Sabrina Kao

Sabrina Kao is an Associate Professor in the Nursing department at the School of Health Sciences and Nursing, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She works in the 335 Health Sciences and Nursing Building, El Paso, Texas, 79968, and can be reached at hkao@utep.edu or (915) 747-7279.

Dr. Kao specializes in psychometric research, focusing on family caregiver burden, cultural diversity in Hispanic families, and family values related to care for chronically ill older adults. She has developed four bilingual (English/Spanish) tools to quantify these phenomena: the Expectations of Filial Piety-Spanish version, Family Loyalty of Children Toward Elderly Relatives, Mutuality Scale, and Family Medication Administration Hassles Scale.

Her work intersects disciplines such as Nursing, Psychometrics, and Hispanic Cultural Studies, with a focus on caregiving stress, informal caregiving, and chronic illness in older adults. No scientific awards or student advising information were provided in the available text.