Health Psychology Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Health Psychology Review 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Acceptance and commitment therapy processes and their association with distress in cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis230
On social health: history, conceptualization, and population patterning57
Affective touch and regulation of stress responses55
The concept of treatment beliefs in children and adolescents with chronic health conditions: a scoping review51
Why do people sit? A framework for targeted behavior change49
Experiences of women who self-report Breast Implant Illness (BII): a qualitative evidence synthesis43
Coping style and mental health amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a culture-moderated meta-analysis of 44 nations41
Is thematic analysis used well in health psychology? A critical review of published research, with recommendations for quality practice and reporting40
Insights into the complexities of symptom management for hemodialysis patients: a systematic review of qualitative studies36
A scoping review of research on the determinants of adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic35
Post-traumatic stress symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder, and post-traumatic growth among cancer survivors: a systematic scoping review of interventions32
Diagnostic uncertainty in patients, parents, and physicians: a compensatory control theory perspective28
Identifying the active ingredients of training interventions for healthcare professionals to promote and support increased levels of physical activity in adults with heart failure: a systematic review27
Psychosocial determinants of alternative protein choices: a meta-review25
Barriers and enablers to maintaining self-management behaviours after attending a self-management support intervention for type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis25
Promoting physical activity during retirement age with psychological components: multilevel meta-analysis24
Old ideas, new directions: re-examining the predictive utility of the hemodynamic profile of the stress response in healthy populations23
Habit and habitual behaviour23
Attractor landscapes: a unifying conceptual model for understanding behaviour change across scales of observation22
Why do they care? A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis of personal and relational motivations for providing informal care21
A scoping review of placebo and nocebo responses and effects: insights for clinical trials and practice21
Psychological, social and behavioural factors associated with disease/illness activity and adjustment to Lupus: a systematic review and meta-analysis20
Mindfulness-based psychosocial interventions and psychological wellbeing in cancer survivorship: a meta-analysis19
Gay community involvement and the sexual health behaviours of sexual minority men: a systematic review and directions for future research19
How and why could smiling influence physical health? A conceptual review17
A machine-learning assisted review of the use of habit formation in medication adherence interventions for long-term conditions16
Inhibitory control training to reduce appetitive behaviour: a meta-analytic investigation of effectiveness, potential moderators, and underlying mechanisms of change16
Self-help interventions for persistent physical symptoms: a systematic review of behaviour change components and their potential effects15
Development of the social dimensions of health behaviour framework14
Evaluating group psychological interventions for mental health in women with infertility undertaking fertility treatment: A systematic review and meta-Analysis14
The relationship between expectancy, anxiety, and the nocebo effect: a systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for future research13
A meta-analysis of loneliness and use of primary health care12
White Paper: Open Digital Health – accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion and treatment12
Experiences of psychological interventions in neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review and thematic synthesis12
Introduction to the special issue ‘New directions in the biology of stress’11
Compendium of dyadic intervention techniques (DITs) to change health behaviours: a systematic review10
Differences in stress system (re-)activity between single and dual- or multitasking in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis9
The iterative development and refinement of health psychology theories through formal, dynamical systems modelling: a scoping review and initial expert-derived ‘best practice’ recommendations9
Climate hazards and psychological health among coastal communities in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence9
Insulin restriction or omission in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: a meta-synthesis of individuals’ experiences of diabulimia8
Behaviour change techniques and intervention characteristics in digital cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials8
Factors influencing health behaviour change during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-synthesis8
Understanding health behaviours in context: A systematic review and meta-analysis of ecological momentary assessment studies of five key health behaviours7
A biobehavioural and social-structural model of inflammation and executive function in pediatric chronic health conditions7
Fear of progression in chronic illnesses other than cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of a transdiagnostic construct7
Emotion suppression and acute physiological responses to stress in healthy populations: a quantitative review of experimental and correlational investigations6
Protection motivation theory and health behaviour: conceptual review, discussion of limitations, and recommendations for best practice and future research6
Physical activity interventions for the promotion of mental health outcomes in at-risk children and adolescents: a systematic review6
Analysis of dynamic psychological processes to understand and promote physical activity behaviour using intensive longitudinal methods: a primer6
Contextualising flexible nonlinear periodization as a person-adaptive behavioral model for exercise maintenance6
Good mental health in people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review6
Identifying the psychosocial barriers and facilitators associated with the uptake of genetic services for hereditary cancer syndromes: a systematic review of qualitative studies5
Informing behaviour change intervention design using systematic review with Bayesian meta-analysis: physical activity in heart failure5
Cultural and societal motivations for being informal caregivers: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis5
Effects of digital health interventions on the psychological outcomes of perinatal women: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses5
Psychosocial and behavioural predictors of immune response to influenza vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
Global prevalence of smoking among individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder and symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
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