OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annals of Behavioral Medicine is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Future-oriented Emotions and Decisions to Receive Genomic Testing Results Among U.S. Adults of African Ancestry	136
Theory-based Trial to Promote Uptake and Sustained Use of Face Coverings During the COVID-19 Pandemic	115
Psychological distress and substance use among transgender and gender diverse adults in the United States: an intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy	58
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Behavioral Economic Incentive Programs for Goal Achievement on Healthy Diet, Weight Control and Physical Activity: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis	45
Exposure to GLP-1 Receptor Agonist and Bariatric Surgery Use on Obesity Policy Support	36
Acute Experiences of Negative Interpersonal Interactions: Examining the Dynamics of Negative Mood and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Responses Among Black and Hispanic Urban Adults	34
Contrasting Objective and Perceived Risk: Predicting COVID-19 Health Behaviors in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample	33
The Annual Rhythms in Sleep, Sedentary Behavior, and Physical Activity of Australian Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study	32
Superwoman schema and arterial stiffness in Black American women: assessing the role of environmental mastery	32
The Relationship Between Perceived Uncontrollable Mortality Risk and Health Effort: Replication, Secondary Analysis, and Mini Meta-analysis	28
Effect of recreational sport and physical activity participation on well-being during early parenthood: a randomized controlled trial	25
Effectiveness of the video teach-back method in reducing kinesiophobia among patients following unilateral total hip arthroplasty: a quasi-experimental study	24
Preliminary Efficacy of a Theory-Informed Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing Uptake Among People Who Inject Drugs in San Diego County: Findings From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial	24
The Dyadic Interplay Between Relationship Satisfaction, Perceived Positive and Negative Social Control, and a Reduction of Sedentary Behavior Time	22
Evaluating adolescent eating autonomy through ecological momentary assessment	21
Stress, positive affect, and sleep in older African American adults: a test of the stress buffering hypothesis	20
Sexual Orientation-Specific Policies Are Associated With Prenatal Care Use in the First Trimester Among Sexual Minority Women: Results From a Prospective Cohort Study	20
Thank you to all of the following for their reviews in 2021	19
Multidimensional Religiousness and Spirituality Are Associated With Lower Interleukin-6 and C-Reactive Protein at Midlife: Findings From the Midlife in the United States Study	19
Changing Mindsets About Side Effects of the COVID-19 Vaccination: A Randomized Controlled Trial	19
Religion/Spirituality and Prevalent Hypertension among Ethnic Cohorts in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health	17
2025 SBM Annual Meeting Abstracts Supplement	16
Resilience in advanced cancer patients who obtain a long-term response to immunotherapy or targeted therapy: an Ecological Momentary Assessment study	16
Depression Symptoms and Physical Activity in Veterans With COPD: Insights From a Web-Based, Pedometer-Mediated Physical Activity Intervention	16
Examining Links Between Distinct Affective States and Tobacco Lapse During a Cessation Attempt Among African Americans: A Cohort Study	16

Effects of Government Mistrust and Group-Based Medical Mistrust on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among a Sample of African Americans	16
Associations of Coping Strategies With Glycemic and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Experiencing Diabetes Distress	16
Parent Communication and Decision Making About Firearm Storage	16
How Does Self-Control Promote Health Behaviors? A Multi-Behavior Test of Five Potential Pathways	16
Stability and change of illness identity in Belgian youth with type 1 diabetes: a latent transition analysis	16
Changes in Population Health-Related Behaviors During a COVID-19 Surge: A Natural Experiment	16
Age and Sex Differences in the Associations Among Socioeconomic Status, Affective Reactivity to Daily Stressors, and Physical Health in the MIDUS Study	14
Behavioral and Psychological Factors in Buffering Diabetes-related Disability Development	14
Health Professional- and Volunteer-partnered Self-management Support (COMBO-KEY) to Promote Self-efficacy and Self-management Behaviors in People with Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial	14
Glass “half full” on obesity and anti-obesity medication health communication	13
Associations of Anxiety Symptoms With 6-Year Blood Pressure Changes and Incident Hypertension: Results From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos	13
