British Journal of Health Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Health Psychology is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Daily emotional well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic245
Towards intervention development to increase the uptake of COVID‐19 vaccination among those at high risk: Outlining evidence‐based and theoretically informed future intervention content191
Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID‐19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue179
Risk factors for psychological distress during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Israel: Loneliness, age, gender, and health status play an important role159
Exposure to coronavirus news on mainstream media: The role of risk perceptions and depression133
COVID‐19‐related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population127
Compliance without fear: Individual‐level protective behaviour during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic119
Using an integrated social cognition model to predict COVID‐19 preventive behaviours119
How can use of the Theoretical Domains Framework be optimized in qualitative research? A rapid systematic review107
Demographic and health factors associated with pandemic anxiety in the context of COVID‐19106
Looking out for myself: Exploring the relationship between conspiracy mentality, perceived personal risk, and COVID‐19 prevention measures98
Acceptability, reliability, and validity of a brief measure of capabilities, opportunities, and motivations (“COM‐B”)90
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 study89
Explaining the rise and fall of psychological distress during the COVID‐19 crisis in the United States: Longitudinal evidence from the Understanding America Study86
Coronavirus (COVID‐19) in the United Kingdom: A personality‐based perspective on concerns and intention to self‐isolate70
Health psychology and the coronavirus (COVID‐19) global pandemic: A call for research70
Determinants of physical activity among adults in the United Kingdom during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The DUK‐COVID study66
Understanding face mask use to prevent coronavirus and other illnesses: Development of a multidimensional face mask perceptions scale63
Capability, opportunity, and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID‐19 outbreak in the United Kingdom57
The psychosocial impact of facial palsy: A systematic review55
Reducing SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission in the UK: A behavioural science approach to identifying options for increasing adherence to social distancing and shielding vulnerable people53
Stockpiling in the time of COVID‐1953
Reasoned action approach and compliance with recommended behaviours to prevent the transmission of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus in the UK48
Efficacy information influences intention to take COVID‐19 vaccine47
The coronavirus (COVID‐19) fatality risk perception of US adult residents in March and April 202046
Psychological, social, and situational factors associated with COVID‐19 vaccination intentions: A study of UK key workers and non‐key workers44
Evolution of physical activity habits after a context change: The case of COVID‐19 lockdown43
COVID‐19: Concerns and behaviours in Croatia43
Determinants of protective behaviours during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic40
Environmental and psychological variables influencing reactions to the COVID‐19 outbreak39
Habit formation following routine‐based versus time‐based cue planning: A randomized controlled trial38
Chronic pain in the time of COVID‐19: Stress aftermath and central sensitization38
Pro‐vaccination subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intentions32
Mental health of Italian adults during COVID‐19 pandemic31
Preferences for scarce medical resource allocation: Differences between experts and the general public and implications for the COVID‐19 pandemic29
The impact of COVID‐19 on health behaviour, well‐being, and long‐term physical health27
Hedonic and eudaimonic well‐being during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy: The role of stigma and appraisals25
Longitudinal associations of meaning in life and psychosocial adjustment to the COVID‐19 outbreak in China23
How do we harness adolescent values in designing health behaviour change interventions? A qualitative study21
Living with persistent insomnia after cancer: A qualitative analysis of impact and management21
Women's experience of social media breastfeeding support and its impact on extended breastfeeding success: A social cognitive perspective21
Parallel worlds and personified pain: A mixed‐methods analysis of pain metaphor use by women with endometriosis21
Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end‐stage renal disease: A prospective cohort study20
Using behavioural theory to understand adherence to behaviours that reduce transmission of COVID‐19; evidence from the CHARIS representative national study19
‘Barbed wire wrapped around my feet’: Metaphor use in chronic pain19
‘Oh no, not a group!’ The factors that lonely or isolated people report as barriers to joining groups for health and well‐being18
Habits and self‐efficacy moderate the effects of intentions and planning on physical activity18
Perceived threat of COVID‐19, attitudes towards vaccination, and vaccine hesitancy: A prospective longitudinal study in the UK17
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 (CUBi17
Does self‐compassion help to deal with dietary lapses among overweight and obese adults who pursue weight‐loss goals?16
Ready Exerciser One: Effects of music and virtual reality on cycle ergometer exercise16
Primary care providers' use of and attitudes towards placebos: An exploratory focus group study with US physicians16
An oral history of health psychology in the UK15
What makes one feel eustress or distress in quarantine? An analysis from conservation of resources (COR) theory15
The influence of context stability on physical activity and sedentary behaviour habit and behaviour: An ecological momentary assessment study14
