Overview
Dr. Qing Yang is Associate Professor and Biostatistician 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 advanced latent variable models that are widely used in symptom cluster research and intensive longitudinal data analysis that arise from mobile health research.
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See my personal Github website.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Research Professor in the School of Nursing
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2023 - Present
School of Nursing
Recent Publications
Influence of Digital Health Literacy on Blood Pressure and Hemoglobin A 1c in Patients With Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension.
Journal Article Comput Inform Nurs · December 1, 2025 Digital health literacy is emerging as an important element in chronic illness management, yet its relationship with clinical outcomes remains unclear. Utilizing data from the ongoing EXpanding Technology-Enabled, Nurse-Delivered Chronic Disease Care trial ... Full text Link to item CiteHealth Coaching Impacts Stage-Specific Transitions in Multiple Health Behaviors for Patients at High Risk for Coronary Heart Disease and Type 2 Diabetes: A Multigroup Latent Transition Analysis.
Journal Article The Journal of cardiovascular nursing · September 2025 BackgroundMultiple behavior change interventions have gained traction in the behavioral health space. Yet, previous studies on health coaching (HC) focused on testing its effect on stages of change for individual health behaviors.Objective Full text CiteFactors Associated with Perceived Discrimination in Healthcare Among United States Middle-aged and Older Adults.
Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · August 5, 2025 BACKGROUND: Discrimination in healthcare settings impedes quality care, leading to poorer health outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To examine racial differences in perceived discrimination in healthcare settings across age among middle-aged and older adults and identif ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Nurse LEADS: Training in Nurse-LEd models of care ADdressing the Social Determinants of Health
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by National Institute of Nursing Research · 2024 - 2029A Risk Stratification Model for Health and Academic Outcomes in Children with Concussion Based on Novel Symptom Trajectory Typologies
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2028Developing A Novel Combinatorial Therapy for Lethal Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2022 - 2027View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of California, Los Angeles ·
2014
Ph.D.