The Relationship Between Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Narrative Review	13
Associations Between the Superwoman Schema, Stress, and Cardiovascular Health Among African-American Women	12
Associations Between Psychological Factors and Adherence to Health Behaviors After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Role of Cardiac Rehabilitation	12
CBT-based Online Self-help Training to Reduce Fear and Distress After Cancer (CAREST Randomized Trial): 24 Months Follow-up Using Latent Growth Models and Latent Class Analysis	12
Frequently Interrupting Prolonged Sitting With Light Body-Weighted Resistance Activity Alters Psychobiological Responses to Acute Psychological Stress: A Randomized Crossover Trial	12
Independent Associations Between Trait-Anger, Depressive Symptoms and Preclinical Atherosclerotic Progression	12
Are Interventions Efficacious at Increasing Human Papillomavirus Vaccinations Among Adults? A Meta-Analysis	12
Patient Navigation Plus Tailored Digital Video Disc Increases Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Low-Income and Minority Patients Who Did Not Attend a Scheduled Screening Colonoscopy: A Randomized Tria	12
Systematic Review Examining the Behavior Change Techniques in Medication Adherence Intervention Studies Among People With Type 2 Diabetes	12
Doing it all: Effects of Family Responsibilities and Marital Relationship Quality on Mothers’ Ambulatory Blood Pressure	12
Testing Theory-Based Messages to Encourage Women at Average Risk for Breast Cancer to Consider Biennial Mammography Screening	11
Daily hassle effects on daily cigarette and/or e-cigarette use: the moderating effect of daily uplifts	11
Introducing a Real-Time Method for Identifying the Predictors of Noncompliance with Event-Based Reporting of Tobacco Use in Ecological Momentary Assessment	11
The Underlying Structure of Preventive Behaviors and Related Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Network Analysis	11
Support-Giving Is Associated With Lower Systemic Inflammation	11
Exploring novel determinants of exercise behavior: a lagged exposure-wide approach	10
Open science? Responsiveness to requests for data in a review of smoking cessation interventions	10
Behavioral and Psychosocial Dynamics in Diabetes Management: A Path Analysis to Examine the Influence of Acculturation in Arab Immigrant Communities	10
Daily reciprocal relationships between affect, physical activity, and sleep in middle and later life	10
Thinking Health-related Behaviors in a Climate Change Context: A Narrative Review	10
Executive Functioning, Daily Self-Regulation, and Diabetes Management while Transitioning into Emerging Adulthood	10
An individual participant data meta-analysis investigating the mediating role of eating behavior traits in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based weight management interventions	10
Behavioral Medicine Research Council (BMRC) Statement Papers: A New Approach to Consensus Building in Behavioral Medicine Science	10
Community-Derived Recommendations for Improving Gender Affirmation of Black and Latine Transgender/Nonbinary Youth	10
Changing mindsets about methotrexate in the rheumatology clinic to reduce side effects and improve adherence: a randomized controlled trial	9
The Use of Social Marketing in Community-Wide Physical Activity Programs: A Scoping Review	9
Optimizing the Use of Personal Values to Promote Medication Adherence: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Affective and Behavioral Responses to Theory-Driven Domain Congruent Versus Incongruent V	9
Perseverative Cognition as a Mediator Between Perceived Stress and Sleep Disturbance: A Structural Equation Modeling Meta-analysis (meta-SEM)	9
Interventions to Reduce Lung Cancer and COPD-Related Stigma: A Systematic Review	9
Correction to: Implementation of a Telehealth Smoking Cessation Program in Primarily Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Black Patients: Courage to Quit Rolling-Virtual (CTQ-RV)	9
Bidirectional Relations Between Daily Stress and Sleep Among Black Emerging Adults	9
Mitigating fraud in a fully decentralized clinical trial of a digital health intervention	9
Depressive symptoms are not longitudinally associated with joint glycemic, blood pressure and cholesterol control among middle-aged and older adults with diabetes in USA	9
COVID Protection Behaviors, Mental Health, Risk Perceptions, and Control Beliefs: A Dynamic Temporal Network Analysis of Daily Diary Data	8
Motivational Interviewing in Pediatric Obesity: A Meta-analysis of the Effects on Behavioral Outcomes	8
Supporting endocrine therapy adherence in women with breast cancer: findings from the ROSETA pilot fractional factorial randomized trial	8
The United States is facing unprecedented challenges in the field of health and health care: what can and should we do about it? A call to action	8
Effect of the Fit2Thrive Intervention on Patient-reported Outcomes in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Full Factorial Trial	8
