Qing Yang
Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing
Dr. Qing Yang is Assistant Professor and faculty statistician at Duke School of Nursing. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Yang’s statistical expertise is longitudinal data analysis and time-to-event data analysis. As a biostatistician, she has extensive experience collaborating with researchers in different therapeutic areas, including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and mental health. Her current research interests are intensive longitudinal data analysis that arise from mobile health related researches, and advanced latent variable models that are widely used in symptom science.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2017
Contact Information
- 307 Trent Dr., Pearson 4130, Durham, NC 27710
- 307 Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27710
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qing.yang@duke.edu
(919) 613-9768
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles 2014
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Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2014 - 2017
- Instructor, Temporary in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing, Duke University 2014
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Using a SMART Design to Optimize PTSD Symptom Management Strategies Among Cancer Survivors awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2024
- Using digital health to improve diet quality among adults at risk for cardiovasclar disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2024
- Targeting Glutaminase Isoforms for Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancer awarded by Department of Defense 2019 - 2022
- Enhancing the Transition from Hospital to Home for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury and Families awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2022
- Advanced symptom burden and quality of life in multiple myeloma patients awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2021
- Symptom Burden and Quality of Life in Multiple Myeloma Patients 2019 - 2021
- Specific and Pervasive Symptoms in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis Using the MURDOCK-MS Dataset: A Secondary Analysis awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2020
- From Episodic to Real-Time Care in Diabetes Self-Management awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2019
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Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Intensive longitudinal data analysis awarded by Center for Nursing Research 2018 - 2019
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Wang, J., Yang, Q., & Wu, B. (2020). Effects of Care Arrangement on the Age of Institutionalization among Community-dwelling Chinese Older Adults. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2020.1726720Full Text
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Gondwe, K. W., Brandon, D., Yang, Q., Malcolm, W. F., Small, M. J., & Holditch-Davis, D. (2020). An Observational Study on Early Dyadic Interactive Behaviors of Mothers With Early-Preterm, Late-Preterm, and Full-Term Infants in Malawi. Adv Neonatal Care, 20(1), 90–99. https://doi.org/10.1097/ANC.0000000000000673Full Text Link to Item
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Gondwe, K. W., Brandon, D., Yang, Q., Malcom, W. F., Small, M. J., & Holditch-Davis, D. (2020). Emotional distress in mothers of early-preterm infants, late-preterm infants, and full-term infants in Malawi. Nurs Outlook, 68(1), 94–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2019.05.013Full Text Link to Item
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Li, Y., He, Y., Butler, W., Xu, L., Chang, Y., Lei, K., … Huang, J. (2019). Targeting cellular heterogeneity with CXCR2 blockade for the treatment of therapy-resistant prostate cancer. Sci Transl Med, 11(521). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aax0428Full Text Link to Item
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Hayat, M. J., Staggs, V. S., Schwartz, T. A., Higgins, M., Azuero, A., Budhathoki, C., … Ye, S. (2019). Moving nursing beyond p < .05. Nursing Outlook, 67(5), 509–510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2019.06.010Full Text
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Moving Nursing Beyond p < .05. (2019). Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 33(3), 217–221. https://doi.org/10.1891/1541-6577.33.3.217Full Text
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Hayat, M. J., Staggs, V. S., Schwartz, T. A., Higgins, M., Azuero, A., Budhathoki, C., … Ye, S. (2019). Moving nursing beyond p < 0.05. Research in Nursing & Health, 42(4), 244–245. https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.21954Full Text
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Ni, Z., He, J., Wang, J.-G., Cao, J., Yang, Q., Wu, B., & Shaw, R. J. (2019). Chinese Physicians' Perspectives on the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Hypertension Guideline: A Mobile App-Based Survey. High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention : The Official Journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension, 26(3), 247–257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40292-019-00321-9Full Text
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Shaw, R. J., Barnes, A., Steinberg, D., Vaughn, J., Diane, A., Levine, E., … Yang, Q. (2019). Enhancing Diabetes Self-Management Through Collection and Visualization of Data From Multiple Mobile Health Technologies: Protocol for a Development and Feasibility Trial. Jmir Res Protoc, 8(6), e13517. https://doi.org/10.2196/13517Full Text Link to Item
