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
Amy Anderson: Assessing alcohol use in pregnant women using data fromthe Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
Jane Rich: An interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between drought and mental health in Australia.
Danielle
Herbert:
An examination of trends in women's sexual and reproductive health
over ten years: Findings from the ALSWH; and Miscarriage or termination
of pregnancy in young and middle aged Australian women: Are they
infertile?
Melissa
Harris: When life's a pain: The relationship
between stress and modifiable psychological factors in arthritis.
Joanne
Flavel: The impact of health on lifetime earnings,
labour force experience and retirement and the effects of all these
factors on the degree of income and health inequalities post retirement.
Nicole Au: Economic
analysis of BMI and employment patterns in Australian women.
Kees Van Gool: The
impact of out-of-pocket costs on the use and distribution of cervical
screening services.
Dr Jeannine Liddle: Participation
in the arts and its relation to healthy ageing: A pilot study with
older women.
Sue Conrad: Residential
location, neighbourhood belonging and health outcomes of middle-aged
Australian women.
Michelle Blumfield:
Comparison of Australian women's dietary intake and food
choices during pregnancy.
Steven Bowe:
Adjusting for death in longitudinal studies.
Catherine Chojenta:
Prevalence, antecedents and efficacy of treatments of postnatal
depression in Australia.
Leanne Fray:
Children's structured leisure activities: Three generations of change.
Rosie Mooney:
Declining fertility rates and the normalisation of technological
control of reproduction among young Australian women.
Completed
Research Projects by PhD students
Dr Meredith Tavener: A shift in thinking: Comparing baby boomer narrative over time.
Dr Beverley Lloyd: Young women, multiple roles and mental health: An investigation
of epidemiological and lay perspectives.
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.
Dr 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.
Dr Catherine Regan: Developing a general risk alert index for older people: A measure
of vulnerability to adverse outcomes.
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.
Dr
Lisa Milne: The complexity of labour market inequalities:
Gendered subjectivity, material circumstances and young women’s
aspirations.
Dr
Gabrielle Rose:
A middle-age cohort study with Queensland women who have asthma.
Dr
Afsoon Hassani Mehraban:
A functional model of fall risk.
Dr
Alexis Hure: Comparison of Australian women's
dietary intake during pregnancy and non-pregnancy.
Dr
Rosemary Korda: Socio-economic inequalities
in women's use of health care services in Australia.
Dr Nadine Smith: Mental
health: A longitudinal analysis of the self-reported mental health
of Australian women.
Dr
Leah Collins: Predicting depression, positive
psychological outcomes and quality of life in Australian women with
chronic illness.
Dr Lisa Beatty:
Psychological adjustment after breast cancer diagnosis
and treatment.
Dr Heather McKay: Childlessness
and the role of choice in childless women's reproductive outcomes.
Dr Ingrid Rowlands:
Coping with miscarriage: Young women's experiences.
Dr Liane McDermott: Cigarette
smoking among young women.
Dr Melissa Johnstone:
Longitudinal aspirations of young women.
Professional
Doctorates
Current
Research Projects by Professional Doctorate students
Completed
Research Projects by Professional Doctorate students
Dr
Sally Price: Widowhood and psychological correlates
across time: A longitudinal analysis.
Dr Nicole Arthur: Combinations
of aspirations and psychological well-being.
Dr Christopher Hart: Validation
of survey measures of depression, anxiety and cognitive impairment
in the older cohort.
Dr Carmen Tang: Validation of survey measures of depression, anxiety and cognitive
impairment in the older cohort.
Masters
Current
Research Projects by Masters students
Nazim
Khan: Social
support in older women
Nicole Rutter: The impact of social support on the long term health effects of mid aged women who have experienced intimate partner violence.
Completed
Research Projects by Masters students
Jenny Powers:
Stability of groups of correlated variables identified by exploratory
factor and cluster analysis.
Barbara Reen:
Depression study: Emotions and health.
Nadine Smith: Psychological
predictors of successful ageing in a cohort of Australian women.
Fiona Campbell:
Predicting body dissatisfaction amongst young women.
Dr Samantha Hollingworth:
The contraceptive behaviour of young women in Australia.
Frances Allyn:
Restraint, emotions and health in relation to binge eating.
Anurina Das: Use of HRT by older Australian women.
Karen Furlong:
Epidemiology of osteoporosis in Australian women.
Jessica Ford:
Survival analysis of older women.
Angela Wood: A longitudinal analysis of Oral
Contraceptive Pill (OCP) use.
Toni Lindsay: Traumatic
events and health behaviours.
Kore Yiee Wong:
Differences in causes of death in urban-rural women.
Completed
Research Projects by Honours students
Glennys Parker: Violence and abuse: An assessment of
mid-aged women’s experiences.
Sandra Bell: Examination
of the psychometric properties of the WHA Young Stress Scale: A
measure of perceived stress for young Australian women.
Stefani Strazzari: Contraception and young women.
Wenggie Fong:
Vision and hearing loss in older women: Health and psychosocial
impacts.
Nicole Arthur:
Young Australian women’s aspirations for work, marriage and
family.
Elizabeth Knock: Anxiety and depression in young
women.
Vineta Salale: What drives health insurance
purchases among younger women?
Jane Rich:
The lived experience of drought: The story from the qualitative
data of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health.
Janni Leung: Tobacco
smoking and mental health.
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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