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  1. Rural-to-urban migration, discrimination experience, and health in China: Evidence from propensity score analysis

    Article • PLOS One, December 2020, PLOS

    Yik Wa Law

  2. Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention: Collective Impact of Engagement with Community Stakeholders

    Article • Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Yik Wa Law

  3. Divorce in Hong Kong SAR, 1999–2011: A Review of 1,208 Family Court Cases

    Article • Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Yik Wa Law

  4. How near-lethal suicide attempters perceived help before attempting suicides

    Article • International Social Work, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Yik Wa Law

  5. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Returns to Education in Hong Kong: A Developed Society with High Economic Inequality

    Article • Social Indicators Research, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yik Wa Law

  6. Suicide rates in China, 2004–2014: comparing data from two sample-based mortality surveillance systems

    Article • BMC Public Health, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yik Wa Law

  7. Intergenerational support, satisfaction with parent–child relationship and elderly parents’ life satisfaction in Hong Kong

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Yik Wa Law

  8. Engagement of vulnerable youths using internet platforms

    Article • PLOS One, December 2017, PLOS

    Yik Wa Law

  9. A Public Health Approach in Responding to the Spread of Helium Suicide in Hong Kong

    Article • Crisis, July 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Yik Wa Law, Dr Feng Chen

  10. Chinese Adolescents’ Meaning-Focused Coping With Prolonged Parent-Child Separation

    Article • Journal of Adolescent Research, March 2017, SAGE Publications

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  11. Evaluation of a Digital Game-Based Learning Program for Enhancing Youth Mental Health: A Structural Equation Modeling of the Program Effectiveness

    Article • JMIR Mental Health, October 2016, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Yik Wa Law

  12. Decomposing change in China's suicide rate, 1990–2010: ageing and urbanisation

    Article • Injury Prevention, June 2016, BMJ

    Yik Wa Law

  13. A Pilot Study on the Efficacy of Volunteer Mentorship for Young Adults With Self-Harm Behaviors Using a Quasi-Experimental Design

    Article • Crisis, June 2016, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Yik Wa Law

  14. Building a typology of young people’s conventional and online political participation: A randomized mobile phone survey in Hong Kong, China

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Yik Wa Law

  15. The Effectiveness and Sustainability of a Universal School-Based Programme for Preventing Depression in Chinese Adolescents: A Follow-Up Study Using Quasi-Experimental Design

    Article • PLOS One, February 2016, PLOS

    Yik Wa Law

  16. Association Between Changes in Risk Factor Status and Suicidal Ideation Incidence and Recovery

    Article • Crisis, November 2015, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Yik Wa Law

  17. Health and Psychosocial Service Use among Suicides without Psychiatric Illness

    Article • Social Work, November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Yik Wa Law

  18. The chronic impact of work on suicides and under-utilization of psychiatric and psychosocial services

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, October 2014, Elsevier

    Yik Wa Law

  19. Profiles of Higher Earning Wives in Hong Kong and the Implications for Marital Satisfaction

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Yik Wa Law

  20. Accessing Suicide-Related Information on the Internet: A Retrospective Observational Study of Search Behavior

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, January 2013, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Yik Wa Law

  21. Effectiveness of a universal school-based programme for preventing depression in Chinese adolescents: A quasi-experimental pilot study

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, December 2012, Elsevier

    Yik Wa Law

  22. A Study of Deliberate Self-Harm and Its Repetition Among Patients Presenting to an Emergency Department

    Article • Crisis, July 2011, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Yik Wa Law

  23. Suicide with psychiatric diagnosis and without utilization of psychiatric service

    Article • BMC Public Health, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yik Wa Law

  24. The Impact of Epidemic Outbreak

    Article • Crisis, March 2010, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Yik Wa Law

  25. Restricting the means of suicide by charcoal burning

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2010, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Yik Wa Law

  26. Population-Attributable Risk of Suicide Conferred by Axis I Psychiatric Diagnoses in a Hong Kong Chinese Population

    Article • Psychiatric Services, August 2009, American Psychiatric Association

    Yik Wa Law

  27. Evaluating the effectiveness of barrier installation for preventing railway suicides in Hong Kong

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, April 2009, Elsevier

    Yik Wa Law

  28. An Integrative Suicide Prevention Program for Visitor Charcoal Burning Suicide and Suicide Pact

    Article • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, February 2009, Wiley

    Yik Wa Law

  29. Suicidality in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong: the role of family and cultural influences

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, October 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yik Wa Law

  30. Suicide among adults aged 30–49: A psychological autopsy study in Hong Kong

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yik Wa Law

  31. Financial Debt and Suicide in Hong Kong SAR

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, December 2007, Wiley

    Yik Wa Law

  32. A Cluster Analysis of the Circumstances of Death in Suicides in Hong Kong

    Article • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, October 2007, Wiley

    Yik Wa Law

  33. Socio-economic and psychological correlates of suicidality among Hong Kong working-age adults: results from a population-based survey

    Article • Psychological Medicine, November 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Yik Wa Law

  34. The effects of a celebrity suicide on suicide rates in Hong Kong

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, July 2006, Elsevier

    Yik Wa Law

  35. Suicide in Hong Kong: a case-control psychological autopsy study

    Article • Psychological Medicine, March 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Yik Wa Law

  36. Social and Economic Burden of Suicides in Hong Kong SAR

    Article • Crisis, July 2005, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Yik Wa Law

  37. Elderly Suicides in Hong Kong: The Role of Volunteer Befrienders

    Article • Crisis, March 1997, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Yik Wa Law