The effect of symptom‐tracking apps on symptom reporting14
Therapists’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to uptake and engagement with therapy in long‐term conditions14
Autism research is ‘all about the blokes and the kids’: Autistic women breaking the silence on menopause14
Holding a stigmatizing attitude at the start of the COVID‐19 outbreak: A cross‐sectional survey13
Experiences and predictors of psychological distress in pregnant women living with HIV13
Thematic analysis of acceptability and fidelity of engagement for behaviour change interventions: The Let’s Move It intervention interview study13
Effectiveness of psychological interventions for smoking cessation in adults with mental health problems: A systematic review13
Do age stereotype‐based interventions affect health‐related outcomes in older adults? A systematic review and future directions12
Effectiveness of a self‐regulation intervention for weight loss: A randomized controlled trial12
Psychosocial needs of adolescents and young adults with eczema: A secondary analysis of qualitative data to inform a behaviour change intervention12
What is it like to live with a functional movement disorder? An interpretative phenomenological analysis of illness experiences from symptom onset to post‐diagnosis12
Interventions to increase personal protective behaviours to limit the spread of respiratory viruses: A rapid evidence review and meta‐analysis11
Social nudges for vaccination: How communicating herd behaviour influences vaccination intentions11
Comfort eating: An observational study of affect in the hours immediately before, and after, snacking11
Welcoming new life under lockdown: Exploring the experiences of first‐time mothers who gave birth during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
‘Just keep taking them, keep hoping they’ll work’: A qualitative study of adhering to medications for multimorbidity11
Usability and experience testing to refine an online intervention to prevent weight gain in new kidney transplant recipients10
Barriers to seasonal influenza vaccine uptake among health care workers in long‐term care facilities: A cross‐sectional analysis10
Understanding pregnant women’s adherence‐related beliefs about Nicotine Replacement Therapy for smoking cessation: A qualitative study10
Social group memberships, physical activity, and physical health following retirement: A six‐year follow‐up from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing10
Caregiving burden among informal caregivers of people with disability10
Baring all: The impact of the hospital gown on patient well‐being10
Depression in people with skin conditions: The effects of disgust and self‐compassion10
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 MS10
Stigma is associated with illness self‐concept in individuals with concealable chronic illnesses10
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)9
MAP: A mnemonic for mapping BCTs to three routes to behaviour change9
Identifying targets for interventions to support public use of face coverings8
Distinguishing factors that influence attendance and behaviour change in family‐based treatment of childhood obesity: A qualitative study8
Mind the gap: Habit and self‐determined motivation predict health behaviours in middle‐aged and older adults8
Experiences of completed and withdrawn unspecified kidney donor candidates in the United Kingdom: An inductive thematic analysis from the BOUnD study8
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 study8
‘Your face freezes and so does your life’: A qualitative exploration of adults’ psychosocial experiences of living with acquired facial palsy8
Social support facilitates physical activity by reducing pain8
‘Always take your doctor’s advice’: Does trust moderate the effect of information on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing expectations?7
Depression, anxiety, perceived stress, and their changes predicted medical adherence over 9 months among patients with coronary heart disease7
The experiences of palliative care professionals and their responses to work‐related stress: A qualitative study7
From ‘neurotic’ to ‘managing’ mother: The ‘medical career’ experienced by mothers of a child diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis7
The vital role of health psychology in the response to COVID‐197
A survey of eating styles in eight countries: Examining restrained, emotional, intuitive eating and their correlates7
Can sweet food‐specific inhibitory control training via a mobile application improve eating behavior in children with obesity?7
‘Trying to bring attention to your body when you’re not sure where it is’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of drivers and barriers to mindfulness for people with spinal cord injury7
Do specific types of sleep disturbances represent risk factors for poorer health‐related quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease? A longitudinal cohort study7
Social‐cognitive predictors of parental supervised toothbrushing: An application of the health action process approach6
A grounded theory of type 2 diabetes prevention and risk perception6
Chronic stress experience, sleep, and physical activity: Relations with change in negative affect and acute stress response to a naturalistic stressor6
‘What a dog will see and kill, a cat will see and ignore it’: An exploration of health‐related help‐seeking among older Ghanaian men residing in Ghana and the United Kingdom6
Psychological functioning and well‐being before and after bariatric surgery; what is the benefit of being self‐compassionate?6
Staying ‘Covid‐safe’: Proposals for embedding behaviours that protect against Covid‐19 transmission in the UK6
Treatment‐related decisional conflict in pre‐dialysis chronic kidney disease patients in Singapore: Prevalence and determinants6
What makes implementation intentions (in)effective for physical activity among older adults?5
“… 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 stu5
Accessing specialist support to stop smoking in pregnancy: A qualitative study exploring engagement with UK‐based stop smoking services5
