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Associate Professor Chur-Hansen is a psychologist whose interests lie in the fields of medical education and health psychology.
Professional Affiliations:
Registered Psychologist
Member of the Australian Psychological Society and Chairperson of the South Australian Branch of the College of Health Psychologists
Member, the Association for the Study of Medical Education, the Association for the Study of Health Professions and the Higher Education Research and Development Society
Fellow, Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia
Teaching:
Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Person, Culture and Medicine and Emotion, Culture and Medicine
Co-ordinator of research stream, Master of Psychology(Health)
Research:
Quantitative and qualitative research into aspects of medical education, particularly the relationship between academic and clinical performance and language and cultural background.
Health psychology, particularly the relationship of gender to health care.
Supervision of Honours, Masters and PhD students.
Supervision of fourth year undergraduate projects in medical education and health psychology.
Key Publications:
Smith, B., Chur Hansen, A., Neale, A., & Symon, J. (In press) Quality of life and cholinesterase inhibitors: a qualitative study of Alzheimer Disease patients and their carers. Australasian Psychiatry
Chur Hansen, A., Winefield, H., & Beckwith, M. (In press) Companion animals for elderly women:a qualitative study of the role of attachment. Qualitative Research in Psychology
Chur-Hansen, A., Caruso, J., Sumpowthong, K., & Turnbull, D. 2006. Cross-cultural and indigenous issues on psychology. Frenchs Forest: Pearson, Prentice-Hall.
Koopowitz, L., Chur-Hansen, A., Reid, S. & Blashki, M., 2003. The subjective experience of patients who received electroconvulsive therapy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 37, 49-54.
Chur-Hansen, 2002. Preferences for female and male nurses; the role of age, gender and previous experience - 1984 to 2000. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 37, 192-198.
Declaraton of Financial Interest: None to declare
Contact Details:
Room 4-32, Level 4, Eleanor Harrald Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Telephone: +61 8 8222 5785 or +61 8 8222 5141
Facsimile: +61 8 8222 2865
Email: anna.churhansen@adelaide.edu.au
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