Doctoral student, Ya-Ching Huang, receives awards and financial support
Ya-Ching Huang, MSN, RN, and School of Nursing doctoral student, won first place in the Public Health Nursing Section student poster competition at the American Public Health Association annual conference.
Her poster was titled Access to Diabetes Care for Patients at a FQHC System in Central Texas (PDF). Ya-Ching also received the Frances Fowler Wallace Memorial Award for Mental Health Dissertation Research, which is available to eligible doctoral candidates at UT Austin. The award is given annually by the Hogg Foundation. Awardees receive a $1,500 scholarship to help cover research-related expenses. Huang’s research proposal is titled “The Impact of Illness Perception, Diabetes Management Self-Efficacy, and Mental Distress on Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management among Chinese Americans.”
Read Huang’s interview How Cultural Perception Affects Diabetes Management, which was published on the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health website.