Researcher biography
Dr Caley Tapp is a Research Fellow with the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland, based at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research.
Caley holds qualifications in psychology and epidemiology. She has a PhD in social psychology and completed a post doctoral fellowship on an ARC funded project examining a disease avoidance basis for stigmatisation.
Caley's role is with the Analysis and Reporting Component of the Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network (AMHOCN), which leads the design, analysis and reporting of the National Outcomes and Casemix Collection (http://www.amhocn.org/). In this role she is involved in a range of projects designed to improve the measurement of patient- and service-level outcomes in Australia's specialised public sector mental health services. She has experience in conducting systematic literature reviews, as well as conducting experimental, quasi-experimental and qualitative studies. Caley's other research interests include examining the stigmatisation of people with obesity.
Caley is available to supervise honours, Masters and HDR students on a variety of topics; please get in touch to discuss.
Book Chapters
Occhipinti, Stefano and Tapp, Caley (2024). Data preparation. Advanced research methods for applied psychology. (pp. 224-237) edited by Paula Brough. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003362715-20
Occhipinti, Stefano and Tapp, Caley (2019). Data preparation. Advanced research methods for applied psychology: design, analysis and reporting. (pp. 201-210) edited by Paula Brough. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315517971-20
Journal Articles
Slade, Tim, Vescovi, Joshua, Chapman, Cath, Teesson, Maree, Arya, Vikas, Pirkis, Jane, Harris, Meredith G, Burgess, Philip M, Santomauro, Damian, O’Dean, Siobhan, Tapp, Caley and Sunderland, Matthew (2024). The epidemiology of mental and substance use disorders in Australia 2020–22: Prevalence, socio-demographic correlates, severity, impairment and changes over time. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48674241275892. doi: 10.1177/00048674241275892
Arya, Vikas, Burgess, Philip, Diminic, Sandra, Harris, Meredith G., Slade, Tim, Sunderland, Matthew, Tapp, Caley, Vescovi, Joshua and Pirkis, Jane (2024). Suicidal ideation, suicide plans and suicide attempts among Australian adults: Findings from the 2020–2022 National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48674241256753. doi: 10.1177/00048674241256753
Walters, Jared, Occhipinti, Stefano, Duffy, Amanda L., Scrafton, Sharon, Tapp, Caley and Oaten, Megan (2024). Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease. Cognition and Emotion, 38 (3), 399-410. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2300390
Arya, Vikas, Page, Andrew, Vijayakumar, Lakshmi, Onie, Sanderson, Tapp, Caley, John, Ann, Pirkis, Jane and Armstrong, Gregory (2023). Changing profile of suicide methods in India: 2014–2021. Journal of Affective Disorders, 340, 420-426. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.08.010
McErlean, Gemma, Tapp, Caley, Brice, Lisa, Gilroy, Nicole, Kabir, Masura, Greenwood, Matt, Larsen, Stephen R, Moore, John, Gottlieb, David, Hertzberg, Mark, Brown, Louisa, Hogg, Megan, Huang, Gillian, Ward, Christopher and Kerridge, Ian (2023). Predictors of post traumatic growth in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation survivors: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Psychology, 11 (1) 235, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01204-4
McErlean, Gemma, Tapp, Caley, Brice, Lisa, Pradhan, Anisha, Gilroy, Nicole, Kabir, Masura, Greenwood, Matt, Larsen, Stephen R, Moore, John, Gottlieb, David, Hertzberg, Mark, Brown, Louisa, Hogg, Megan, Huang, Gillian, Ward, Christopher and Kerridge, Ian (2023). Decisional regret in long-term Australian allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation survivors: a cross-sectional survey. Clinical Nursing Research, 32 (8), 1134-1144. doi: 10.1177/10547738231180337
Harris, Meredith G., Tapp, Caley, Arnautovska, Urska, Coombs, Tim, Dickson, Rosemary, James, Mick, Painter, Jon, Smith, Mark, Jury, Angela, Lai, Jennifer and Burgess, Philip M. (2022). Assessing the content validity of the revised health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS 2018). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (16) 9895, 1-13. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19169895
