Demy Wang
- Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
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PhD - Duke University - Nursing - 2026
Aging and palliative care; family caregiving; mental health; healthcare decision-making; measurement and scale development; technology-enabled interventions.
Measurement and scale development; quantitative research methods.
Wang, D., Yang, Q., Cary, M. P. Jr., Gray, T. F., & Hendrix, C. C. (2026). Development and initial testing of Caregiver Motivation Appraisal Scale. Research in Gerontological Nursing. [Accepted for publication]
Wang, D., Rushton, S., Ledbetter, L., Graton, M., Ramos, K., Cary, M. P. Jr., Gray, T. F., & Hendrix, C. C. (2025). Understanding the multidimensionality of caregiving appraisal: A concept analysis. Nursing Forum, 2025(1), 6087774.
Akeke, O. F., Wang, D., Ejem, D., Johnson, K. S., Docherty, S. L., Cox, C. E., Dempsey, K., Fish, L., Sodhi, S., Shenoy, D., Charan, N., Bah, M. S., & Ashana, D. C. (2025). A descriptive qualitative study of religion and spirituality's role in critical illness decision making among Black and White family caregivers. CHEST Critical Care, 100113.
Cary, M. P., Zink, A., Wei, S., Olson, A., Yan, M., Senior, R., Bessias, S., Gadhoumi, K., Jean-Pierre, G., Wang, D., Ledbetter, L. S., Economou-Zavlanos, N. J., Obermeyer, Z., & Pencina, M. J. (2023). Mitigating racial and ethnic bias and advancing health equity in clinical algorithms in healthcare: A scoping review. Health Affairs.
Brewster, G., Wang, D., McPhillips, M. V., & Yang, I. (2021). Sleep disturbances of family caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: A systematic review. Clinical Gerontologist.