Ms Sungwon Chang

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Grants/Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Contact Details

Biography

Sungwon Chang is a Lecturer in the School of Biomedical and Health Sciences at UWS. Her main area of teaching is in research methods, biostatistics and epidemiology. She has taught students from a wide range of health-related disciplines from Naturopathy to Medicine at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Sungwon has a background in statistics and has been involved in a number of projects including external consultancy across different health disciplines as a data analyst.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

Teaching

Research Methods
Biostatistics
Epidemiology

Research

Patient reported outcomes
Risk management behaviours for Australian medical practitioners

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Grants/Current Projects

Patient reported outcomes in chronic conditions using heart failure as an exemplar
PhD candidate
Curtin University of Technology, School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Selected Publications

Gholizadeh, L., Salamonson, Y., Davidson, P., Parvan, K., Frost, S., Chang, S., & Hare, D. (2010). Cross-cultural validation of the cardiac depression scale in Iran. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Epub March.

Van Der Sluijs, C., Bensoussan, A., Chang, S., & Barber, R. (2009). A randomized placebo-controlled trial on the effectiveness of a herbal formula to alleviate menopausal vasomotor symptoms. Menopause, 16(2), 336-344.

Johnson, M., Chang, S., Murphy, B., & Payne, S. (2008). A survey of risk management behaviour of Australian general practitioners. Quality in Primary Care, 16(1), 7-15.

Johnson, M., Murphy, B., Payne, S., & Chang, S. (2008). Self-assessment of medico legal risk by doctors: the Know Your Risk version 1 - short form. Australian Health Review, 32(2), 339-348.

Cook, C., Burgess-Limerick, R., & Chang, S. (2000). The prevalence of neck and upper extremity musculoskeletal systems in computer mouse users. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 26(3), 347-356.

Bensoussan, A., Chang, S., Menzies, A., & Talley, N. (2001). Application of the general health status questionnaire SF36 to patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction: Initial validation and validation as measure of change. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25(1), 71-77.

Johnson, M., Cusick, A., & Chang, S. (2001). Home-screen: A short scale to measure fall risk in the home. Public Health Nursing, 18(3), 169-177.

Johnson, M., Marsden, J., Day, E., & Chang, S. (2001). Nursing skill assessment within populations: Scale development and testing. Contemporary Nurse, 10, 46-57.

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