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Doctoral Student
Texas A&M University
Xiao Meng is a doctoral student at Department of Health Behavior, Texas A&M University. She actively engages in a research project ($285,000) funded by Texas A&M University (TAMU) designed to measure the effectiveness of a $10M TAMU internal research seed grant program. Xiao Meng plays a key leadership role in the project regarding the psychometric analysis of three evidence-based scales. She has also conducted cognitive interviews and analyzed both quantitative and qualitative data. The proposed poster has been developed based on the findings from this project.
Xiao Meng’s research interest is focused on developing outcome measures that empower patients, caregivers, and physicians to improve healthcare for persons with disabilities, and on designing technology-based interventions for underserved patients. She collaborates with Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine (TCH/BCM) to promote urgent infantile spasms referrals to increase patients’ outcome through measurement and intervention development. In addition, Xiao Meng takes a leading role in developing a technology-based intervention for a research project ($1M) focused on promoting access to maternal smoking cessation services funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). In this project, Xiao led the team in designing an internet-based smoking cessation intervention for English and Spanish-speaking communities, engaged in the management of a text messaging intervention, trained graduate assistants to disseminate the intervention via internet.