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Research
Latest papers
The global cancer mental health survey: insights from patient and provider experiences on psychosocial care access.
EClinicalMedicine · 2026
A feasibility study of an Evidence-informed, Competency-based, Accredited, Compassion Training (EnACT) program.
BMC medical education · 2026
Reading the Room: A Joint Perspective From a Scientist- and Patient-Partnered Working Group on the Importance of Patient-Centered Language in the Dissemination of Cancer Research.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $74,938
Sharing in lieu of caring: Can prospective self-disclosure reduce death anxiety among parents with early onset cancer?
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $59,673
Tipping the scales: Integrating sociocultural and intergroup relations perspectives to understand and reduce weight stigma
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $44,359
The more we get together, the more equality there will be? Investigating how intergroup contact can promote social change
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
The global cancer mental health survey: insights from patient and provider experiences on psychosocial care access.
Borda JP, Shapiro GK, Rosa WE, Bergerot C, Fernández González L, Lam WWT, Mehnert-Theuerkauf A, Jackson MJ, Maues J, Veeraiah S, Asuzu C, MacInnis C, Li M
A feasibility study of an Evidence-informed, Competency-based, Accredited, Compassion Training (EnACT) program.
Sinclair S, MacInnis C, Roze des Ordons A, Dhingra S, Harris D, Bouchal SR
Reading the Room: A Joint Perspective From a Scientist- and Patient-Partnered Working Group on the Importance of Patient-Centered Language in the Dissemination of Cancer Research.
MacInnis C, Dickinson K, Efremov K, Coish J, de Nobrega M, Auchinleck J, Allain-Labelle I, Palmer A, Bird L, Leung SOA, Burnier JV
The initial validation of an Evidence-informed, competency-based, Applied Compassion Training (EnACT) program: a multimethod study.
Sinclair S, Dhingra S, Bouchal SR, MacInnis C, Harris D, Roze des Ordons A, Pesut B
What role does compassion have on quality care ratings? A regression analysis and validation of the SCQ in emergency department patients.
Boss H, MacInnis C, Simon R, Jackson J, Lahtinen M, Sinclair S
A multilevel analysis of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights support across 77 countries: The role of contact and country laws.
Earle M, Hoffarth MR, Prusaczyk E, MacInnis C, Hodson G
Examining Weight Bias among Practicing Canadian Family Physicians.
Alberga AS, Nutter S, MacInnis C, Ellard JH, Russell-Mayhew S
Framing obesity a disease: Indirect effects of affect and controllability beliefs on weight bias.
Nutter S, Alberga AS, MacInnis C, Ellard JH, Russell-Mayhew S
Sharing in lieu of caring: Can prospective self-disclosure reduce death anxiety among parents with early onset cancer?
Principal investigators: MacInnis, Cara
Keywords: self-disclosure; intimacy; close relationships; parent-child relationships; cancer; death anxiety; continuing bonds; fear of death; interpersonal closeness; inclusion of other in self
Tipping the scales: Integrating sociocultural and intergroup relations perspectives to understand and reduce weight stigma
Principal investigators: Nutter, Sarah
Keywords: weight stigma; prejudice; intergroup relations; sociocultural theory; ideology; attribution theory
The more we get together, the more equality there will be? Investigating how intergroup contact can promote social change
Principal investigators: MacInnis, Cara C.
Keywords: intergroup contact; prejudice; collective action; policy; social change; cross-group friendship; inequality
The more we get together, the more equality there will be? Investigating how intergroup contact can promote social change
Principal investigators: MacInnis, Cara C.
Keywords: intergroup contact; prejudice; collective action; policy; social change; cross-group friendship; inequality
Do cross-socioeconomic class friendships promote social mobility and positive class relations? A multi-method investigation
Principal investigators: MacInnis, Cara
Keywords: (1) intergroup contact; (2) cross-group friendship; (3) social mobility; (4) attitudes; (5) prejudice; (6) social class; (7) socioeconomic status; (8) education; (9) academic achievement
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Shane Sinclair and Amanda Roze des Ordons: 4 shared papers
- Shane Sinclair and Cara MacInnis: 3 shared papers
- Shane Sinclair and Barbara Pesut: 2 shared papers
- Amanda Roze des Ordons and Cara MacInnis: 2 shared papers
- Barbara Pesut and Amanda Roze des Ordons: 1 shared paper
- Barbara Pesut and Cara MacInnis: 1 shared paper
- Madeline Li and Cara MacInnis: 1 shared paper
- Cara MacInnis and Gordon Hodson: 1 shared paper
- Social Psychology
- Department of Oncology
- School of Nursing
- Psychiatry
- Other
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