OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Work in Public Health is 1. 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
Investigation of COVID-19 Fear, Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Turkish Society	79
The effect of anxiety levels of elderly people in quarantine on depression during covid-19 pandemic	35
Risk and Protective Factors of Loneliness among Older Adults: The Significance of Social Isolation and Quality and Type of Contact	24
Risk Factors and Effects of the Morbus: COVID-19 through the Biopsychosocial Model and Ecological Systems Approach to Social Work Practice	19
Inclusive education in the European Union: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of education policy for autism	19
Role of the Health System in Combating Covid-19: Cross-Section Analysis and Artificial Neural Network Simulation for 124 Country Cases	16
Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Sleep Quality and Its Dimensions among Older Adults in City of Qom, Iran	16
Impacts of COVID-19 on Refugee Service Provision and Community Support: A Rapid Assessment during the Pandemic	15
This Is America: Systemic Racism and Health Inequities Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Investigation of the Perceived Coronavirus Threat, E-Health Literacy, and Psychological Well-Being in Turkey	14
Substance Use, Family Functionality, and Mental Health among College Students in Spain	14
An Integrated Approach to COVID-19 Preventive Behaviour Intentions: Protection Motivation Theory, Information Acquisition, and Trust	13
Social Determinants of Opioid Use among Patients in Rural Primary Care Settings	13
Anxiety among the Vietnamese Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Social Work Practice	13
Unmet Community Service Needs and Life Satisfaction Among Chinese Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study	11
COVID-19’s Social Ecological Impacts on Health and Human Services Worker Well-being	11
On the Basis of Gender: A Medical-Legal Review of Barriers to Healthcare for Transgender and Gender-Expansive Patients	9
As we age: listening to the voice of LGBTQ older adults	9
Transgender Rights & the Urgent Need for Social Work Advocacy	8
Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ Smartphone Addiction in South Korea	8
Awareness about Gynecologic Cancers and Related Factors among Healthy Women: A Cross-Sectional Study	8
New media platform’s understanding of Chinese social workers’ anti-epidemic actions: an analysis of network public opinion based on COVID-19	8
Risk Perception and Behavioral Response to COVID-19: A Survey of University Students and Staff in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region	8
Social Work’s Response during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review—Balancing Telemedicine with Social Work Self-Care during A Pandemic	8
COVID-19 in Homelessness: A Worldwide Scoping Review on Vulnerabilities, Risks, and Risk Management	7

Identifying Lockdown Relaxation Strategies and Policy Implications to Fight against COVID-19: Medical Experts Perspective from Pakistan	7
Self-Management of Chronic Diseases: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study	7
Impacts of Economic Freedom, Health, and Social Expenditures on Well-Being Measured by the Better Life Index in OECD Countries	7
African Americans’ and Black Caribbeans’ Religious Coping for Psychiatric Disorders	7
Detecting the Relationship between the Stress Levels and Perceived Burnout in Law-enforcement Officers during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-sectional Study	7
Ending the HIV Epidemic: One Southern Community Speaks	6
The Quality of Life, Depression Levels and Coping Styles of Patients on Kidney Transplant Waiting List	6
Association between Fear of COVID-19 with Self-care Behaviors in Elderly: A Cross- Sectional Study	6
Does Cyberchondria Mediate the Effect of COVID-19 Fear on the Stress?	6
Community Asset Mapping in Public Health: A Review of Applications and Approaches	6
Examining the Family Support Role of Older Hispanics, African Americans, and Non-Hispanic Whites and Their Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors	6
Relationships Between Perceived Neighborhood Disorder and Depressive Symptomatology: The Stress Buffering Effects of Social Support Among Older Adults	6
Domestic Violence: Rehabilitation Programme for the Victim and Violent / Predator	5
Subtypes of Bullying and Types of Substance Use among Urban African American Adolescents: Who Is Likely to Use What?	5
“Treat Me like Your Family”: Positive Factors that Influence Patient-Provider Relationships for Native American Women	5
Correlates of Incarceration of Fathers, Socioeconomic Influences, and Mental Illness	5
Challenges and Enhancement of Medical Social Workers in Public Health Facilities in Nigeria	5
At the Intersection of Homeless Encampments and Heroin Addiction: Service Use Barriers, Facilitators, and Recommendations from the City of Philadelphia’s Encampment Resolution Pilot	5
Developing HIV prevention online using a habermasian ‘lifeworld’ approach with young men who have sex with men from Bali	5
An Investigation of the Relationship between Health Literacy Levels of Pregnant Women and Their Perceptions of Traumatic Childbirth	5