A scoping review of empirical research on firearms and firearm violence among sexual and gender minority populations in the United States	8

Attitudes regarding polygenic risk testing for lung cancer: a mixed-methods study	8
Predicting the side effects of influenza vaccination	8
Exploring the Multidimensional Relationship Between Medication Beliefs and Adherence to Medications Among Older Adults Living With Multimorbidity Using Polynomial Regression: An Observational Cohort S	8
Social Support Buffers the Effect of Social Deprivation on Comorbidity Burden in Adults with Cancer	8
A Postpartum Weight Loss-focused Stepped-care Intervention in a Military Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial	8
Affective Response to Exercise and Affective Judgments as Predictors of Physical Activity Intention and Behavior among New Mothers in their first 6-Months Postpartum	8
Insights into effective fatigue reducing interventions in kidney transplant candidates: a scoping review	8
Outcome expectations and repeated blood donation behavior: a moderated mediation model in a prospective observational study	8
Examining Daily Associations Among Sleep, Stress, and Blood Pressure Across Adulthood	7
A Qualitative Examination of Tobacco Use and Smoking Cessation Among Gender Minority Adults	7
Subjective Social Status and Longitudinal Changes in Systemic Inflammation	7
Personal Resources and Total Pain: Exploring the Multiple Mediation of Fear of Recurrence, Meaning-Making, and Coping in Posttreatment Cancer Patients	7
Global Accelerometer-derived Physical Activity Levels from Preschoolers to Adolescents: A Multilevel Meta-analysis and Meta-regression	7
The Role of Seed Users in Nurturing an Online Health Community for Smoking Cessation Among People With HIV/AIDS	7
Activation Versus Change as a Principle Underlying Intervention Strategies to Promote Health Behaviors	7
Emotional Distress and Physical Activity Engagement in U.S. Veterans With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Qualitative Study	7
Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Effective for Improving Sleep Duration in Individuals with Insomnia? A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	7
The differential role of spousal collaboration on pain reactivity to daily stressors in older couples with and without multiple chronic conditions	7
App-based mindfulness meditation reduces stress in novice meditators: a randomized controlled trial of headspace using ecological momentary assessment	6
Changes in daily stress reactivity and changes in physical health across 18 years of adulthood	6
Socially Acquired Nocebo Effects Generalize but Are Not Attenuated by Choice	6
Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based Family-Centered Decision Support Tool About Firearm Storage	6
Weight loss advice from a healthcare provider is motivating, but it is also stigmatizing: an experimental, scenario-based approach	6
Pain in People Experiencing Homelessness: A Scoping Review	6
Daily Sleep–Stress Reactivity and Functional Impairment in World Trade Center Responders	6
Identifying Mediators of Intervention Effects Within a Randomized Controlled Trial to Motivate Cancer Genetic Risk Assessment Among Breast and Ovarian Cancer Survivors	6
Genome-Wide Genetic Analysis of Dropout in a Controlled Exercise Intervention in Sedentary Adults With Overweight or Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease	6
“I Beat Cancer to Feel Sick:” Qualitative Experiences of Sleep Disturbance in Black Breast Cancer Survivors and Recommendations for Culturally Targeted Sleep Interventions	6
The Perceived Stress Scale as a Measure of Stress: Decomposing Score Variance in Longitudinal Behavioral Medicine Studies	6
Cannabinoid content on product labels influences cannabis health perceptions	6
More Frequent Solitary Alcohol Consumption Is Associated With Poorer Diet Quality, Worse Sleep, Higher Body Mass Index, and More Problematic Alcohol Use	6
Twenty years of intervention optimization	6
Social Ecological Influences on Nicotine/Tobacco Use Among Gender-Varying and Gender-Stable Adolescents and Adults in the USA	6
Efficacy of the Diabetes Prevention Program Group Lifestyle Balance Program Modified for Individuals with TBI (GLB-TBI): Results from a 12-month Randomized Controlled Trial	6
Correction to: Global Accelerometer-derived Physical Activity Levels from Preschoolers to Adolescents: A Multilevel Meta-analysis and Meta-regression	6
Caregivers’ Internet-Delivered Insomnia Intervention Engagement and Benefit: SHUTi-CARE Trial Primary Quantitative Analysis	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Cancer Prevention and Survivorship Research	5
Behavior Change Techniques Involved in Physical Activity Interventions for Children With Chronic Conditions: A Systematic Review	5
Stretching the Scope of Behavioral Interventions: Proceedings of the 4th International Behavioural Trials Network Hybrid Meeting	5
