Maichou Lor

About

Maichou Lor, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an Associate Professor and the Helen Denne Schulte Professor of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing. Her overall research program aims to reduce health disparities by improving symptom management and quality of life for patients with communication challenges, particularly those with limited English proficiency (LEP). Her research focuses on exploring the influence of cultural, language, and historical factors on communication, as well as designing and testing culturally and linguistically innovative health assessment approaches for LEP patients using applied informatics. Her areas of focus include health equity, language and interpreting access, health literacy, and the development of culturally and linguistically appropriate health interventions. She also concentrates on health issues affecting minority populations, such as Hmong health, symptom science, palliative care, pain assessment, and aging and care for older adults. Her work involves addressing biological, psychological, and social factors impacting pain reporting, and developing health interventions involving family caregivers to support older adults, including addressing hearing loss among minority older adults. Dr. Lor's contributions are centered on advancing health systems and public health through her research on health disparities and culturally competent care.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Gerontology
• Law
• Audiology
• Medicine

Selected publications

• Advancing Health Disparities Research: The Need to Include Asian American Subgroup Populations

  Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities · 2021-11-17 · 93 citations

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• Scoping review: Definitions and outcomes of patient-provider language concordance in healthcare

  Patient Education and Counseling · 2020-05-24 · 71 citations

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• Refugee‐related trauma patterns and mental health symptoms across three generations of Hmong Americans

  Journal of Traumatic Stress · 2022-02-24 · 16 citations

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  Hmong adults who are Vietnam War refugees have been exposed to refugee-related trauma, but little is known about associations between patterns of trauma exposure and mental health outcomes in Hmong adults. We examined patterns of trauma exposure and mental health symptoms (i.e., somatization, depression, anxiety, and probable posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]) in three generations of Hmong adults (N = 219). Trauma exposure and probable PTSD were measured using the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire…

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• User guide for Social Determinants of Health Survey data in the <i>All of Us</i> Research Program

  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 2024-08-27 · 14 citations

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  OBJECTIVES: Integration of social determinants of health into health outcomes research will allow researchers to study health inequities. The All of Us Research Program has the potential to be a rich source of social determinants of health data. However, user-friendly recommendations for scoring and interpreting the All of Us Social Determinants of Health Survey are needed to return value to communities through advancing researcher competencies in use of the All of Us Research Hub Researcher Wor…

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• Review of Hearing Loss Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the United States

  Western Journal of Nursing Research · 2020 · 12 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  The purpose of this study is to synthesize the literature on hearing loss among racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. A scoping review of primary source articles from 1950 to 2019 was conducted across four databases-CINAHL, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Scopus-to identify peer-reviewed studies. Twenty-two research studies were included. Of the 22 studies, 19 were descriptive, and 3 were interventions. Among the 19 descriptive studies, five themes related to hearing loss were identified: hearing…

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Recent grants

• Information Visualization to Improve Pain Communication Between Providers, Interpreters, and Patients with Limited English Proficiency

  NIH · $480k · 2020–2024

• A Mode of Data Collection for Non-English Speaking Older Adults from Collectivist Cultures

  NIH · $45k · 2016–2017

Frequent coauthors

• Nereida Congost‐Maestre

  University of Alicante

  16 shared

• Roger Brown

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  15 shared

• Theresa A. Koleck

  University of Pittsburgh

  10 shared

• Barbara J. Bowers

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  9 shared

• Debra Saliba

  RAND Corporation

  9 shared

• Elizabeth O’Donnell

  8 shared

• Adriana Arcia

  University of San Diego

  7 shared

• Suzanne Bakken

  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  6 shared

Education

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Nursing

  Columbia University

• MS, Nursing

  University of Wisconsin Madison

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), School of Nursing

  University of Wisconsin Madison

  2017

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