OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Health Psychology is 2. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue	194
Compliance without fear: Individual‐level protective behaviour during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic	130
Health behaviour change during the UK COVID‐19 lockdown: Findings from the first wave of the C‐19 health behaviour and well‐being daily tracker study	95
Explaining the rise and fall of psychological distress during the COVID‐19 crisis in the United States: Longitudinal evidence from the Understanding America Study	94
Determinants of physical activity among adults in the United Kingdom during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The DUK‐COVID study	77
Stockpiling in the time of COVID‐19	56
Reasoned action approach and compliance with recommended behaviours to prevent the transmission of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus in the UK	55
Efficacy information influences intention to take COVID‐19 vaccine	52
Psychological, social, and situational factors associated with COVID‐19 vaccination intentions: A study of UK key workers and non‐key workers	47
Habit formation following routine‐based versus time‐based cue planning: A randomized controlled trial	47
Evolution of physical activity habits after a context change: The case of COVID‐19 lockdown	45
Determinants of protective behaviours during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic	43
Chronic pain in the time of COVID‐19: Stress aftermath and central sensitization	39
Pro‐vaccination subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intentions	37
The impact of COVID‐19 on health behaviour, well‐being, and long‐term physical health	36
Mental health of Italian adults during COVID‐19 pandemic	36
Hedonic and eudaimonic well‐being during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy: The role of stigma and appraisals	26
Longitudinal associations of meaning in life and psychosocial adjustment to the COVID‐19 outbreak in China	25
How do we harness adolescent values in designing health behaviour change interventions? A qualitative study	23
‘Oh no, not a group!’ The factors that lonely or isolated people report as barriers to joining groups for health and well‐being	22
Perceived threat of COVID‐19, attitudes towards vaccination, and vaccine hesitancy: A prospective longitudinal study in the UK	22
Using behavioural theory to understand adherence to behaviours that reduce transmission of COVID‐19; evidence from the CHARIS representative national study	21
Investigating which behaviour change techniques work for whom in which contexts delivered by what means: Proposal for an international collaboratory of Centres for Understanding Behaviour Change (CUBi	20
Does self‐compassion help to deal with dietary lapses among overweight and obese adults who pursue weight‐loss goals?	19
The influence of context stability on physical activity and sedentary behaviour habit and behaviour: An ecological momentary assessment study	17

Stigma is associated with illness self‐concept in individuals with concealable chronic illnesses	17
Do age stereotype‐based interventions affect health‐related outcomes in older adults? A systematic review and future directions	16
Interventions to increase personal protective behaviours to limit the spread of respiratory viruses: A rapid evidence review and meta‐analysis	15
Welcoming new life under lockdown: Exploring the experiences of first‐time mothers who gave birth during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
What makes one feel eustress or distress in quarantine? An analysis from conservation of resources (COR) theory	15
Experiences and predictors of psychological distress in pregnant women living with HIV	15
Social nudges for vaccination: How communicating herd behaviour influences vaccination intentions	15
Therapists’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to uptake and engagement with therapy in long‐term conditions	15
Holding a stigmatizing attitude at the start of the COVID‐19 outbreak: A cross‐sectional survey	14
What is it like to live with a functional movement disorder? An interpretative phenomenological analysis of illness experiences from symptom onset to post‐diagnosis	14
Comfort eating: An observational study of affect in the hours immediately before, and after, snacking	13
‘Just keep taking them, keep hoping they’ll work’: A qualitative study of adhering to medications for multimorbidity	13
Social group memberships, physical activity, and physical health following retirement: A six‐year follow‐up from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing	12
Fears for the future: A qualitative exploration of the experiences of individuals living with multiple sclerosis, and its impact upon the family from the perspective of the person with MS	11
The effect of calorie and physical activity equivalent labelling of alcoholic drinks on drinking intentions in participants of higher and lower socioeconomic position: An experimental study	11
The experiences of palliative care professionals and their responses to work‐related stress: A qualitative study	11
Intention to adhere to test, trace, and isolate during the COVID‐19 pandemic (the COVID‐19 Rapid Survey of Adherence to Interventions and Responses study)	10
‘Your face freezes and so does your life’: A qualitative exploration of adults’ psychosocial experiences of living with acquired facial palsy	10
Outlining an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach to treatment non‐adherence	10
A survey of eating styles in eight countries: Examining restrained, emotional, intuitive eating and their correlates	10
Procrastination and health: A longitudinal test of the roles of stress and health behaviours	10
Experiences of completed and withdrawn unspecified kidney donor candidates in the United Kingdom: An inductive thematic analysis from the BOUnD study	10
The dynamic relationship between subjective social status and health: Evidence from a Chinese cohort study	9
Depression, anxiety, perceived stress, and their changes predicted medical adherence over 9 months among patients with coronary heart disease	9
The relationship between illness identity and the self‐management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease	9
Identifying targets for interventions to support public use of face coverings	9
