Research Assistant Professor
- ST524
- +852 2766 4840
- meiqi.xin@polyu.edu.hk
- Public Health
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Dr Meiqi XIN (Maggie) obtained her bachelor’s degree in preventive medicine from Sun Yat-Sen University. She further received PhD and postdoctoral training in public health at the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr Xin is dedicated to applying theoretical and methodological advances in behavioral medicine to develop effective and scalable health promotion interventions. Her main research areas include health behaviors and health promotion, healthy aging, health communication, health psychology, and epidemiology. She primarily focuses on leveraging persuasive communication techniques to resolve people’s resistance to health messages and thus promote health behavior change. Her PhD thesis is a GRF-funded randomized controlled trial. She led the design, implementation, and evaluation of an internet-based narrative persuasion intervention for improving HIV prevention behaviors. Recently, she obtained a GRF grant as PI and aims to develop a smartphone-based narrative persuasion intervention for influenza vaccination promotion among community-dwelling older adults. Apart from intervention studies, she has rich experience in designing survey studies to explore modifiable psychosocial factors of health/illness behaviors. Her work focuses on understanding how lay people mentally represent and respond to a health threat in the community context.
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Xin, M., Chan, V. W., Kong, A. P., Lau, J. T., Cameron, L. D., Mak, W. W., & Mo, P. K. * (2023). Using the common-sense model to explicate the role of illness representation in self-care behaviours and anxiety symptoms among patients with Type 2 diabetes. Patient Education and Counseling, 107, 107581. [IF=3.5, 19/112 (Q1) in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary]
Xin, M., Coulson, N. S., Jiang, C. L., Sillence, E., Chidgey A., Kwan, N. N. M., Mak, W. W. S., Goggins, W., & Lau, J. T. F., Mo, P. K. H. (2021). Web-based behavioral intervention utilizing narrative persuasion for HIV prevention among Chinese men who have sex with men (HeHe Talks Project): Intervention development. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(9), e22312. [IF=7.4, 3/105 (Q1) in Health Care Sciences & Services]
Xin, M., Lau, J. T. F., & Lau M. (2022). Multi-dimensional factors of participation in a population-wide mass COVID-19 testing program among Hong Kong adults: a population-based randomized survey. Social Science & Medicine, 294, 114692. [IF=5.4, 2/45 (Q1) in Social Sciences, Biomedical]
Xin, M., Mo, P. K. H., Li, J., Liu, X., Jiang, H., Chen, Y., Ma, L., & Lau, J. T. F. (2022). Smartphone non-users experience disproportionately higher psychological distress than their counterparts: mediations via psychosocial resources in a large sample of college students in China. Journal of Affective Disorders, 296, 41-48. [IF=6.6, 23/212 (Q1) in Clinical Neurology]
Xin, M., Luo, S., She, R., Yu, Y., Li, L., Wang, S., ... & Lau, J. T. F. (2020). Negative cognitive and psychological correlates of mandatory quarantine during the initial COVID-19 outbreak in China. American Psychologist, 75(5), 607. [IF=16.4, 5/147 (Q1) in Psychology, Multidisciplinary]
Mo, P. K. H., Xin, M. (co-first), & Lau J. T. F. (2019). Testing the vulnerability and scar model of the relationship between self-concept, social support and anxiety symptoms among children of HIV-infected parents in China: A 3-year longitudinal study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 259, 441-450. [IF=6.6, 23/212 (Q1) in Clinical Neurology]
