OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology & Health is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Informal caregiver burden for solid tumour cancer patients: a review and future directions	40
Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions: twenty-one questions to guide future research	38
Physical activity and stress management during COVID-19: a longitudinal survey study	32
How has COVID-19 lockdown impacted smoking? A thematic analysis of written accounts from UK smokers	27
A meta-analysis of the impact of point of view on narrative processing and persuasion in health messaging	26
Cancer patients’ participation and commitment to psychological interventions: a scoping review	24
Relationships between social interactions, basic psychological needs, and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Application of the trans-contextual model to predict change in leisure time physical activity	22
Understanding the psychosocial determinants of Italian parents’ intentions not to vaccinate their children: an extended theory of planned behaviour model	20
A combined health action process approach and mHealth intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in university students – a randomized controlled trial	19
Using decision aids to support self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
COVID-19 fear mediates the relationship between perceived risk and preventive behaviors: the moderating role of perceived effectiveness	19
Predicting physical distancing over time during COVID-19: testing an integrated model	18
An inductive qualitative content analysis of stigma experienced by people with rare diseases	18
Medication nonadherence: health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions	18
Healthcare professional behaviour: health impact, prevalence of evidence-based behaviours, correlates and interventions	18
“We shouldn’t waste a good crisis”: the lived experience of working on the frontline through the first surge (and beyond) of COVID-19 in the UK and Ireland	17
Character strengths sustain mental health and post-traumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. A longitudinal analysis	17
Predictors of protective behaviours during the Italian Covid-19 pandemic: an application of protection motivation theory	15
A systematic review and qualitative synthesis of the experience of living with colorectal cancer as a chronic illness	14
Purposefulness and daily life in a pandemic: Predicting daily affect and physical symptoms during the first weeks of the COVID-19 response	14
Psychological distress in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: the joint contribution of intolerance of uncertainty and cyberchondria	14
Perceived barriers and facilitators to attendance for cervical cancer screening in EU member states: a systematic review and synthesis using the Theoretical Domains Framework	14
Barriers and enablers to influenza vaccination uptake in adults with chronic respiratory conditions: applying the behaviour change wheel to specify multi-levelled tailored intervention content	13
Identifying the outcomes of participating in peer mentorship for adults living with spinal cord injury: a qualitative meta-synthesis	13

Compliance with COVID-19 public health guidelines: an attitude-behaviour gap bridged by personal concern and distance to conspiracy ideation	13
Health literacy, resilience and perceived stress of migrants in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Understanding the predictors of hand hygiene using aspects of the theory of planned behaviour and temporal self-regulation theory	12
The mediating effect of media usage on the relationship between anxiety/fear and physician–patient trust during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Making sense of COVID-19: a longitudinal investigation of the initial stages of developing illness representations	12
Psychological outcomes, coping and illness perceptions among parents of children with neurological disorders	11
A qualitative analysis of people’s experiences with weight-based discrimination	11
Public opinion in vaccine allocation priority: who comes first?	11
Viral mitigation and the COVID-19 pandemic: factors associated with adherence to social distancing protocols and hygienic behaviour	11
Proposing a new approach to funding behavioural interventions using iterative methods	11
Dynamic relations among COVID-19-related media exposure and worries during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Psychometric evaluations of the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R), based on nine samples	11
Coping with COVID-19: social representations underlying blaming processes and fear	11
A systematic review of compassion-based interventions for individuals struggling with body weight shame	11
Determinants of routine cervical screening participation in underserved women: a qualitative systematic review	11
The role of disgust as an emotional barrier to colorectal cancer screening participation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Personality, health behaviours and physical health in young adulthood	10
“I listen to my body now”: a qualitative exploration of positive body image in breast cancer survivors	10
A novel self-report scale of interoception: the three-domain interoceptive sensations questionnaire (THISQ)	10
First test of the theory of reasoned goal pursuit: predicting physical activity	10
Predictors of lapse and relapse in physical activity and dietary behaviour: a systematic search and review on prospective studies	10
The Aussie-FIT process evaluation: feasibility and acceptability of a weight loss intervention for men, delivered in Australian Football League settings	10
Think positive! Emotional response to assertiveness in positive and negative language promoting preventive health behaviors	10
Make it a habit: how habit strength, goal importance and self-control predict hand washing behaviour over time during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Is there a combined effect of depression and cognitive reserve on cognitive function? Findings from a population-based study	9
Perceived stigmatization and fear of negative evaluation: Two distinct pathways to body image dissatisfaction and self-esteem in burn survivors	9
Self-care behaviors, drinking, and smoking to cope with psychological distress during COVID-19 among Chinese college students: the role of resilience	9
An evaluation of goal setting in the NHS England diabetes prevention programme	9
A virtual resiliency program for lymphoma survivors: helping survivors cope with post-treatment challenges	8
‘You see the pictures the morning after and you’re like I wish I was in them’: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of university student’s alcohol-related regrets	8
Generalized self-efficacy and compliance with health behaviours related to COVID-19 in the US	8
