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Lyn Watson

BSc, MSc, PhD

Research Fellow

 
Email: l.watson@latrobe.edu.au
Telephone: 03 8341 8511
Fax: 03 8341 8555
 

Lyn Watson has been the statistician at the Centre since 1992 and has been involved in many projects including PRISM and EcoPRISM, the Multi-centre study of cancer after infertility and analysis of the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health. In 2008, she completed her PhD on preterm birth. She continues to provide statistical input to many projects at Mother & Child Health Research, including COMPASS, PRISM and MOSAIC.

 
Lyn currently works part-time.
 
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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