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Research Interests:
  • Life Crises (esp. Violence, Victimization & Suicide)
  • Women’s Health
  • Social and Cultural Issues in Health
  • Educational and Clinical Outcomes Research

Previous Research:

  • Validity/Reliability Study on Victimization Assessment Instrument
  • Woman Abuse in South Africa (ethnographic)
  • Surveys (provincial and national): Violence content in health professions curricula
  • Survey: University student needs and resources during crisis
  • Battered Women and Social Network Support (ethnographic)
  • Effects of video and CD-ROM teaching tools on clinical competence
  • Evaluation of interdisciplinary faculty workshops on teaching violence
  • Effects of a Multi-service Program on Women with Addictions and AIDS (ethnographic)
  • Violence against Women in Kenya: A Feasibility Study (ethnographic)
  • Native Alaskan beliefs about suicide among the elderly (ethnographic)
  • Status of university women regarding equality, etc.

Current Research:

  • Surveys: Interdisciplinary curricula on violence content
  • Evaluating Preventive Interventions with Battered Women (experimental)
  • Validity/reliability studies for crisis worker certification program for individual crisis workers
  • Women in Crisis: Resilience or Despair? (exploratory)

 

 

Lee Ann Hoff

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University of Massachusetts Lowell - One University Avenue - Lowell, Massachusetts  01854 
For More Information: David_Wegman@uml.edu