Bidirectional associations between meaning in life and the health, emotional ill-being and daily life functioning outcomes among older adults	8
COVID-19-Related anxieties and parenting stress among first-time mothers and fathers in their first year of parenthood	8
Group-based trajectories and predictors of adherence to physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Does it matter if a story character lives or dies?: a message experiment comparing survivor and death narratives	8
Domain specific association between physical activity and affect in adolescents’ daily lives: an ecological momentary assessment study	8
The role of perceived level of threat, reactance proneness, political orientation, and coronavirus salience on health behavior intentions	8
Stress, coping, and positive aspects of caregiving among caregivers of children with rare disease	8
A latent profile analysis to assess physical, cognitive and emotional symptom clusters in women with breast cancer	7
The mutual determination of self-efficacy to cope with cancer and cancer-related coping over time: a prospective study in women with breast cancer	7
Absolute and comparative risk assessments: evidence for the utility of incorporating internal comparisons into models of risk perception	7
Purpose in life and accelerometer-measured physical activity among older adults	7
Cross-sectional and prospective associations between stress, perseverative cognition and health behaviours	7
A dual process model to predict adolescents’ screen time and physical activity	7
Effect of depression and anxiety on sexual functioning in couples trying to conceive with and without an infertility diagnosis	7
Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the role of psychological flexibility and stress-related variables	7
Assessing sleep problems and daytime functioning: a translation, adaption, and validation of the Athens Insomnia Scale for non-clinical application (AIS-NCA)	7
Within-Person variations in mindfulness mediate effects of daily stressors on psychological distress in adolescence	7
A qualitative exploration of health-related quality of life and health behaviours in children with sickle cell disease and healthy siblings	7
Benefit finding moderates the relationship between young carer experiences and mental well-being	7

Effects of a 12-week HIIT + group mediated cognitive behavioural intervention on quality of life among inactive adults with coeliac disease: findings from the pilot MOVE-C study	6
Improving adult eating behaviours by manipulating time perspective: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Changes in virus-transmission habits during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-national, repeated measures study	6
What is it like to live with medically unexplained physical symptoms? A qualitative meta-summary	6
Psychological reactance and vaccine uptake: a longitudinal study	6
Correlates of distress in young people with cystic fibrosis: the role of self-efficacy and metacognitive beliefs	6
Understanding sport coaches’ turnover intention and well-being: an environmental psychology approach	6
Development and validation of the treatmentself-regulation questionnaire assessing healthcare professionals’ motivation for flu vaccination (TSRQ-Flu)	6
Psychometric evaluation of the Health-Risk Attitude Scale (HRAS-13): assessing the reliability, dimensionality and validity in the general population and a patient population	6
Gender, sexual orientation, and mental health in the kink community: an application of coping self-efficacy theory	6
Clinical application of mindfulness-oriented meditation in children with ADHD: a preliminary study on sleep and behavioral problems	6
A secondary analysis examining the performance of the State Optimism Measure (SOM) compared to the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) in measuring optimism over time	6
Health literacy and health behaviors in parent-adolescent dyads: an actor-partner interdependence model approach	6
Coping with fibromyalgia during the COVID-19 pandemic: adjustment and wellbeing	6
Examination of the tripartite model of youth caregiving in the context of parental illness	6
Perceived mattering in the face of COVID-19: links with emotion regulation and psychological well-being	6
Drawing the COVID-19 pandemic: how do children incorporate the health crisis and its consequences into their everyday thinking?	6
The interplay between cognitive and affective risks in predicting COVID-19 precautions: a longitudinal representative study of Americans	6
Seasonal flu vaccination, a matter of emotion? An experimental study on role of compassion, socioeconomic status and perceived threat among healthcare workers	6
Deliberate ignorance—a barrier for information interventions targeting reduced meat consumption?	5
Resilience from childhood to young adulthood: retrospective perspectives of deaf and hard of hearing people who studied in regular schools	5
When infographics work better: the interplay between temporal frame and message format in e-health communication	5
What does feeling younger or older than one’s chronological age mean to men and women? Qualitative and quantitative findings from the PROTECT study	5
Pathways from adolescent screen time to eating related symptoms: a multilevel longitudinal mediation analysis through self-esteem	5
The effects of an intervention to improve mental health during the COVID-19 quarantine: comparison with a COVID control group, and a pre-COVID intervention group	5
Self-affirmation inductions to reduce defensive processing of threatening health risk information	5
The effects of the Dark Triad personality traits on health protective behaviours: dyadic approach on self-reports and partner-reports	5
Socioeconomic status and medication adherence among youth with asthma: the mediating role of frequency of children’s daily routines	5
The role of emotion covariation and psychological flexibility in coping with chronic physical pain: an integrative model	5
Am I a responsible drinker? The impact of message frame and drinker prototypes on perceptions of alcohol product information labels	5
Personal resources associated with peripartum depression among mothers of NICU hospitalised preterm infants	5
Security motives and negative affective experiences during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and coronary heart disease: an empirical examination of heart rate variability and coronary stenosis	5
An exploratory clinical trial on acceptance and commitment therapy as an adjunct to psychoeducational relaxation therapy for chronic pain	5
Meaningful change definitions: sample size planning for experimental intervention research	5
‘I knew it wasn’t normal, I just didn’t know what to do about it’: adversity and caregiver support when growing up in a family with Huntington’s disease	5
Mindfulness and self-compassion in dermatological conditions: a systematic narrative review	5