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University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2023-08-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Social Work and Social Administration)
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Yuan Cao

Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Hong Kong, HK

2021-06-21 to 2023-07-26 | Research Assistant Professor (Rehabilitation Sciences)
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Yuan Cao

Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Hong Kong, CN

2020-02 to 2021-06-20 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Rehabilitation Sciences)
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Yuan Cao

Relationships Australia Queensland: Eight Mile Plains, QLD, AU

2017 to 2019 | Research Officer (Research)
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Yuan Cao

Education and qualifications (4)

University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland, AU

2014 to 2018 | PhD in psychology
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Yuan Cao

University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland, AU

2013 to 2018 | Master of Clinical Psychology
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Yuan Cao

University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland, AU

2011 to 2012 | Master of Neuroscience (Queensland Brain Institute )
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Yuan Cao

City University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2008 to 2011 | Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology (first class honours)
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Works (31)

Intolerance of uncertainty, aging, and anxiety and mental health concerns: A scoping review and meta-analysis

Journal of Anxiety Disorders
2025-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2025.102975
Contributors: Mandy H.M. Yu; Yuan Cao; Sylvia S.Y. Fung; Gerald S.Y. Kwan; Zita C.K. Tse; David H.K. Shum
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Adaptation of the virtual assessment of mentalizing ability and evaluation of its utility and psychometric properties in Chinese individuals on the schizophrenia spectrum

Schizophrenia
2025-03-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41537-025-00594-1
Part of ISSN: 2754-6993
Contributors: Yuan Cao; Winnie Wing Yee SO; 王毅; Ding-ding Hu; Yi Xie; Jie Gu; Raymond C.K. Chan; David H. K. Shum
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Yuan Cao

Managing Uncertainty and Loneliness: Protective and Risk Factors Impacting on Older People’s Mental Health in Hong Kong

Journal of Gerontological Social Work
2025-02-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2024.2423678
Contributors: Yuan Cao; Gerald Shiu Yin Kwan; Zita Cho Kwan Tse; Karen Kit Sum Chow; Dilys Kwai Sin Kwan; Windes Wai Yin Lam; David Ho Keung Shum
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Does Playing Mahjong Benefit Older Individuals? A Scoping Review

The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.14283/jpad.2024.102
Part of ISSN: 2274-5807
Contributors: Z.C.K. Tse; Y. Cao; B.K.H. Chau; M.K. Yeung; C. Leung; D.H. K. Shum
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Yuan Cao

Development and validation of a mental eHealth literacy scale

Computers in Human Behavior Reports
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.chbr.2024.100518
Contributors: Richard Huan Xu; Yuan Cao; Dong Dong; Eliza Lai-yi Wong; Sherry Kit-wa Chan
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Nonpharmacological Multi-Modal Interventions on Cognitive Functions in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Scoping Review (Preprint)

2024-12-19 | Preprint
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.70291
Contributors: Raffy Chi-Fung Chan; Joson Hao-Shen Zhou; Yuan Cao; Kenneth Lo; Peter h. f. Ng; David Ho-Keung Shum; Arnold Yu-Lok Wong
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Age Differences in Electronic Mental Health Literacy: Qualitative Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research
2024-07-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2196/59131
Contributors: Richard Huan Xu; Lidan Tian; Liling Zhu; Yuan Cao; Sherry Kit-wa Chan; Dong Dong; Wai-ling Annie Cheung; Eliza Lai-yi Wong
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Are older adults more prosocial than younger adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis

The Gerontologist
2024-07-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnae082
Part of ISSN: 0016-9013
Part of ISSN: 1758-5341
Contributors: Duo Li; Yuan Cao; Bryant P H Hui; David H K Shum
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Yuan Cao

Age Differences in Electronic Mental Health Literacy: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

2024-04-03 | Preprint
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.59131
Contributors: Richard Huan Xu; Lidan Tian; Liling Zhu; Yuan Cao; Sherry Kit-wa Chan; Dong Dong; Wai-ling Annie Cheung; Eliza Lai-yi Wong
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Improving mental health literacy using web- or app-based interventions: A scoping review

DIGITAL HEALTH
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/20552076241243133
Part of ISSN: 2055-2076
Part of ISSN: 2055-2076
Contributors: Lidan Tian; Eliza Laiyi Wong; Dong Dong; Annie Wailing Cheung; Sherry Kit-wa Chan; Yuan Cao; Phoenix K.H. Mok; Lingming Zhou; Richard Huan Xu
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Yuan Cao

The effects of psychosocial and behavioral interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Scientific Reports
2023-11-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-45839-0
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Jiali He; Jingxia Lin; Wen Sun; Teris Cheung; Yuan Cao; Eugene Fu; Sunny H. W. Chan; Hector W. H. Tsang
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Yuan Cao

Correction to: Prospective Memory Training in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Neuropsychology Review
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11065-022-09565-0
Contributors: Zita C. K. Tse; Yuan Cao; James M. Ogilvie; Bolton K. H. Chau; Daphne H. C. Ng; David H. K. Shum
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Stigma and health inequality experienced by ethnic minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Chinese community: an implication to health policymakers

Frontiers in Public Health
2023-05-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1184209
Part of ISSN: 2296-2565
Contributors: Judy Yuen-Man Siu; Yuan Cao; David H. K. Shum
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Yuan Cao

