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Students

The following is a list of past and present students who have been supervised by a ALSWH investigator and whose project consisted of an analysis of ALSWH data.

Doctor of Philosophy
Current Research Projects by PhD students

Mr Steven Bowe: Adjusting for death in longitudinal studies.
Mrs Catherine Chojenta: Prevalence, antecedents and efficacy of treatments of postnatal depression in Australia.
Ms Leah Collins: Predicting depression, positive psychological outcomes and quality of life in Australian women with chronic illness.
Ms Leanne Fray: Children's structured leisure activities: Three generations of change.
Ms Lisa Hallsworth: Psychological adjustment after breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Ms Afsoon Hassani Mehraban: A functional model of fall risk.
Ms Lindy Humphreyes-Reid: Are cardiac conditions in older women managed appropriately?
Ms Alexis Hure: Comparison of Australian women's dietary intake during pregnancy and non-pregnancy.
Ms Melissa Johnstone: Longitudinal aspirations of young women.
Ms Rosemary Korda: Socio-economic inequalities in women's use of health care services in Australia.
 Ms Beverley Lloyd: Young women, multiple roles and mental health: An investigation of epidemiological and lay perspectives.
Ms Liane McDermott: Cigarette smoking among young women.
Ms Heather McKay: Childlessness and the role of choice in childless women's reproductive outcomes.
Ms Rosie Mooney: Declining fertility rates and the normalisation of technological control of reproduction among young Australian women.
Ms Siobhan O'Dwyer: Physical activity and perceived cognitive decline in older women.
 Ms Ingrid Rowlands: Coping with miscarriage: Young women's experiences.
Ms Nadine Smith: Mental health: A longitudinal analysis of the self-reported mental health of Australian women

Completed Research Projects by PhD students

Dr Anne Young: General practitioner utilisation among women in Australia.
Dr Amanda Patterson: Iron deficiency in women of childbearing age.
Dr Kylie Ball: Disordered eating, psychological stress and coping in young women.
Ms Cate France: Battling the black dog: An exploration of the strategies used by young Australian women coping with depression.
Dr Brendan Goodger: Social support, health status and health care utilisation in women aged 70-76 years.
Dr Pauline Chiarelli: Female urinary incontinence in Australia: prevalence and prevention in postpartum women.
Dr Sue Outram: Experiences of mid-aged women in NSW seeking help for psychological distress.
Dr Deborah Loxton: Domestic abuse and health: Quantitative and qualitative investigations among mid-aged Australian women.
Dr Sandra Bell: Stress, health behaviours and the transition to adulthood among young women.
Dr Glennys Parker: Abused Mid-aged Women in Australia: Experiences, Well-being, and Ways of Coping.
Ms Catherine Regan: Use of health care services by elderly women with complex health needs.
Dr Lauren Williams: Factors affecting weight change in mid-aged women.
Dr Esben Strodl: Psychological factors associated with the frequency of angina and the role of mediating variables.
Dr Melissa Graham: Treatments for Menstrual Symptoms: An Epidemiological Investigation.
Dr Lauren Miller-Lewis: Psychosocial predictors of pregnancy risk-taking, pregnancy, and childbearing in Australian youth.
Dr Emma Harley: Social support in later life: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of inter-relationships between psychosocial variables in the Women's Health Australia study.
Ms Lisa Milne: The complexity of labour market inequalities: Gendered subjectivity, material circumstances and young women’s aspirations.
Ms Gabrielle Rose: A middle-age cohort study with Queensland women who have asthma.
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Professional Doctorates
Current Research Projects by Professional Doctorate students

Mr Christopher Hart: Validation of survey measures of depression, anxiety and cognitive impairment in the older cohort.
Ms Carmen Tang: Validation of survey measures of depression, anxiety and cognitive impairment in the older cohort.

Completed Research Projects by Professional Doctorate students

Dr Sally Price: Widowhood and psychological correlates across time: A longitudinal analysis.
Ms Nicole Arthur: Combinations of aspirations and psychological well-being



Masters
Current Research Projects by Masters students


Ms Toni Lindsay: Traumatic events and health behaviours.
Ms Nadine Smith:


Completed Research Projects by Masters students

Ms Jenny Powers: Stability of groups of correlated variables identified by exploratory factor and cluster analysis.
Ms Barbara Reen: Depression study: Emotions and health.
Ms Nadine Smith: Psychological predictors of successful ageing in a cohort of Australian women.
Ms Fiona Campbell: Predicting body dissatisfaction amongst young women.
Dr Samantha Hollingworth: The contraceptive behaviour of young women in Australia.
Ms Frances Allyn: Restraint, emotions and health in relation to binge eating.
Ms Anurina Das: Use of HRT by older Australian women.
Ms Karen Furlong: Epidemiology of osteoporosis in Australian women.
Ms Jessica Ford: Survival analysis of older women.
Ms Angela Wood: A longitudinal analysis of Oral Contraceptive Pill (OCP) use.

Completed Research Projects by Honours students

Mrs Glennys Parker: Violence and abuse: An assessment of mid-aged women’s experiences.
Ms Sandra Bell: Examination of the psychometric properties of the WHA Young Stress Scale: A measure of perceived stress for young Australian women.
Ms Stefani Strazzari: Contraception and young women.
Ms Wenggie Fong: Vision and hearing loss in older women: Health and psychosocial impacts.
Ms Nicole Arthur: Young Australian women’s aspirations for work, marriage and family.
Ms Elizabeth Knock: Anxiety and depression in young women.
Ms Vineta Salale: What drives health insurance purchases among younger women?

Other Women's Health Australia Research


Click on the link above to view a list of current and completed substudies. Substudies are projects that investigate specific health-related topics and are conducted with participants from the Women's Health Australia project.


To view a list of approved analyses currently in progress using Women's Health Australia data click on the link above.
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