Biography
Fan Yang is a PhD Student who joined the Primary Care Unit in 2024. He works on public mental health, particularly focusing on children and adolescents. His project aims to examine the associations between early childhood risks and diagnosed mental disorders. Additionally, the relationships among these risk factors, as well as their interactions with other socio-demographic factors, will be explored. Based on these findings, predictive models will be developed to try to enhance the prevention and intervention strategies in public mental health.
Research
Public Mental Health, Mental Health Service, Health Intervention, Children and Adolescent, Network Analysis, Machine Learning
Publications
1. Yang, F., Lodder, P., Fu, M., & Guo, J. (2022). Six-year changes of posttraumatic stress symptoms and depressive symptoms among Chinese earthquake survivors: A network analysis. Journal of affective disorders, 310, 32–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.002
2. Yang, F., Wen, J., Huang, N., Riem, M. M. E., Lodder, P., & Guo, J. (2022). Prevalence and related factors of child posttraumatic stress disorder during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis. European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists, 65(1), e37. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.31
3. Yang, F., Fu, M., Huang, N., Ahmed, F., Shahid, M., Zhang, B., Guo, J., & Lodder, P. (2021). Network analysis of COVID-19-related PTSD symptoms in China: the similarities and differences between the general population and PTSD sub-population. European journal of psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1997181. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2021.1997181
4. Yang, F., Lodder, P., Huang, N., Liu, X., Fu, M., & Guo, J. (2023). Thirty-year trends of depressive disorders in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019: An age-period-cohort analysis. Psychiatry research, 328, 115433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115433
5. Zhang, P., Yang, F., Huang, N., Yan, W., Zhang, B., Zhang, C., Peng, K., & Guo, J. (2023). Assessment of Factors Associated With Mental Well-Being Among Chinese Youths at Individual, School, and Province Levels. JAMA network open, 6(7), e2324025. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.24025
6. Huang, N., Yang, F., Liu, X., Bai, Y., Guo, J., & Riem, M. M. E. (2023). The prevalences, changes, and related factors of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review. Child abuse & neglect, 135, 105992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105992