Groups 4 Health in Later Life

Comprehensive Clinical Psychology
2022 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818697-8.00037-6
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Yuan Cao

COVID-19 one year on: identification of at-risk groups for psychological trauma and poor health-protective behaviour using a telephone survey

BMC Psychiatry
2022-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-03904-4
Part of ISSN: 1471-244X
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Yuan Cao

Perceptions of and hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccination in older Chinese adults in Hong Kong: a qualitative study

BMC Geriatrics
2022-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-022-03000-y
Part of ISSN: 1471-2318
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Yuan Cao

Using knowledge of, attitude toward, and daily preventive practices for COVID-19 to predict the level of post-traumatic stress and vaccine acceptance among adults in Hong Kong

Frontiers in Psychology
2022-12-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1103903
Part of ISSN: 1664-1078
Contributors: Yuan Cao; Judy Yuen-man Siu; Kup-Sze Choi; Nick Cho-lik Ho; Kai Chun Wong; David H. K. Shum
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Yuan Cao

‘We were actually able to sit down and talk’: Australian parents and practitioners navigating dynamics of power and emotion in Family Dispute Resolution

Journal of Family Studies
2022-12-02 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2151499
Part of ISSN: 1322-9400
Part of ISSN: 1839-3543
Contributors: Emily Stevens; Aditi Lohan; Jemima Petch; Jamie Lee; Jamie Lee; Yuan Cao
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Yuan Cao
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The application of technology to improve cognition in older adults: A review and suggestions for future directions

PsyCh Journal
2022-06-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/pchj.565
Part of ISSN: 2046-0252
Part of ISSN: 2046-0260
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Prospective Memory Training in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Neuropsychology Review
2022-05-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11065-022-09536-5
Part of ISSN: 1040-7308
Part of ISSN: 1573-6660
Contributors: Yuan Cao
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Yuan Cao
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Does Relationship Counselling for One Work? An Effectiveness Study of Routine Relationship Counselling Services Where Only One Individual Attends

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
2021-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/anzf.1458
Part of ISSN: 0814-723X
Part of ISSN: 1467-8438
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Yuan Cao

The functional significance of cognitive empathy and theory of mind in early and chronic schizophrenia.

Psychiatry research
2021-03-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113852
PMID: 33761402
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Yuan Cao
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Culture-sex interaction and the self-report empathy in Australians and mainland Chinese

Frontiers in Psychology
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00396
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2-s2.0-85065170099
Contributors: Zhao, Q.; Neumann, D.L.; Cao, Y.; Baron-Cohen, S.; Yan, C.; Chan, R.C.K.; Shum, D.H.K.
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Neural and behavioral markers of observed pain of older adults

Neuropsychologia
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.04.012
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2-s2.0-85066949728
Contributors: Cao, Y.; Yusri, N.M.; Powell, T.; Cunnington, R.
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Yuan Cao via Scopus - Elsevier

Changes in neural activation underlying attention processing of emotional stimuli following treatment with positive search training in anxious children

Journal of Anxiety Disorders
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.02.004
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2-s2.0-85044124198
Contributors: Waters, A.M.; Cao, Y.; Kershaw, R.; Kerbler, G.M.; Shum, D.H.K.; Zimmer-Gembeck, M.J.; Craske, M.G.; Bradley, B.P.; Mogg, K.; Pine, D.S. et al.
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Yuan Cao via Scopus - Elsevier

Validation of the Empathy Quotient in Mainland China

Journal of Personality Assessment
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2017.1324458
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2-s2.0-85019539510
Contributors: Zhao, Q.; Neumann, D.L.; Cao, X.; Baron-Cohen, S.; Sun, X.; Cao, Y.; Yan, C.; Wang, Y.; Shao, L.; Shum, D.H.K.
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Yuan Cao via Scopus - Elsevier

Low mood leads to increased empathic distress at seeing others' pain

Frontiers in Psychology
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02024
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2-s2.0-85034612457
Contributors: Cao, Y.; Dingle, G.; Chan, G.C.; Cunnington, R.
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Racial bias in neural response to others' pain is reduced with other-race contact

Cortex
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.02.010
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2-s2.0-84939561434
Contributors: Cao, Y.; Contreras-Huerta, L.S.; McFadyen, J.; Cunnington, R.
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Yuan Cao via Scopus - Elsevier

Trait and state positive emotional experience in schizophrenia: A meta-analysis

PLoS ONE
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040672
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2-s2.0-84864008330
Contributors: Yan, C.; Cao, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Song, L.-L.; Cheung, E.F.C.; Chan, R.C.K.
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Yuan Cao via Scopus - Elsevier

Self-reported pleasure experience and motivation in individuals with schizotypal personality disorders proneness

East Asian Archives of Psychiatry
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80053328360
Contributors: Yan, C.; Liu, W.H.; Cao, Y.; Chan, R.C.K.
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Yuan Cao via Scopus - Elsevier

Coping flexibility in college students with depressive symptoms

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-66
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2-s2.0-77954409666
Contributors: Zong, J.-G.; Cao, X.-Y.; Cao, Y.; Shi, Y.-F.; Wang, Y.-N.; Yan, C.; Abela, J.R.Z.; Gan, Y.-Q.; Gong, Q.-Y.; Chan, R.C.K.
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Yuan Cao via Scopus - Elsevier

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