Preventive health behavior: A review of research and issues.

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

1975 • 23,866 citations

Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation.

1978 • 6,706 citations

Attitude-behavior relations: A theoretical analysis and review of empirical research.

1977 • 6,704 citations

An Analysis of Coping in a Middle-Aged Community Sample

1980 • 6,179 citations

Why People Use Health Services

2005 • 2,346 citations

A questionnaire for the assessment of leisure time physical activities

1978 • 1,818 citations

Locus of control: Current trends in theory and research

1976 • 1,784 citations

On the Elicitation of Preferences for Alternative Therapies

1982 • 1,664 citations

Compliance in Health Care

1979 • 1,556 citations

Communication Yearbook 3

1981 • 1,318 citations

Findings and Theory in the Study of Fear Communications

1970 • 1,314 citations

Relationship of physical health status and health practices

1972 • 1,119 citations

Healthy people : the Surgeon General's report on health promotion and disease prevention

1979 • 1,014 citations

Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems

1982 • 917 citations

The smoking problem: A review of the research and theory in behavioral risk modification.

1980 • 763 citations

Advances in the epidemiology of injuries as a basis for public policy.

1980 • 730 citations

Persistence of health habits and their relationship to mortality

1980 • 492 citations

Fallacy of the Five-Year Survival in Lung Cancer

1978 • 477 citations

Health-Protective Behavior: An Exploratory Study

1979 • 431 citations

Health Behavior, Illness Behavior, and Sick-Role Behavior

1966 • 427 citations

Compliance/adherence in health-related exercise.

1982 • 423 citations

Social Networks, Health Beliefs, and Preventive Health Behavior

1977 • 369 citations

Behavioral medicine : changing health lifestyles

1980 • 355 citations

Fear appeals and attitude change: Effects of a threat's noxiousness, probability of occurrence, and the efficacy of coping responses.

1976 • 350 citations

Sex, illness, and medical care

1977 • 321 citations

Sociomedical Variations Among Ethnic Groups

1964 • 311 citations

Fifteen years of fear arousal: Research on threat appeals: 1953-1968.

1969 • 289 citations

Reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease

1977 • 267 citations

A National Study of Health Beliefs

1966 • 238 citations

A controlled study of the effect of television messages on safety belt use.

1974 • 232 citations

The effects of the anti-smoking campaign on cigarette consumption.

1977 • 230 citations

The Need for an Ethnomedical Science

1975 • 218 citations

Expired air carbon monoxide and serum thiocyanate as objective measures of cigarette exposure.

1977 • 217 citations

Motivational and Behavioral Effects of Modifying Health Beliefs

1970 • 215 citations

Saliva thiocyanate: a chemical indicator of cigarette smoking in adolescents.

1981 • 183 citations

A Conceptualization of Threat Communications and Protective Health Behavior

1981 • 175 citations

Some Principles of Mass Persuasion

1949 • 164 citations

Psychosocial Determinants of Immunization Behavior in a Swine Influenza Campaign

1979 • 160 citations

Why People Fail to Seek Poliomyelitis Vaccination

1959 • 153 citations

Why People Seek Dental Care: A Test of a Conceptual Formulation

1963 • 152 citations

Mass Media Campaigns: The Odds Against Finding Behavior Change

1981 • 151 citations

Some influences on public participation in a genetic screening program

1975 • 145 citations

Refinements in the Measurement of Health-Specific Locus-of-Control Beliefs

1981 • 138 citations

Skills training in a cardiovascular health education campaign.

1980 • 133 citations

Possible Increases in the Underreporting of Cigarette Consumption

1978 • 133 citations

Limitations of behavioral treatment of obesity: Review and analysis

1981 • 132 citations

Impact of efforts to increase participation in repetitive screenings for early breast cancer detection.

1972 • 120 citations

Social factors associated with breast self-examination among high risk women.

1981 • 112 citations

Results of a two-year health education campaign on dietary behavior. The Stanford Three Community Study.

1976 • 110 citations

Interrelationships among preventive health behaviors: a test of competing hypotheses.

1979 • 99 citations

Theoretical and methodological considerations in the prediction of family planning intentions and behavior.

1973 • 98 citations

Interrelationship of Preventive Actions in Health and Other Areas

1972 • 94 citations

Conceptual and Empirical Dimensions of Health Behavior

1972 • 89 citations

An assessment of health hazard/health risk appraisal.

1982 • 89 citations

Research Evidence on Mass Mediated Health Communication Campaigns

1979 • 88 citations

The Effect of Income on Use of Preventive Care: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations

1979 • 87 citations

The stability of health and illness behavior: results from a 16-year follow-up.

1979 • 86 citations

The Social Power of Health‐Care Practitioners as Agents of Change

1979 • 80 citations

Children's Health Beliefs and Acceptance of a Dental Preventive Activity

1980 • 76 citations

Issues in Patient Adherence to Health Care Regimens

1975 • 75 citations

A Theoretical Analysis of Selected Factors Important to Health Education Strategies

1975 • 71 citations

A Test of Interventions to Increase Adherence to Hypertensive Medical Regimens

1981 • 68 citations

A Decade of Health Services.

1968 • 66 citations

Behavioral Self-Management

1983 • 64 citations

Developing and testing a decision aid for birth planning decisions

1976 • 63 citations

Preventive Actions in Dental Disease, Tuberculosis, and Cancer

1967 • 63 citations

The dissemination of health information

1971 • 54 citations

Breast self-examinations: Who does them and why

1979 • 53 citations

The Health Belief Model and Behavior Related to Chronic Illness

1974 • 53 citations

The influence of interviewer and respondent psychological and behavioral variables on the reporting in household interviews.

1968 • 51 citations

Passive and active measures for controlling disease and injury: The role of health psychologists.

1982 • 44 citations

Behavioral Science Applied to Cardiovascular Health: Progress and Research Needs in the Modification of Risk-Taking Habits in Adult Populations

1976 • 44 citations

Cardiovascular risk modification by community-based programs for life-style change: Comments on the Stanford study.

1980 • 41 citations

What kinds of people do not use seat belts?

1977 • 40 citations

“Internal Control” and the Taking of Influenza Shots

1971 • 40 citations

Successes of prevention.

1978 • 39 citations

Effects of threatening communications and mothers' health beliefs on weight change in obese children

1978 • 39 citations

Experiments in Interviewing Techniques

1980 • 38 citations

Dental Patients' