Conference Abstracts

Presentations about the study have been given at various national and international conferences:

2008

• Perlen S, Brown S, McDonald E, Krastev A. Physical health problems in early pregnancy: findings from the Maternal Health Study. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 12th Annual Congress, April 2008, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2008;44;S1:A13
  
  
• Flood M, Brown S and the Maternal Health Collaborative Group. Data abstraction of labour and birth events from medical records: a complex task. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 12th Annual Congress, Gold Coast, April 2008, P32
  
  
• Woolhouse H, Brown S, Krastev A, Perlen S, Gunn J. Help-seeking behaviours of women experiencing depression and anxiety nine months after childbirth. 2008 GP & Primary Health Care Research Conference, Hobart, June 2008
  
  
• Gartland D, Brown S, Perlen S, McDonald E. Early pregnancy and the emotional and physical health of nulliparous women. Does maternal age make a difference? 2008 GP & Primary Health Care Research Conference, Hobart, June 2008
  
  
• McDonald E, Brown S, Krastev A. Sex after childbirth. 2008 GP & Primary Health Care Research Conference, Hobart, June 2008
  
  
• Brown S, Gartland D, Hemphill S, McDonald E, Krastev A, Hegarty K. Fear of an intimate partner during and after pregnancy: health consequences, social determinants, social policy solutions. 5th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, From Margins to Mainstream, Melbourne, September 2008 (accepted)
  
  

2007

• Brown S, McDonald, Krastev A, Hegarty K, Gunn J. Intimate partner violence and health in pregnancy. World Psychiatric Association International Congress (WPA 2007), Melbourne, November-December 2007.
  
  
• Brown S, McDonald E, Krastev A. Intimate partner violence and health in pregnancy. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 11th Annual Congress, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2007;43;S1:A15
  
  

2005

• Brown S, Lumley J, McDonald E, Krastev A. Maternal Health Study: will it help answer questions about the contribution of birth events to postpartum morbidity? Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 9th Annual Congress, Adelaide, March 2005, A126.
  
  

2004

• McDonald E, Brown S, Krastev A, Lumley J in collaboration with Bessell C, Brennecke S, Burrows R, Gunn J, Watson L, Wein P. Measuring perineal and other postnatal pain in the Maternal Health Study: a prospective cohort study of nulliparous women. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 8th Annual Congress, Sydney, March 2004, P132.
  
  
• Brown S, McDonald E, Krastev A, Lumley J. Maternal Health Study: a prospective cohort study of 1500 nulliparous women recruited in early pregnancy. Third Conference on Epidemiological Longitudinal Studies in Europe. Bristol, UK, September 2004, p35.
  
  

2003

• Brown S, Lumley J, McDonald E, Krastev A in collaboration with Bessell C, Brennecke S, Burrows R, Gunn J, Watson L, Wein P. Maternal Health Study: a prospective cohort study of 1900 women recruited in early pregnancy. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 7th Annual Congress, Hobart, March 2003, A88.
  
  

Papers in refereed journals

• Brown S, McDonald E, Krastev A. Fear of an intimate partner and women’s health in early pregnancy: findings from the Maternal Health Study. Birth 2008 In press
  
  
• Woolhouse H, Brown S, Perlen S, MacDonald E, Gartland G, Gunn J. Seeking help for anxiety and depression after childbirth. (submitted)