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
Affective touch and regulation of stress responses49
Coping style and mental health amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a culture-moderated meta-analysis of 44 nations49
On social health: history, conceptualization, and population patterning46
A scoping review of research on the determinants of adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic39
Is thematic analysis used well in health psychology? A critical review of published research, with recommendations for quality practice and reporting39
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
Psychosocial determinants of alternative protein choices: a meta-review25
Habit and habitual behaviour25
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
Why do they care? A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis of personal and relational motivations for providing informal care20
Gay community involvement and the sexual health behaviours of sexual minority men: a systematic review and directions for future research20
Inhibitory control training to reduce appetitive behaviour: a meta-analytic investigation of effectiveness, potential moderators, and underlying mechanisms of change19
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
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
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
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
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
A meta-analysis of loneliness and use of primary health care12
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
Climate hazards and psychological health among coastal communities in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence10
Differences in stress system (re-)activity between single and dual- or multitasking in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis10
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
Behaviour change techniques and intervention characteristics in digital cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials9
Understanding health behaviours in context: A systematic review and meta-analysis of ecological momentary assessment studies of five key health behaviours8
Fear of progression in chronic illnesses other than cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of a transdiagnostic construct8
Analysis of dynamic psychological processes to understand and promote physical activity behaviour using intensive longitudinal methods: a primer7
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
Emotion suppression and acute physiological responses to stress in healthy populations: a quantitative review of experimental and correlational investigations6
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
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
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
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