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Elisa Chia Jou LIN
Elisa Chia Jou LIN

BSN, MSN, PhD, RN

Research Assistant Professor

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Dr Chia-Jou (Elisa) Lin is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing of the University of Hong Kong. She is a registered nurse with extensive clinical experience in neurosurgical wards and neurological intensive care units.

Dr Lin received her PhD in Nursing from Taipei Medical University and completed visiting scholar training at the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing, The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include delirium, sleep and circadian rhythms, traumatic brain injury recovery, cognitive frailty, and healthy ageing.

Her research focuses on improving delirium care across prevention, detection, management, and recovery, with particular interests in non-pharmacological interventions and cognitive outcomes in older adults. She is a member of the American Delirium Society and is committed to advancing evidence-based delirium care across clinical and community settings.

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  • Aging, neurological disorders, cognitive health
  • Delirium Assessment and Prevention
  • Tool Translation and Validation
  • Sleep Disturbance and Brief Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia (BBTI)
  1. Lin CJ, Lai YH, Fick DM, Chuang LP, Chiang HH, Lee HC, Chiu HY. Association Between Circadian Rhythm Disruption and Delirium in the Acute-Stage Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A 7-Day Actigraphic Study. J Neurotrauma. 2026 Aug;43(15-16):1336-1341. Available from: doi: 10.1177/08977151251410201
  2. Hsiao CC, Lin CJ, Hasan F, Romadlon DS, Traynor V, Hulu SRK, Chiu HY. Comparative efficacy of nonpharmacological interventions for preventing postoperative delirium in hospitalized older adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Age and ageing. 2025 Aug 29;54(9):afaf264. Available from: doi: 10.1093/ageing/afaf264
  3. Hasan F, Prasetya EC, Gordon CJ, Romadlon DS, Chang KM, Bartlett DJ, Lin CJ, Gautama MSN, Izzati N, Chiu HY. Effects of nurse-led, web-based brief behavioral therapy on insomnia severity in patients in the chronic stage of stroke recovery: a preliminary randomized controlled trial. J Clin Sleep Med. 2025 Dec 1;21(12):2031-2040. Available from: doi: 10.5664/jcsm.11856
  4. Lin CJ, Lai YH, Fick DM, Hsiao CC, Chen YC, Huang SW, Chiu HY. Delirium in older adults following traumatic brain injury during the acute stage: Validation of the Chinese version of the confusion assessment method. Appl Nurs Res. 2025 Jun;83:151943. Available from: doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2025.151943
  5. Lai YH, Lin CJ, Su IC, Huang SW, Hsiao CC, Jao YL, Chen PY, Traynor V, Lee CY, Chen TJ, Ho MH, Chiu HY. Clinical Utility and Performance of the Traditional Chinese Version of the 4-As Test for Delirium due to Traumatic Brain Injury. J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry. 2025 Mar-Apr;66(2):130-138. Available from: doi: 10.1016/j.jaclp.2024.12.005
  6. Chang KM, Lin CJ, Jan YW, Gordon CJ, Lee HC, Shih CY, Bartlett DJ, Fan YC, Chiu HY. Effects of nurse-led brief behavioral treatment for insomnia in adults: a randomized controlled trial. J Clin Sleep Med. 2024 Nov 1;20(11):1763-1772. Available from: doi: 10.5664/jcsm.11256
  7. Lin CJ, Fick DM, Traynor V, Chen YC, Hsiang HF, Chiu HY. Comparative Diagnostic Accuracy of Nursing Delirium Screening Scale Versus Confusion Assessment Method for Postoperative Delirium: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Clin Nurs. 2025 Jan;34(1):287-298. Available from: doi: 10.1111/jocn.17467
  8. Rohmah I, Chen YC, Lin CJ, Tsao NH, Chiu HY. Diagnostic accuracy of the pediatric CAM-ICU, pre-school CAM-ICU, Pediatric Anesthesia Emergence Delirium and Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium for detecting delirium in the pediatric intensive care unit: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2024 Jun;82:103606. Available from: doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2023.103606
  9. Liu IH, Lin CJ, Romadlon DS, Lee SC, Huang HC, Chen PY, Chiu HY. Dynamic Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Fatigue Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2024 Jul-Aug 01;39(4):E172-E181. Available from: doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000904
  10. Lin CJ, Su IC, Huang SW, Chen PY, Traynor V, Chang HR, Liu IH, Lai YS, Lee HC, Rolls K, Chiu HY. Delirium Assessment Tools Among Hospitalized Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy. Ageing Res Rev. 2023 Sep;90:102025. Available from: doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2023.102025
  11. Wang BC, Chiu HY, Luh HT, Lin CJ, Hsieh SH, Chen TJ, Wu CR, Chen PY. Comparative efficacy of prophylactic anticonvulsant drugs following traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. PLOS one. 2022 Mar 31;17(3):e0265932. Available from: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265932
  12. Niu SF, Lin CJ, Chen PY, Fan YC, Huang HC, Chiu HY. Immediate and lasting effects of aerobic exercise on the actigraphic sleep parameters of female nurses: A randomized controlled trial. Res Nurs Health. 2021 Jun;44(3):449-457. Available from: doi: 10.1002/nur.22126
Year Scholarship/ Award Institution, Country
2024 Network for Investigation of Delirium,12th Annual Delirium Boot Camp National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institutes of Aging (NIA) / USA
2024 Graduate Student Study Abroad Program Visiting Scholar at The Pennsylvania State University National Science and Technology Council / Taiw
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