Accessing specialist support to stop smoking in pregnancy: A qualitative study exploring engagement with UK‐based stop smoking services	8
Individual differences in meditation interventions: A meta‐analytic study	8
Is cognitive behaviour therapy an effective option for women who have troublesome menopausal symptoms?	8
Staying ‘Covid‐safe’: Proposals for embedding behaviours that protect against Covid‐19 transmission in the UK	8
Mind the gap: Habit and self‐determined motivation predict health behaviours in middle‐aged and older adults	8
“… because I'm so drunk at the time, the last thing I'm going to think about is calories”: Strengthening the argument for Drunkorexia as a food and alcohol disturbance, evidence from a qualitative stu	7
Can sweet food‐specific inhibitory control training via a mobile application improve eating behavior in children with obesity?	7
The vital role of health psychology in the response to COVID‐19	7
Treatment‐related decisional conflict in pre‐dialysis chronic kidney disease patients in Singapore: Prevalence and determinants	7
Experiences of cognitive training on primary breast cancer survivor's cognitive impairments at work: A longitudinal qualitative study	7
‘Lonely in my head’: The experiences of loneliness in individuals with brain injury	7
A grounded theory of type 2 diabetes prevention and risk perception	7
Interpretations of partners’ responses to pain behaviours: Perspectives of patients and partners	7
Psychological functioning and well‐being before and after bariatric surgery; what is the benefit of being self‐compassionate?	7
Chronic stress experience, sleep, and physical activity: Relations with change in negative affect and acute stress response to a naturalistic stressor	7
Parenting an adolescent with complex regional pain syndrome: A dyadic qualitative investigation of resilience	7
Utility of temporal self‐regulation theory in health and social behaviours: A meta‐analysis	7
Living with type 1 diabetes mellitus in emerging adulthood: A qualitative study	7
The effects of social interactions on momentary stress and mood during COVID‐19 lockdowns	6
The Cognitive and Behavioural Responses to Symptoms Questionnaire (CBRQ): Development, reliability and validity across several long‐term conditions	6
Using the COM‐B model to characterize the barriers and facilitators of pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake in men who have sex with men	6
Social‐cognitive predictors of parental supervised toothbrushing: An application of the health action process approach	6
How conceptualizing obesity as a disease affects beliefs about weight, and associated weight stigma and clinical decision‐making in health care	6
Positive and negative aspects of mental health after unspecified living kidney donation: A cohort study	6

“I sort of never felt like I should be worried about it or that I could be worried about it’” an interpretative phenomenological analysis of perceived barriers to disclosure by young people with coeli	6
‘Maturing Out’ as dilemmatic: Transitions towards relatively light drinking practices among UK University students	6
Physiotherapy informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic low back pain: A mixed‐methods treatment fidelity evaluation	6
Using counterfactual thinking theory to change alcohol protective behavioural strategy use intentions	6
Expecting the best or fearing the worst: Discrepancies between self‐rated health and frailty in an ageing Irish population	6
Personal condition but social cure: Agentic ingroups elevate well‐being in chronically ill patients through perceptions of personal control	6
Development and testing of a digital health acceptability model to explain the intention to use a digital diabetes prevention programme	6
Do preparatory behaviours predict alcohol consumption among UK university students?	6
What makes implementation intentions (in)effective for physical activity among older adults?	6
Linking measures to mechanisms of action: An expert opinion study	5
What psychological interventions are effective for the management of persistent physical symptoms (PPS)? A systematic review and meta‐analysis	5
The acceptability of primary care or community‐based behavioural interventions for persistent physical symptoms: Qualitative systematic review	5
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the development and maintenance of gluten‐related distress and unhelpful eating and lifestyle patterns in coeliac disease	5
Clinicians' implicit and explicit attitudes about the legitimacy of functional neurological disorders correlate with referral decisions	5
Health‐related guilt in chronic primary pain: A systematic review of evidence	5
Exploring barriers and enablers to the delivery of Making Every Contact Count brief behavioural interventions in Ireland: A cross‐sectional survey study	5
Identifying the active ingredients of cardiac rehabilitation: A behaviour change technique and qualitative analysis	5
A systematic review evaluating metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety and somatic distress	5
Influencing medication taking behaviors using automated two‐way digital communication: A narrative synthesis systematic review informed by the Behavior Change Wheel	5
‘It's not my greengrocer, it's someone from the medical profession’: A qualitative study regarding acceptability of deceptive and open‐label placebo prescribing in France	5
Calling time on responsible drinking: A qualitative study of perceptions of information on alcohol product labels	5
Barriers and enablers to delivering opportunistic behaviour change interventions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A qualitative study in healthcare professionals	5
A systematic review of the barriers and facilitators to adherence to mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy for those with chronic conditions	5
Real beauty: Effects of a body‐positive video on body image and capacity to mitigate exposure to social media images	5
‘That’s just how I am’: a qualitative interview study to identify factors influencing engagement with a digital intervention for tinnitus self‐management	5
Informal carers’ experiences of caring for someone with Multiple Sclerosis: A photovoice investigation	5
Identifying behaviour change techniques within randomized trials of interventions promoting deceased organ donation registration	4
Investigating the role of self‐control beliefs in predicting exercise behaviour: A longitudinal study	4
