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Mary Kay Rayens

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Faculty Status:
Graduate (Full)
Education: Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1993
Interests: Tobacco policy; women's mental health; biostatistics
Phone: (859) 323-6172 
E-mail: mkrayens@uky.edu

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Mary Kay Rayens received her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her master’s degree in statistics from UK. In 1993, she completed her doctorate in statistics, also at UK. The focus of her dissertation research was the detection of clusters of disease over time.

Rayens serves as a co-investigator on a variety of sponsored projects involving issues such as tobacco control, drug prevention, depression in college women and single mothers, satisfaction with mental health services, farm safety, and asthma management in children. Her interests include experimental design and longitudinal data analysis, as well as other applications of statistical methods to biomedical data. She teaches biostatistics in the graduate program.

 

Recent Publications

York, N.L., Hahn, E.J., Rayens, M.K., & Talbert, J. (In press). Community readiness for local smoke-free policy change. American Journal of Health Promotion.

Riegel, B., Moser, D.K., Rayens, M.K., Carlson, B., Pressler, S.B., Shively, M., Albert, N.M., Armola, R., Evangelista, L., and Sethares, K. (2008). Ethnic differences in quality of life in persons with heart failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 14(1), 41-47.

Rayens, M.K., Hahn, E.J., Langley, R., Hedgecock, S., Butler, K., & Maggio, L. (In press). Public opinion and smoke-free laws. Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice.

Rayens, M.K., Hahn, E.J., & Hedgecock, S. (In press). Readiness to quit smoking in rural communities. Issues in Mental Health Nursing.

Peden, A.R., Rayens, M.K., Hall, L.A., Hahn, E.J., Riker, C., Ashford, K., & Zhang, M. (In press). Nicotine addiction in pregnancy: Preliminary efficacy of a mental health intervention. Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment.

Howard, P.B., Rayens, M.K., El-Mallakh, P., & Clark, J.J. (2007). Predictors of satisfaction among adult recipients of Medicaid mental health services. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 21(5), 257-269.

Okoli, C.T.C., Rayens, M.K., & Hahn, E.J. (2007). Behavioral effects of nicotine exposure from secondhand tobacco smoke among bar and restaurant workers. Addictive Behaviors, 32(9), 1922-1928.

 

More publications and presentations

Research:

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HIV Testing Factors Among Rural/Small City Black Men

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An Intervention for Promoting Smoke-Free Policy in Rural Kentucky

bullet BMI, Nutrition, Inflammation and Heart Failure Outcomes.
bullet Biobehavioral Intervention in Heart Failure
bullet Physiologic and Behavioral Mechanisms Linking Depression with Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Heart Failure.
bullet Kentucky Tobacco Policy Research Program (Web site)
bullet Development of an Academic Nurse-Managed Center Survey and Database.
bullet Sustained Work Indicators of Older Farmers
bullet Evaluation of Farm Safety 4 Just Kids Day Camps
bullet Testing the Effect of a Multi-Component Statewide Smoking Cessation Contest
bullet Trends in Tobacco Use in Undergraduate College Students
bullet Prevention of Depression in Low-Income Single Mothers
bullet School/Home-based Drug Prevention with Families at Risk
bullet Training and Implementation Fidelity of the Life Skills Training Program in Kentucky
bullet Improving Mental Health Outcomes Through a Primary Care Intervention

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bullet Faculty Receive Funding to Study Depression in Single Mothers

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