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Wood, E., Yang, Q., Steinberg, D., Barnes, A., Vaughn, J., Vorderstrasse, A., … Shaw, R. J. (2019). Diabetes Mobile Care: Aggregating and Visualizing Data from Multiple Mobile Health Technologies. Amia Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc, 2019, 202–211.Link to Item
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Yang, Q., An, X., & Pan, W. (2019). Computing and graphing probability values of pearson distributions: a SAS/IML macro. Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 14, 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13029-019-0076-2Full Text
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Ni, Z., Liu, C., Wu, B., Yang, Q., Douglas, C., & Shaw, R. J. (2018). An mHealth intervention to improve medication adherence among patients with coronary heart disease in China: Development of an intervention. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 5(4), 322–330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2018.09.003Full Text
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Zhang, X., Li, Z., Zhao, X., Xian, Y., Liu, L., Wang, C., … Wang, Y. (2018). Relationship between hospital performance measures and outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke: a prospective cohort study. Bmj Open, 8(7), e020467. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020467Full Text Link to Item
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Bettger, J. P., Nguyen, V. Q. C., Thomas, J. G., Guerrier, T., Yang, Q., Hirsch, M. A., … Niemeier, J. P. (2018). Turning Data Into Information: Opportunities to Advance Rehabilitation Quality, Research, and Policy. Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 99(6), 1226–1231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2017.12.029Full Text Link to Item
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Yang, Q., Fung, W. K., & Li, G. (2018). Sample size determination for jointly testing a cause-specific hazard and the all-cause hazard in the presence of competing risks. Statistics in Medicine, 37(8), 1389–1401. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.7590Full Text Open Access Copy
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Gondwe, K. W., Yang, Q., Brandon, D., Chirwa, E., & Holditch-Davis, D. (2018). Validation of the Chichewa Perinatal PTSD Questionnaire and Chichewa Child Health Worry Scale. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 9, 42–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2018.07.003Full Text
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Kaddoura, M. A., Flint, E. P., Van Dyke, O., Yang, Q., & Chiang, L.-C. (2017). Academic and Demographic Predictors of NCLEX-RN Pass Rates in First- and Second-Degree Accelerated BSN Programs. Journal of Professional Nursing : Official Journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 33(3), 229–240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.09.005Full Text
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Gondwe, K. W., Yang, Q., White-Traut, R., & Holditch-Davis, D. (2017). Maternal Psychological Distress and Mother-Infant Relationship: Multiple-Birth Versus Singleton Preterm Infants. Neonatal Network : Nn, 36(2), 77–88. https://doi.org/10.1891/0730-0832.36.2.77Full Text
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Harris, G. M., Collins-McNeil, J., Yang, Q., Nguyen, V. Q. C., Hirsch, M. A., Rhoads, C. F., … Prvu Bettger, J. (2017). Depression and Functional Status Among African American Stroke Survivors in Inpatient Rehabilitation. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis, 26(1), 116–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2016.08.039Full Text Link to Item
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Kaddoura, M. A., Van Dyke, O., & Yang, Q. (2017). Correlation Between Critical Thinking Skills and National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses Success in Accelerated Bachelor Nursing Students. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 12(1), 3–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2016.08.004Full Text
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Li, Z., Wang, C., Zhao, X., Liu, L., Li, H., Shen, H., … China National Stroke Registries, . (2016). Substantial Progress Yet Significant Opportunity for Improvement in Stroke Care in China. Stroke, 47(11), 2843–2849. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.014143Full Text Link to Item
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Kaddoura, M., Van-Dyke, O., & Yang, Q. (2016). Impact of a concept map teaching approach on nursing students' critical thinking skills. Nursing & Health Sciences, 18(3), 350–354. https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12277Full Text
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Santos, H., Yang, Q., Docherty, S. L., White-Traut, R., & Holditch-Davis, D. (2016). Relationship of Maternal Psychological Distress Classes to Later Mother-Infant Interaction, Home Environment, and Infant Development in Preterm Infants. Research in Nursing & Health, 39(3), 175–186. https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.21719Full Text
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Li, G., & Yang, Q. (2016). Joint Inference for Competing Risks Survival Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 111(515), 1289–1300. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2015.1093942Full Text Open Access Copy