Sleep Health Education to Promote Public Health: Attitudes and Desired Learning Goals among Social Work Students	4
Is Vaccine Hesitancy Affected by Distrust in the Healthcare System? A Study in Turkish Population	4
“Our Unified Voice to Implement Change and Advance the View of Young Carers and Young Adult Carers.” An Appreciative Evaluation of the Impact of a National Young Carer Health Champions Programm	4
Bridging the Gap: Investigating the Role of Social Workers in Supporting Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients in Nigeria	4
Effects of Health Beliefs on Flu Vaccination and Physical Health among Under/Graduate Students in the U.S.: Racial Differences (Whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians)	4
Issues behind the Utilization of Community Mental Health Services by Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong	4
The effect of experiencing discrimination on the life satisfaction of people with disabilities in South Korea: The mediating role of disability acceptance	4
Exploring the Efficacy of Social Work Interventions in Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review	4
Lived Experiences of Adult Burn Survivors with Post-Burn Contractures	4
The DNA of Social Work as a Partner in Primary Health Care	4
COVID-19 Prevention Measures Targeting Homeless People in Japan: A Cross-sectional Study	4
Investigating Self-Care Agency and Well-Being of Elderly People	4
Social Network Typology and Serious Psychological Distress: Findings from the National Survey of American Life	4
Experiences of LGBTQ Adults Who Have Accessed Emergency Shelters in a Large Urban City in Canada	4
Social Work Services at Dakto District Health Center, Kon Tum Province, Vietnam: Challenges and Policy Recommendations	4
Racial Disparities in Healthcare: How COVID-19 Ravaged One of the Wealthiest African American Counties in the United States	4
What Do EHRs Tell Us about How We Deploy Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health	3
Factors of Social Public Crisis Caused by Sudden Major Epidemic–The Enlightenment of “SARS” on Prevention and Control of COVID-19	3
The relationship between Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak related perceptions and health anxiety	3
Apparently We Cannot Live, We are like Infectious Zombies: A Qualitative Research on Personal and Familial Experiences of Health Workers in the Filiation Teams in Turkey during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
The Relationship between Adverse Family Experiences during Childhood and Self-rated Health Outcome in Adulthood	3
The Use of Telehealth in Depression Treatment during the Crisis Caused by COVID-19	3
The Insomnia and Loneliness of Elderly Individuals and Affecting Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey	3
Do health infrastructure and services, aging, and environmental quality influence public health expenditures? Empirical evidence from Pakistan	3
African American Ethnicity, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Arthritis Independently Predict Co-occurring Depression and Obesity among Community-dwelling Older Adult Alabamians	3
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) regarding the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Post-lockdown in Trinidad and Tobago	3
Social Work Responses and Household-level Determinants of Coronavirus Preparedness in Rural Ethiopia	3
Health seeking behaviors of women living with obstetric fistula in Zimbabwe: A qualitative cross sectional study	3
Families’ Health Behavior: Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Family Health Climate Scale	3
Beyond Groceries: An Analysis of Referral Needs to Address Underlying Causes of Child Hunger among Households Accessing Food Pantries	3

Forecasting future HIV infection cases: evidence from Indonesia	3
Health and Social Constraints for Elderly Chinese Women Who Lose Their Only Child and Spouse: A Perspective of Resilience	3
Antisocial Behavior and Attitudes Towards Antisocial Behavior after a Five-Year Municipal Youth and Family Master Plan in Pomona, California, USA	3
The Effect of Empowerment Interventions Applied to Geriatric Patients Receiving Physical Therapy on Their Depression and Self-Efficacy Levels	3
Physical Violence against Children by Parents among Primary School Students from a Rural Area in Shandong Province, China	3
Planning and Implementing the Protocol for Psychosocial Interventions by Social Workers in Iranian Healthcare Centers against COVID-19	3
It Is a Hoax: Attitude of South-eastern Nigerian Toward COVID-19 and Vaccine: The Need for Social Workers	3
The Effectiveness of Health Belief Model Initiative in Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors among Women Health Volunteers	2
Preventive Measures and Active Response against COVID-19 Taken by All Four Provinces, Two Independent Territories, and the Federal State of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Islamabad	2
Obstetric Fistula: Connecting the Interface between Social Work and Social Support Services for the Management and Reintegration of Victims in Ebonyi State, Nigeria	2
The Association between Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Socioeconomic Factors in the Households of Pakistan Using Quantile Regression Model	2
