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Research Links for Mary Kay Rayens 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.
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Recent Publications
Howard, P.B., El-Mallakh, P., Miller, A., Rayens,
M.K., Bond, G., Henderson, K. & Cooley, A. (In press).
Prescriber fidelity to a medication management evidence-based
practice in the treatment of schizophrenia. Psychiatric
Services. Chung, M.L., Moser, D.K., Lennie, T.A., &
Rayens, M.K. (In press). The effects of
depressive symptoms and anxiety on quality of life in
patients with heart failure and their spouses: Testing
dyadic dynamics using Actor-Partner Interdependence
Model. Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
Hahn, E.J., Rayens, M.K., Langley, R.E., Darville,
A., Dignan, M. (In press). Time since smoke-free law and
smoking cessation behaviors. Nicotine & Tobacco
Research.
Butler, K.M., Rayens, M.K., Zhang, M., & Hahn, E.J. (In press). Motivation to quit smoking among
relatives of lung cancer patients.
Public Health
Nursing.
Wu, J.R., Moser, D.K., Lennie, T.A., De Jong, M.,
Rayens, M.K., Chung, M.L., & Riegel, B. (2009). Defining
an evidence-based cutpoint for medication adherence in heart
failure. American Heart Journal, 157, 285-291. |
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