Parenting an adolescent with complex regional pain syndrome: A dyadic qualitative investigation of resilience5
Physiotherapy informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic low back pain: A mixed‐methods treatment fidelity evaluation5
Health‐related guilt in chronic primary pain: A systematic review of evidence5
Experiences of cognitive training on primary breast cancer survivor's cognitive impairments at work: A longitudinal qualitative study5
The dynamic relationship between subjective social status and health: Evidence from a Chinese cohort study5
Development and testing of a digital health acceptability model to explain the intention to use a digital diabetes prevention programme5
Exploring how health behaviours are supported and changed in people with severe mental illness: A qualitative study of a cardiovascular risk reducing intervention in Primary Care in England5
How conceptualizing obesity as a disease affects beliefs about weight, and associated weight stigma and clinical decision‐making in health care5
Predictors of positive and negative post‐traumatic psychological outcomes in a sample of Iranian cancer survivors5
Expecting the best or fearing the worst: Discrepancies between self‐rated health and frailty in an ageing Irish population5
Is cognitive behaviour therapy an effective option for women who have troublesome menopausal symptoms?5
Do preparatory behaviours predict alcohol consumption among UK university students?5
Utility of temporal self‐regulation theory in health and social behaviours: A meta‐analysis5
A systematic review evaluating metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety and somatic distress4
Developing theory‐based asthma self‐management interventions for South Asians and African Americans: A systematic review4
Personal condition but social cure: Agentic ingroups elevate well‐being in chronically ill patients through perceptions of personal control4
‘That’s just how I am’: a qualitative interview study to identify factors influencing engagement with a digital intervention for tinnitus self‐management4
‘Maturing Out’ as dilemmatic: Transitions towards relatively light drinking practices among UK University students4
Enhanced life distress inventory: Development and validation in two African countries4
Optimism, pessimism, and health biomarkers in older couples4
The effects of social interactions on momentary stress and mood during COVID‐19 lockdowns4
‘Lonely in my head’: The experiences of loneliness in individuals with brain injury4
Identifying behaviour change techniques within randomized trials of interventions promoting deceased organ donation registration4
The value of core outcome sets in health psychology4
The Beliefs About Breastfeeding Questionnaire (BAB‐Q): A psychometric validation study4
Living with type 1 diabetes mellitus in emerging adulthood: A qualitative study4
Interpretations of partners’ responses to pain behaviours: Perspectives of patients and partners4
Outlining an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach to treatment non‐adherence4
Influencing medication taking behaviors using automated two‐way digital communication: A narrative synthesis systematic review informed by the Behavior Change Wheel4
‘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 France4
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Informal carers’ experiences of caring for someone with Multiple Sclerosis: A photovoice investigation4
Identifying the active ingredients of cardiac rehabilitation: A behaviour change technique and qualitative analysis4
A qualitative examination of affect and ideology within mass media interventions to increase HIV testing with gay men garnered from a systematic review3
Real beauty: Effects of a body‐positive video on body image and capacity to mitigate exposure to social media images3
Type D personality and blunted cardiovascular stress reactivity: Role of task engagement3
Optimizing patient expectations to improve therapeutic response to medical treatment: A randomized controlled trial of iron infusion therapy3
Using the COM‐B model to characterize the barriers and facilitators of pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake in men who have sex with men3
Debunking nutrition myths: An experimental test of the ‘truth sandwich’ text format3
Barriers and enablers to delivering opportunistic behaviour change interventions during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A qualitative study in healthcare professionals3
Preference for Intuition and Deliberation in Eating Decision‐making: Scale validation and associations with eating behaviour and health3
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the development and maintenance of gluten‐related distress and unhelpful eating and lifestyle patterns in coeliac disease3
Who is a credible source of preventive advice? An experimental vignette study of general public attitudes towards role expansion in health and social care3
Understanding self‐affirmation effects: The moderating role of self‐esteem3
The relationship between illness identity and the self‐management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease3
Understanding the barriers and facilitators to using self‐sampling packs for sexually transmitted infections and blood‐borne viruses: Thematic analyses for intervention optimization3
Using counterfactual thinking theory to change alcohol protective behavioural strategy use intentions3
Individual differences in meditation interventions: A meta‐analytic study3
Positive and negative aspects of mental health after unspecified living kidney donation: A cohort study3
Unpacking COVID‐19 and conspiracy theories in the UK black community3
Investigating the role of self‐control beliefs in predicting exercise behaviour: A longitudinal study3
“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 coeli3
Calling time on responsible drinking: A qualitative study of perceptions of information on alcohol product labels3
Linking measures to mechanisms of action: An expert opinion study3
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