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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The concept of treatment beliefs in children and adolescents with chronic health conditions: a scoping review221
Why do people sit? A framework for targeted behavior change128
Acceptance and commitment therapy processes and their association with distress in cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis56
Coping style and mental health amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a culture-moderated meta-analysis of 44 nations49
Affective touch and regulation of stress responses49
On social health: history, conceptualization, and population patterning46
Is thematic analysis used well in health psychology? A critical review of published research, with recommendations for quality practice and reporting39
A scoping review of research on the determinants of adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic39
Post-traumatic stress symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder, and post-traumatic growth among cancer survivors: a systematic scoping review of interventions37
Diagnostic uncertainty in patients, parents, and physicians: a compensatory control theory perspective36
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 synthesis34
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 review31
Habit and habitual behaviour25
Psychosocial determinants of alternative protein choices: a meta-review25
Old ideas, new directions: re-examining the predictive utility of the hemodynamic profile of the stress response in healthy populations24
Promoting physical activity during retirement age with psychological components: multilevel meta-analysis24
Stress and eating behaviours in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis23
Attractor landscapes: a unifying conceptual model for understanding behaviour change across scales of observation22
A scoping review of placebo and nocebo responses and effects: insights for clinical trials and practice21
Gay community involvement and the sexual health behaviours of sexual minority men: a systematic review and directions for future research20
Why do they care? A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis of personal and relational motivations for providing informal care20
Psychological, social and behavioural factors associated with disease/illness activity and adjustment to Lupus: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Mindfulness-based psychosocial interventions and psychological wellbeing in cancer survivorship: a meta-analysis19
Inhibitory control training to reduce appetitive behaviour: a meta-analytic investigation of effectiveness, potential moderators, and underlying mechanisms of change19
The relationship between expectancy, anxiety, and the nocebo effect: a systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for future research16
Self-help interventions for persistent physical symptoms: a systematic review of behaviour change components and their potential effects16
How and why could smiling influence physical health? A conceptual review16
A machine-learning assisted review of the use of habit formation in medication adherence interventions for long-term conditions16
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-Analysis13
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
Differences in stress system (re-)activity between single and dual- or multitasking in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis10
Compendium of dyadic intervention techniques (DITs) to change health behaviours: a systematic review10
Climate hazards and psychological health among coastal communities in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence10
Behaviour change techniques and intervention characteristics in digital cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials9
Factors influencing health behaviour change during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-synthesis9
Insulin restriction or omission in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: a meta-synthesis of individuals’ experiences of diabulimia9
The iterative development and refinement of health psychology theories through formal, dynamical systems modelling: a scoping review and initial expert-derived ‘best practice’ recommendations9
Fear of progression in chronic illnesses other than cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of a transdiagnostic construct8
Understanding health behaviours in context: A systematic review and meta-analysis of ecological momentary assessment studies of five key health behaviours8
Good mental health in people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review7
A biobehavioural and social-structural model of inflammation and executive function in pediatric chronic health conditions7
Analysis of dynamic psychological processes to understand and promote physical activity behaviour using intensive longitudinal methods: a primer7
Contextualising flexible nonlinear periodization as a person-adaptive behavioral model for exercise maintenance6
Protection motivation theory and health behaviour: conceptual review, discussion of limitations, and recommendations for best practice and future research6
Emotion suppression and acute physiological responses to stress in healthy populations: a quantitative review of experimental and correlational investigations6
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
Psychosocial and behavioural predictors of immune response to influenza vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
Physical activity interventions for the promotion of mental health outcomes in at-risk children and adolescents: a systematic review5
Effects of digital health interventions on the psychological outcomes of perinatal women: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses5
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