Harris, Meredith G., Tapp, Caley, Arnautovska, Urska, Coombs, Tim, Dickson, Rosemary, Smith, Mark, Jury, Angela, Lai, Jennifer, James, Mick, Painter, Jon and Burgess, Philip M. (2022). Assessing the content validity of the revised Health of the Nation Outcome Scales 65+: the HoNOS Older Adults. BJPsych Bulletin, 47 (4), 1-8. doi: 10.1192/bjb.2022.37
Tapp, Caley, Mishra, Gita D., Dobson, Annette J., Moss, Katrina M. and Tooth, Leigh R. (2022). History of pre‐pregnancy maternal symptoms of binge eating and childhood behavioral problems in girls and boys. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 55 (11), 1565-1574. doi: 10.1002/eat.23783
Davis, Melanie, Oaten, Megan, Tapp, Caley and Occhipinti, Stefano (2022). Development and psychometric evaluation of the Aversion to Bowel Cancer Screening Scale. European Journal of Cancer Care, 31 (6) e13661, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/ecc.13661
Oaten, Megan, Stevenson, Richard J., Occhipinti, Stefano, Tapp, Caley and Case, Trevor I. (2022). The Factorial Structure of Stigma and Its Targets. Social Psychology, 53 (2), 96-106. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000479
Shagar, Pravina Santhira, Donovan, Caroline L., Boddy, Jennifer, Tapp, Caley, Lee, Patricia and Harris, Neil (2021). Body dissatisfaction, weight-related behaviours, and health behaviours: a comparison between Australian and Malaysian in female emerging adults. Behaviour Change, 38 (3), 148-163. doi: 10.1017/bec.2021.9
Santhira Shagar, Pravina, Donovan, Caroline L., Boddy, Jennifer, Tapp, Caley and Harris, Neil (2021). Does culture moderate the relationship between body dissatisfaction and quality of life? A comparative study of Australian and Malaysian emerging adults. Health Psychology Open, 8 (1) 205510292110183, 1-9. doi: 10.1177/20551029211018378
Brice, Lisa, McErlean, Gemma, Donovan, Caroline, Tapp, Caley, Gilroy, Nicole, Kabir, Masura, Greenwood, Matt, Larsen, Stephen R., Moore, John, Gottlieb, David, Hertzberg, Mark, Brown, Louisa, Hogg, Megan, Huang, Gillian, Tan, Jeff, Ward, Christopher and Kerridge, Ian (2020). Fear of cancer recurrence following allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for haematological malignancy: a cross-sectional study. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 49 101845, 101845. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2020.101845
Tapp, Caley, Oaten, Megan, Stevenson, Richard J., Occhipinti, Stefano and Thandi, Ravjinder (2019). Is obesity treated like a contagious disease?. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 50 (4) jasp.12650, 205-212. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12650
Oaten, Megan, Stevenson, Richard J., Tapp, Caley, Case, Trevor I. and Cousins, Allie (2019). The role of disgust in male sexual decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, 9 (JAN) 2602. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02602
Tapp, Caley and Occhipinti, Stefano (2016). The essence of crime: contagious transmission from those who have committed moral transgressions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 55 (4), 756-772. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12153
Research Reports
Pirkis, Jane, Currier, Dianne, Harris, Meredith, Mihalopoulos, Cathy, Arya, Vikas, Banfield, Michelle, Bassilios, Bridget, Buchanan, Ben, Butterworth, Peter, Brophy, Lisa, Burgess, Philip, Chatterton, Mary Lou, Chilver, Miranda, Eagar, Kathy, Faller, Jan, Fossey, Ellie, Ftanou, Maria, Gunn, Jane, Kruger, Ariel, Le, Long, Newton, Danielle, Roberts, Leo, Scurrah, Katrina, Scheurer, Roman, Spittal, Matthew, Tapp, Caley, van Gelder, Tim and Williamson, Michelle (2022). Evaluation of the Better Access initiative – final report. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.
Harris, Meredith , Tapp, Caley , Arnautovska, Urska , Coombs, Tim , Dickson, Rosemary , Smith, Mark , Jury, Angela , Lai, Jennifer , James, Mick , Painter, Jon and Burgess, Philip (2021). Assessing the content validity of the revised Health of the Nation Outcome Scales 65+: the HoNOS Older Adults. Sydney, Australia: Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network.
Harris, Meredith , Tapp, Caley , Arnautovska, Urska , Coombs, Tim , Dickson, Rosemary , James, Mick , Painter, Jon , Smith, Mark , Jury, Angela , Lai, Jennifer and Burgess, Philip (2021). Assessing the content validity of the revised Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS 2018). Sydney, Australia: Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network.