Shufang Sun Source Confirmed

Affiliation confirmed via AI analysis of OpenAlex, ORCID, and web sources.

High Impact

Researcher

John Brown University

faculty

29 h-index 112 pubs 3,103 cited

Research Areas

HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions Mental Health Treatment and Access HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Digital Mental Health Interventions Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Links

ORCID

Is this your profile? Verify and claim your profile

OverviewAI-generated summary

Shufang Sun's work encompasses a broad range of public health concerns, with a focus on mental health treatment and access, particularly through digital interventions. Sun's research addresses HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ health, and tuberculosis, alongside investigations into anxiety, depression, and related cognitive processes. She leverages mindfulness and compassion-based interventions, as evidenced by a systematic review of 44 meta-analyses, and explores the efficacy of mobile phone-based interventions for mental health, synthesizing data from 14 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. Recent work has also examined the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including quarantine-related distress among university students in China and factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine trial participation.

Metrics

  • h-index: 29
  • Publications: 112
  • Citations: 3,103

Selected Publications

  • Enhancing Teacher Gatekeeper Skills for Suicide: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial Among School-Based Lay People in China (2024) DOI
  • Data integrity in an online world: demonstration of multimodal bot screening tools and considerations for preserving data integrity in two online social and behavioral research studies with marginalized populations (2024) DOI
  • Mental and Physical Health Impacts of Mindfulness Training for College Undergraduates: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials (2023) DOI
  • “We don’t have a template to follow”: Sexual identity development and its facilitative factors among sexual minority men in the context of China. (2022) DOI
  • Addressing the biological embedding of early life adversities (ELA) among adults through mindfulness: Proposed mechanisms and review of converging evidence (2022) DOI
  • Mobile phone-based interventions for mental health-A systematic meta-review of 14 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (2021) DOI
  • A mindfulness-based mobile health (mHealth) intervention among psychologically distressed university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial. (2021) DOI
  • Interest in COVID-19 vaccine trials participation among young adults in China: Willingness, reasons for hesitancy, and demographic and psychosocial determinants (2021) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Eric B. Loucks John Brown University 10 shared publications Arryn A. Guy John Brown University 4 shared publications Nicholas Zaller University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 4 shared publications Frances B. Saadeh John Brown University 3 shared publications David G. Zelaya John Brown University 3 shared publications Christopher W. Kahler John Brown University 2 shared publications Matthew James Murphy John Brown University 2 shared publications Elisabeth A. George John Brown University 1 shared publication

Similar Researchers

Based on overlapping research topics

Mofan Gu University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Mental Health Treatment and Access HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Good match
Krishen D. Samuel University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Mental Health Treatment and Access
Good match
Matthew Hayhurst University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Good match
Ethan Moitra John Brown University
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Good match
S. Alexandra Marshall University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Good match
M. Barton Laws University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Good match