The Beliefs About Breastfeeding Questionnaire (BAB‐Q): A psychometric validation study	4
Understanding the barriers and facilitators to using self‐sampling packs for sexually transmitted infections and blood‐borne viruses: Thematic analyses for intervention optimization	4
Type D personality and blunted cardiovascular stress reactivity: Role of task engagement	4
Understanding self‐affirmation effects: The moderating role of self‐esteem	4
Patients’ expectations of cancer treatment and their perceived link to subsequent experiences: A qualitative study	4
Debunking nutrition myths: An experimental test of the ‘truth sandwich’ text format	4
‘An extra fight I didn't ask for’: A qualitative survey exploring the impact of calories on menus for people with experience of eating disorders	4
Developing theory‐based asthma self‐management interventions for South Asians and African Americans: A systematic review	4
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Examining drivers of self‐harm guideline implementation by general practitioners: A qualitative analysis using the theoretical domains framework	4
Reasons for using indoor tanning devices: A systematic review of qualitative evidence	4
Illness representations and psychological outcomes in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia	3
Does a lack of social support and perceived stigma influence the relationship between motor neurone disease‐related stress and psychological distress?	3
Application of the theoretical framework of acceptability in a surgical setting: Theoretical and methodological insights	3
Mental imagery‐based self‐regulation: Effects on physical activity behaviour and its cognitive and affective precursors over time	3
A longitudinal analysis of Australian women's fruit and vegetable consumption and depressive symptoms	3
Using the behaviour change wheel approach to optimize self‐sampling packs for sexually transmitted infection and blood borne viruses	3
Unpacking COVID‐19 and conspiracy theories in the UK black community	3
Measuring online health‐seeking behaviour: Construction and initial validation of a new scale	3
How the COVID‐19 crisis affected the well‐being of nurses working in paediatric critical care: A qualitative study	3
Hyperglycaemia aversion in type 1 diabetes: A grounded theory study	3
Do metacognitive beliefs predict rumination and psychological distress independently of illness representations in adults with diabetes mellitus? A prospective mediation study	3
Designing family‐based interventions in kidney failure: The perspectives of the triad 'patients on haemodialysis/family caregivers/healthcare professionals	3
Investigating the utility of the COM‐B and TM model to explain changes in eating behaviour during pregnancy: A longitudinal cohort study	3
Motivational and self‐efficacy reciprocal effects during a 12‐month' weight regain prevention program	2
Stress buffering after physical activity engagement: An experience sampling study	2
Testing the content for a targeted age‐relevant intervention to promote cervical screening uptake in women aged 50–64 years	2
Influence of illness representations on coping strategies and psychosocial outcomes of infertility: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	2
Engagement with arts and culture activities in the Danish general population: Longitudinal associations with new onset or persistent depression and mental wellbeing	2
Conspiracy beliefs and intention to use conventional, complementary and alternative medicines: Two vignette studies	2
Exploring the complexities of illness identity and symptom management in seeking a diagnostic label of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS): An inductive approach	2
“We want to live a little longer and our family want[s] us around”: A summative content analysis of adherence to COVID‐19‐related guidelines using the Theoretical Domains Framework	2
A qualitative study utilizing Interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore disclosure in adolescents with turner syndrome	2
Exploring patient experiences of participating in digital cardiac rehabilitation: A qualitative study	2
Greater negative affect reduction expectancies moderate the interactive relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and distress tolerance in predicting loss‐of‐control eating	2
Prevalence and trajectories of subjective cognitive complaints and implications for patient outcomes: A prospective study of haemodialysis patients	2
Habit formation in context: Context‐specific and context‐free measures for tracking fruit consumption habit formation and behaviour	2
Observing physicians acting with different levels of empathy modulates later assessed pain tolerance	2
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Evidence that implementation intentions reduce self‐harm in the community	2
An in‐school social norms approach intervention for reducing unhealthy snacking behaviours amongst 11–12‐year‐olds	2
The development and validation of the Worries About Recurrence or Progression Scale (WARPS)	2
Exploring the psychosexual impact and disclosure experiences of women testing positive for high‐risk cervical human papillomavirus	2
‘Like a ticking time bomb’: A qualitative study exploring the illness experiences of adults with kidney stone disease	2
Life beyond life: Perceptions of post‐mortem organ donation and consent to donate—A focus group study in Italy	2
Targeting emotional regulation using an Internet‐delivered psychological intervention for cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial	2
The experience of relatives and friends of patients with moderate to advanced chronic kidney disease: Insights from the CKD‐REIN cohort study	2
Reducing touching eyes, nose and mouth (‘T‐zone’) to reduce the spread of infectious disease: A prospective study of motivational, volitional and non‐reflective predictors	2
Are commonly used lab‐based measures of food value and choice predictive of self‐reported real‐world snacking? An ecological momentary assessment study	2
Intervention fidelity assessment: A sub‐study of the Norfolk Diabetes Prevention Study (NDPS)	2
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‘We just need to find space for them to practice so that we can help to make a stronger society’: Perceived barriers and facilitators to employing health psychologists in UK public health and clinical	2