Implementation of a Telehealth Smoking Cessation Program in Primarily Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Black Patients: Courage to Quit Rolling-Virtual (CTQ-RV)	5
Behavioral interventions—past, present, and future: Proceedings of the 5th International Behavioural Trials Network International Hybrid Meeting	5
Social Environmental Predictors of Lapse in Dietary Behavior: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Amongst Dutch Adults Trying to Lose Weight	5
A blended mindfulness-based stress reduction program to improve diabetes self-management among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a mediation effect analysis	5
Sexual identity differences in ideal cardiovascular health among cisgender adults in the All of Us Research Program	5
Health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes among cancer survivors in an insomnia intervention: a randomized controlled trial	5
Bidirectional Relationships Between Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Physical Inactivity in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Cohort Study	5
Perceived Control and Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review	5
Peer-to-peer: The Social Transmission of Symptoms Online	5
Behavioral medicine in the GLP-1 era	5
Emotional Distress Symptoms, Coping Efficacy, and Social Support: A Network Analysis of Distress and Resources in Persons With Cancer	5
Examining the Long-term Association Between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Obesity and Obesity-related Unhealthy Behaviors Among Children: Results From the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing	5
Provided and received positive and negative social control, relationship satisfaction, and sedentary behavior in parent-child dyads	5
Tobacco Cessation Interventions in Non-Respiratory Cancers: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	5
Effective Behavior Change Techniques in Digital Health Interventions for the Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: An Umbrella Review	5
Relevance of Behavioral Research in the Evolving State of Anti-obesity Medications: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?	5
Thank You to All of the Following for Their Reviews in 2022	4
The Role of Environmental Context and Physical Activity in Prescribed Opioid Use and Pain in Daily Life among Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain	4
Predictors and Effects of Participation in Peer Support: A Prospective Structural Equation Modeling Analysis	4
Dulce Digital-Me: results of a randomized comparative trial of static versus adaptive digital interventions for Latine adults with diabetes	4
Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Standard Versus Postures-Only Yoga Session: Potential Self-Regulatory and Neurophysiological Mechanisms of an Ancient Practice	4
Psychological Stress Management and Stress Reduction Strategies for Stroke Survivors: A Scoping Review	4
Screen time and allostatic load among youth: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2015-2018	4
Physical activity promotion based on positive psychology: development and piloting of a novel intervention approach	4
Diabetes-specific family functioning typology associated with intervention engagement and effects: secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial	4
Clustering of Health Behaviors in Canadians: A Multiple Behavior Analysis of Data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	4
Predictors of Change in Vaccination Decisions Among the Vaccine Hesitant: Examining the Roles of Age and Intolerance of Uncertainty	4
Who Benefits From Helping? Moderators of the Association Between Informal Helping and Mortality	4
Development and Validation of a Two-component Perceived Control Measure	4
Physical activity coaching in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic literature review with meta-analysis	4
Expectations Versus Fantasies and Vaccine Hesitancy: How Suffering From COVID-19 Versus Suffering From Vaccines Interact	4
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Minority Health in Behavioral Medicine: An Introduction to the Continuing Series	4
Metabolic Syndrome, Modifiable Lifestyle Factors, and Sleep-Disordered Breathing: The Hispanic Community Health Study	4
Combining Inserts With Warning Labels on Cigarette Packs to Promote Smoking Cessation: A 2-Week Randomized Trial	4
Improving the design and analytic methods used in NIH-funded clinical trials involving behavioral interventions	4
Preschool Executive Control, Temperament, and Adolescent Dietary Behaviors	4
Introduction to the Special Section: Behavioral Medicine Research on Stigma and the Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Populations	4
Digital, Social Micro-Interventions to Promote Physical Activity Among Midlife Adults With Elevated Cardiovascular Risk: An Ambulatory Feasibility Study With Momentary Randomization	4
Women’s Relationships With Healthcare and Providers: The Role of Weight Stigma in Healthcare and Weight Bias Internalization	4