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Dr Trish Cain

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6892
Email: p.cain@ecu.edu.au
Room: 4.220  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4377-3690

Trish is a Lecturer in Psychology within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current teaching

  • PSY3456 - Mental Health and Interventions
  • PSY1204 - Social Determinants of Behaviour

Background

Trish completed her PhD on the topic of Weight Stigma at Murdoch University, Australia in 2019. She is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including the development of psychometric measures and the analysis of big Qualitative data sets.

Her previous projects include the development and validation of the Fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT), and current projects include secondary analysis of evidence from the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and a multifaceted cross-generational investigation of attitudes towards ageing and older people.

Trish completed a post-Doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Research in Aged Care at ECU in 2023 and now has full-time teaching and research role in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Research areas and interests

  • Attitude formation and measurement
  • Lived experiences of people from marginalised groups
  • Analysis of big qualitative data sets
  • Psychometric measurement

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University, 2019.
  • Bachelor of Psychology with Honours, Murdoch University, 2015.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Porock, D., Cain, T., Young, C., Hilbers, J., Bomm, M., Ghosh, M., Stanley, M. (2024). The Careful Project: Evaluating the acceptability of local virtual reality experiences as a leisure activity for residents in aged care. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2024(Article in press), 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13379.
  • Chejor, P., Atee, M., Cain, T., Whiting, D., Morris, T., Porock, D. (2024). Pain prevalence, intensity, and association with neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia in immigrant and non-immigrant aged care residents in Australia. Scientific Reports, 14(1), article number 16948. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68110-6.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Chejor, P., Atee, M., Cain, T., Whiting, D., Morris, T., Porock, D. (2023). Comparing clinico-demographics and neuropsychiatric symptoms for immigrant and non-immigrant aged care residents living with dementia: a retrospective cross-sectional study from an Australian dementia-specific support service. BMC Geriatrics, 23(1), article number 729. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04447-3.
  • Chejor, P., Cain, T., Laging, B., Porock, D. (2023). Dementia care for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: Qualitative secondary analysis of the Aged Care Australian Royal Commission data. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 2023(Article in press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13241.
  • Cain, T., Chejor, P., Porock, D. (2023). Chemical restraint as behavioural euthanasia: case studies from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. BMC Geriatrics, 23(1), 61869. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04116-5.

2022

Book Chapters

  • Cain, T., Donaghue, N., Ditchburn, G. (2022). Changing attitudes: A review and critique of weight stigma intervention research. Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies (370-380). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344824-46.

Journal Articles

  • Skoss, M., Batten, R., Cain, T., Stanley, M. (2022). Vulnerable, recalcitrant, and resilient: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of risk and older people within the context of COVID-19 news media. Ageing and Society, 2022(article in press), 1-18. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000897.
  • Cain, T., Donaghue, N., Ditchburn, G. (2022). Development and Validation of the fat Attitudes Assessment Toolkit (FAAT): A Multidimensional nonstigmatising measure of contemporary attitudes towards fatness and fat people. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(12), 1121-1145. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12882.
  • Cain, T., Alan, J., Porock, D. (2022). Emergency department transfers from residential aged care: What can we learn from secondary qualitative analysis of Australian Royal Commission data. BMJ Open, 12(9), Article number e063790. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063790.
  • Webber, S., Thille, P., Liu, K., Wittmeier, K., Cain, T. (2022). Determining Associations Among Health Orientation, Fitness Orientation, and Attitudes Toward Fatness in Physiotherapists and Physiotherapy Students Using Structural Equation Modeling. Physiotherapy Canada, 2022(Article in press), Article number e20220038. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3138/ptc-2022-0038.

2021

Book Chapters

  • Cain, T., Donaghue, N., Ditchburn, G. (2021). Quantifying or contributing to antifat attitudes?. The Routledge international handbook of fat studies (26-36). Routledge.

Journal Articles

  • Cain, T., Reid, A. (2021). Working hard and pushing through: A thematic analysis of humanitarian migrants' experiences in the Australian workforce. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), article number 11502. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111502.
  • Cain, T., Daly, A., Reid, A. (2021). How refugees experience the Australian workplace: A comparative mixed methods study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(8), article number 4023. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084023.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Cain, T., Donaghue, N. (2018). Political and health messages are differently palatable: A critical discourse analysis of women's engagement with Health At Every Size and fat acceptance messages. Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, 7(3), 264-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2018.1448174.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Cain, T., Donaghue, N., Ditchburn, G. (2017). Concerns, culprits, counsel, and conflice: A thematic analysis of "obesity" and fat discourse in digital news media. Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, 6(2), 170-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2017.1244418.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The characteristics and experieces of older immigrants living with dementia in Australia: A multi-method secondary analysis

Completed Supervisions

No data available
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