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Lyn Watson

BSc, MSc

Research Fellow

Email: l.watson@latrobe.edu.au

Telephone: 03 8341 8511

Fax: 03 8341 8555

Lyn Watson is a statistician who has worked at Mother and Child Health Research (MCHR) since 1992. Lyn came to MCHR with a strong background in health research statistics. Subsequently she has developed and refined her statistical expertise in epidemiological and public health research, and has been involved in randomised trials, cohort studies and case-control studies. She has a track record of working as an integral team member with MCHR teams and other public health research teams within Australia, through assisting with any or all of the design, sample size and analysis phases. For example, Lyn had a major role in design and analysis of a cluster randomised trial to reduce depression after childbirth (PRISM). Lyn’s contribution to COMPASS will be to assist team investigators with project design, sample size and analysis as required. She has recently submitted her PhD thesis titled “Early Births – a case-control study of very preterm birth” and has been awarded a La Trobe University Institute for Advanced Study Postgraduate Writing-Up Award.

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Preterm birth
Impact of intimate personal violence on women’s reproductive health
Statistical analysis and graphical presentation of results
Depression after childbirth

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Taft AJ, Watson LF. Depression and termination of pregnancy (induced abortion) in a national cohort of young Australian women: the confounding effect of women’s experience of violence. BMC Public Health 2008, 8:75

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/8/75
Watson LF, King JF. A new formula for summarising the pregnancy history. ANZJOG 2007;47(6):475-476.

Watson LF, Rayner J, Lumley JM. 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 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2007.07.004

Kune GA, Kune S, Watson LF. Colorectal cancer risk, chronic illnesses, operations and medications: case control results from the Melbourne Colorectal Cancer Study. Int J Epidemiol 2007;36:951-957.

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/5/951?etoc (Historical reprint of Cancer Res 1988;48:4399-404)

Conference presentations/abstracts

Watson LF, King JF, Forster D, Kealy M. Classifying very preterm births according to a modified version of the PSANZ Perinatal Death Classification. J Paed Child Health 2008;44 Suppl 1:A47

Kealy M, Watson L, Small R. Mode of birth preferences and outcomes: before and after caesarean section. J Paed Child Health 2008;44 Suppl 1:A50

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