Chan KCC, Au CT, Li AM, Kong APS, Wing YK*, Chan NY.
The trajectories and associations of eveningness and insomnia with daytime sleepiness, depression and suicidal ideation in adolescents: a 3-year longitudinal study.
Journal of Affective Disorder. 2021, 294:533-542. - Chan NY, Chan JWY, Li SX, Wing YK.
Non-pharmacological approaches for management of insomnia.
Neurotherapeutics, 18:32-43. - Chan NY, Li SX, Zhang J, Lam SP, Kwok APL, YU MWM, Chan JWY, Li AM, Morin CM, Wing YK.
A prevention program for insomnia in at-risk adolescents: a randomized controlled study.
Pediatrics. 2021;147(3):e2020006833 - Chan NY, Zhang J, Tsang CC, Li AM, Chan JWY, Wing YK, Li SX.
The associations of insomnia symptoms and chronotype with daytime sleepiness, mood symptoms and suicide risk in adolescents.
Sleep Medicine 2020;74:124-31. - Liu Y, Zhang J, Li SX, Chan NY, Yu MWM, Lam SP, Chan JWY, Li AM, Wing YK.
Excessive daytime sleepiness among children and adolescents: prevalence, correlates, and pubertal effects.
Sleep Medicine. 2019; 53: 1-8. - Li SX, Chan NY, Man Yu MW, Lam SP, Zhang J, Yan Chan JW, Li AM, Wing YK.
Eveningness chronotype, insomnia symptoms, and emotional and behavioural problems in adolescents.
Sleep Medicine. 2018; 47: 93-9 - Chan NY, Zhang J, Yu MWM, Lam SP, Li SX, Kong APS, Li AM, Wing YK.
Impact of a modest delay in school start time in Hong Kong school adolescents.
Sleep Medicine. 2017; 30: 164-70. - Zhang J, Chan NY, Lam SP, Li SX, Liu Y, Chan JW, Kong AP, Ma RC, Chan KC, Li AM, Wing YK.
Emergence of Sex Differences in Insomnia Symptoms in Adolescents: A Large-Scale School-Based Study.
Sleep. 2015; 39: 1563-70. - Chan NY, Lam SP, Zhang J, Yu MWM, Li SX, Li AM, & Wing YK.
Sleep education in Hong Kong.
Sleep Biological Rhythm. 2015; 14: 21-5. - Wing YK, Chan NY, Yu MWM, Lam SP, Zhang J, Li SX, Kong AP, Li AM.
A school-based sleep education program for adolescents: a cluster randomized trial.
Pediatrics. 2015; 13: e635-43.
