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Jo-Anne Rayner

BNsg, GradDipWmsHlth, MWmHlth

Postdoctoral Fellow, Team Investigator COMPASS

Email: j.rayner@latrobe.edu.au

Telephone: +61 3 8341 8581

With a professional background in plastic surgery nursing, Jo has worked in academia for 15 years. Since joining MCHR in 2000 Jo has been a research team member of the Tall Girls Study, and project co-ordinator of the Early Births and PinC studies. Her PhD research involved an exploration of depression among the Tall Girls study cohort and since completing this Jo has lead a research program with colleagues looking at women’s use of complementary and alternative therapies to enhance fertility.

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Women’s health and the role of gender as a health determinant, in particular mental health and wellbeing as understood through women’s experiences; reproductive health; and qualitative research methods.

CURRENT PROJECTS

FAM: Fertility and Alternative Medicine Exploring women’s use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) to enhance their fertility
Team:	Jo Rayner, Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Marie Pirotta, Michelle Kealy, David Ellwood, Rhian Walsh
Funding:	Unfunded
Status:	Three focus groups undertaken by Master of Midwifery student Rhian Walsh, supervised by Jo Rayner and Helen McLachlan; analysis complete and thesis underway; presentation at PZANZ April 2008; preparation of nationally competitive grant application for 2009

The views, experiences and referral patterns of Victorian IVF specialists regarding fertility enhancement by complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
Team:	Jo Rayner, Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Michelle Kealy, Marie Pirotta
Funding:	La Trobe University Faculty Health Sciences Faculty Grant
Status:	First and second round of survey (n=55) and reminder postcards sent to IVF specialists; awaiting approval from RANZCOG to survey Victorian and ACT fellows

Cosmetic Endocrinology: (re) constructing femininity in ‘tall’ girls
Aim:	An exploration of depression in adulthood within the social context of treating tall stature in Australian adolescent girls over three decades.
Team:	Jo Rayner. Supervisors: Professor Judith Lumley, Dr Priscilla Pyett, Professor Jill Astbury, Associate Professor Alison Venn
Funding:	NHMRC Public Health PhD Scholarship 2005-2007
Status:	PhD Thesis submitted for examination, papers in preparation

PinC Private: A review of postnatal care in Victorian Private hospitals
Team:	Jo Rayner, Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Jane Yelland, Louise Peters
Funding:	MCHR and Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University
Status:	Papers in preparation, minor thesis submitted (LP)

PinC ANEW pilot project
Team:	Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Jane Yelland, Jo Rayner, Stephanie Brown, Kelsey Hegarty, Jane Gunn, Lisa Love, Margie Cass, Jenni Kelly
Funding:	Faculty of Health Sciences (La Trobe University )
Status:	Paper in preparation

PinC Package: a feasibility study of a patient preference approach to individualised flexible postnatal care
Team:	Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Jo Rayner, Jane Yelland, Lisa Gold
Funding:	Faculty of Health Sciences Research Support Grant (La Trobe University )
Status:	Second paper in preparation

PinC Documents: a study exploring the documentation used in postnatal units in Victoria
Team:	Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Tracey Savage, Jo Rayner
Funding:	Unfunded Masters project
Status:	Project complete, minor thesis submitted (TS), papers in preparation

Peer support for breastfeeding : a feasibility study
Team:	Della Forster, Helen McLachlan, Mary-Ann Davey , Lisa Amir, Lisa Gold, Jo Rayner
Funding:	La Trobe University
Status:	Paper in preparation

Women's' attitudes and experiences of breastfeeding? Does maternal weight make a difference?
Team:	Lisa Amir, Della Forster, Kate Stern, Jo-Anne Rayner
Funding:	La Trobe Research Grants Scheme
Status:	Focus groups and in-depth interviews in progress

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Forster DA, McLachlan HL, Rayner J, Yelland J, Gold L, Rayner S. The early postnatal period: exploring women's views, expectations and experiences of care using focus groups in Victoria, Australia. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2008; 8:27

Venn A, Hosmer T, Hosmer D, Bruinsma F, Jones P, Lumley J, Pyett P, Rayner J, Werther G. Estrogen treatment for tall stature in girls: estimating the effect on height and the error in height prediction. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, 2008; 68(6):926-929

Rayner J, Forster D, McLachlan H, Yelland J, Davey M-A. What are the views and experiences of midwives working in hospital based postnatal care? Findings from a state-wide review of hospital postnatal care in Victoria, Australia. Midwifery, 2008; 24(3):310-320

McLachlan H, Forster DA, Yelland J, Rayner J, Lumley J. Is the organisation and structure of hospital postnatal care a barrier to quality care? Findings from a State-wide review in Victoria, Australia. Midwifery, 2008; 24(3):358-370

Watson LF, Rayner JA, Lumley J. Hospital ethics approval for a population-based case-control study of very preterm birth. Aust Health Rev, 2007;31(4):514-522

Watson LF, Rayner J-A, Lumley JM, Potter A. Recruitment to research studies in maternity hospitals: An example from the Early Births Study. Midwifery, Oct 23 [Epub ahead of print] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2007.07.004

Yelland J, McLachlan H, Forster D, Rayner J, Lumley J. How is maternal psychosocial health assessed and promoted in the early postnatal period? Findings from a review of hospital postnatal care in Victoria, Australia. Midwifery, 2007; 23(3): 287-297

Watson L, Lumley J, Rayner J, Potter A. Research interviewers' experience in the Early Births study of very preterm birth: qualitative assessment of data collection processes in a case-control study. Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2006; 21: 87-94

Bruinsma F, Venn A, Patton G, Rayner J, Pyett P, Werther G, Jones P, Lumley J. Concern about tall stature during adolescence and depression in later life. J Affect Dis, 2006; 91(2-3): 145-52

Forster DA, McLachlan HL, Yelland J, Rayner J, Lumley J, Davey M-A. Staffing in postnatal units: is it adequate for the provision of quality care? Staff perspectives from a state-wide review of postnatal care in Victoria , Australia . BMC Health Services Research, 2006; 6:83 Online 4th July

Pyett P, Rayner J, Venn A, Bruinsma F, Jones P, Werther G, Lumley J. Using hormone treatment to reduce the adult height of tall girls: are women satisfied with the decision in later years? Soc Sci & Med, 2005; 61:1629-39

Venn A, Bruinsma F, Werther G, Pyett P, Baird, D, Jones P, Rayner J, Lumley J. The use of estrogen treatment to reduce the adult height of tall girls: long-term effects on fertility. Lancet, 2004; 364:1513-18.

Forster D, McLachlan H, Yelland J, Rayner J, Lumley J. PinC: A review of in-hospital postnatal care in Victoria. Mother & Child Health Research and the Clinical School of Midwifery and Neonatal Nursing Studies, La Trobe University, May 2005: 49pp.

Darcy MA, Watson L, Rayner J, Rowlands S. Risk scoring systems for predicting preterm birth with the aim of reducing associated adverse outcomes. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD004902. DOI: 10.1002/14651858. CD004902

Morrow, M., Nguyen Thi Thom, Rayner-Smith, J. Women's Health Profile: Vietnam. Women's Health Series, Vol 8. Manilla: WHO, 1995.

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