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Fongwa, M. N., Nandy, K., Yang, Q., & Hays, R. D. (2015). The Facilitators of and Barriers to Adherence to Hypertension Treatment Scale. The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 30(6), 484–490. https://doi.org/10.1097/jcn.0000000000000206Full Text
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Sarna, L., Bialous, S. A., Nandy, K., Antonio, A. L. M., & Yang, Q. (2014). Changes in smoking prevalences among health care professionals from 2003 to 2010-2011. Jama, 311(2), 197–199. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.284871Full Text
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An, X., Yang, Q., & Bentler, P. M. (2013). A latent factor linear mixed model for high-dimensional longitudinal data analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 32(24), 4229–4239. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.5825Full Text Open Access Copy
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Sarna, L., Bialous, S. A., Nandy, K., & Yang, Q. (2012). Are quit attempts among U.S. female nurses who smoke different from female smokers in the general population? An analysis of the 2006/2007 tobacco use supplement to the current population survey. Bmc Women’S Health, 12, 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-12-4Full Text Open Access Copy
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Heilemann, M. V., Pieters, H. C., Kehoe, P., & Yang, Q. (2011). Schema therapy, motivational interviewing, and collaborative-mapping as treatment for depression among low income, second generation Latinas. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 42(4), 473–480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.05.001Full Text
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Sarna, L., Bialous, S. A., Sinha, K., Yang, Q., & Wewers, M. E. (2010). Are health care providers still smoking? Data from the 2003 and 2006/2007 Tobacco Use Supplement-Current Population Surveys. Nicotine & Tobacco Research : Official Journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 12(11), 1167–1171. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntq161Full Text
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Liu, J. M., Yang, Q., Pirrallo, R. G., Klein, J. P., & Aufderheide, T. P. (2008). Hospital variability of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival. Prehospital Emergency Care : Official Journal of the National Association of Ems Physicians and the National Association of State Ems Directors, 12(3), 339–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/10903120802101330Full Text
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Vaughn, J., Gollarahalli, S., Shaw, R. J., Docherty, S., Yang, Q., Malhotra, C., … Shah, N. (n.d.). Mobile Health Technology for Pediatric Symptom Monitoring: A Feasibility Study. Nurs Res, 69(2), 142–148. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0000000000000403Full Text Link to Item
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Conference Papers
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Minga, J., Harris, G., Yang, Q., Hirsch, M. A., Nguyen, V. Q. C., & Bettger, J. P. (2019). Association of Right Versus Left Hemisphere Stroke on Rehabilitation Outcomes. In Journal of Womens Health (Vol. 28, pp. 1588–1589). MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC.Link to Item
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Pugh, T., Hirsch, M. A., Nguyen, V. Q. C., Rhoads, C. F., Harris, G. M., Yang, Q., … Bettger, J. A. P. (2019). Depression Characterization and Race Among Stroke Survivors Receiving Inpatient Rehabilitation. In Am J Phys Med Rehabil (Vol. 98, pp. 325–330). United States. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.0000000000001037Full Text Link to Item
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Bettger, J. P., Yang, Q., Chang, J., Thomas, J. G., Guerrier, T., Hirsch, M. A., … Nguyen, V. Q. C. (2018). IS COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT A CONSIDERATION FOR DISCHARGE HOME AFTER STROKE REHABILITATION? In International Journal of Stroke (Vol. 13, pp. 9–9). SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.Link to Item
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Liu, C., Duan, W., Liu, L., Wang, Y., Pan, Y., Meng, X., … Bettger, J. P. (2018). Rehabilitation Provider Type Influences Functional Outcome and Survival of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients With Severe Neurological Deficits: Findings From the China National Stroke Registry II. In Stroke (Vol. 49). Los Angeles, CA: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS.Link to Item
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Zixiao, L., Yilong, W., Ying, X., Linzi, L., Xingquan, Z., Xiaolei, B., … Yongjun, W. (2016). Relationship Between Hospital Process Performance and Mortality Among Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke. In Stroke (Vol. 47).Link to Item
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Wang, H., Wan, L., Yang, Q., Hanshew, W. E., Davis, R. D., & Chen, D. (2015). Impact of Repeated Mismatch Human Leukocyte Antigen on the Outcome of Lung Retransplantation. In The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (Vol. 34, pp. S47–S47). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2015.01.114Full Text
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
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