An Ecological Theory Application and Expansion to the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on African Americans and Contributors to Vaccine Hesitancy	2
Social Workers’ Knowledge and Ability in Crisis Intervention in Kuwait– A Case of COVID-19	2
A Qualitative Study on the Knowledge and Opinions of Syrian Women regarding Family Planning	2
House Level Latent Classes as Predictors of Recovery and Evictions	2
Epidemiology of Sleep Disorders Among Adolescents in Kerman, Iran, in 2019	2
Epidemiology of Sleep Disturbances Among Primary School Students in Kerman, Iran, in 2019	2
The Comparison of China and Iran Response to COVD-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learn for Health Policy	2
Patient-provider communication quality as a predictor of medical mistrust among young Black women	2
Associations between Psychological Resilience and Social Support with Posttraumatic Growth in Breast Cancer Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study	2
“Unprecedented Times:” Experiences of Social Work and Public Health Professionals during Times of Public Crises	2
Assessment of Have Problems and Care Burdens of Mothers with Handicapped Children in COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Health beliefs as a predictor of screening behaviors among college students	2
Unincorporated Health: Understanding Residents’ Perspectives on Factors Impacting Their Health and Emergent Place-Based Solutions	2
The Development and Validation of Elder Self-Neglect Scale (ESNS) in Iranian Community-dwelling Older Population	2
Ethnic and Neighborhood Differences in Poverty and Disability among Older Asian Americans in New York City	2
Advocates Make a Difference in Duration of Homelessness and Quality of Life	2
Effects of Sports Public Goods on the Health of the Elderly: Empirical Evidence from China	2
“Any Reason is Valid:” How an Unexpected Abortion Disclosure is Received by an Online Community	2
Compassion Fatigue in Informal Caregivers of Children with Cancer; a Section from Turkey	2
The Compounded Burden of Poverty on Mental Health for People with Disabilities	2
Emotional Stress Experience of Care Professionals for Older Adults with Dementia: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-synthesis	1
Enhancing Provider Delivery of Tobacco Treatment Within the Inpatient Psychiatric Setting	1
ACE-Informed Responses in Central Texas: Findings from a Needs Assessment	1
Effective Disaster Measures for Cambodia: Implications from Focus Group Interview with Potential Young Professionals in Cambodia	1
The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Adults Living in Turkey and Ways of Coping	1
Evaluation of the Attitudes of Midwifery Students Towards Gender Roles	1
What Ethical Dilemmas Do Social Workers Face in the Healthcare Area in Spain?	1
Health Beliefs in Association with Behaviors in Compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Guidelines: A Cross-sectional Study	1
A Holistic Evaluation of a Community Health Improvement Plan	1
Implementing a School-Based, Trauma-Informed Resilience Curriculum for Parents	1
Cumulative Risk for Children’s Behavior Problems and Child Abuse Potential among Mothers Receiving Substance Use Treatment: The Unique Role of Parenting Stress	1
Analysis of Mental Health Workforce: Implications for Social Work Practice and Profession	1
The Role of Social Work in Confronting the Farmer Suicide Crisis: Best Practice Recommendations and a Call to Action	1
Social Work and the Next Frontier of Racial Justice: Using COVID-19 as a Vehicle for Healing	1
Relation between Coping with Pain & Spiritual Wellbeing in Chronic Pain Living Individuals	1
The Role of Clinical Social Worker in Addressing the Social Consequences of Coronavirus (Covid-19): A Field Study	1
The Mass Media Used by University Students for Becoming Informed about Disaster News and the Effects of Disaster News on Quaternary Victimization: The Example of Burdur Province in Turkey	1
Voices of Those Who Bear the Brunt – Experiences of Programme Personnel Concerning Private Sector Tuberculosis Notifications in Bengaluru City, India	1
Perceived Risk of COVID-19 and Anxiety in Syrian Refugees in Turkey	1
Depression, Anxiety, and Stress During COVID-19 Pandemic Among Females Who Live in Kuwait	1
The Relationship between Self‐Efficacy of Older Patients and Caregiver Burden in Turkey	1
Examining Interprofessional Collaboration across case managers, peer educators, and counselors in New York City	1
The Views of People Who Experienced the Reduction of the Concerns in the COVID-19 Quarantine Process by Making Physical Activity at Home	1
Sociocultural Factors as Predictor to Exclusive Breastfeeding (EBF) Practice among Nursing Mothers in some Communities in Eastern, Nigeria	1
Predictors of Self-Reported Compliance with COVID-19 Preventive Guidelines: A Quantile Regression Model	1
The Role of Mood in the Self-Care Activities of Primary Care Patients with Type 2 Diabetes	1
Determination of COVID-19 Phobia Level in Health Care Workers	1
What did Chinese Social Workers Do at the Worst Moment? ——A Research Based on Social Workers’ Participation in the Fight against COVID-19 at Guangzhou	1
Health Access of Women in Provincial Correctional Institutions	1
People with Disabilities’ Access to Medical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1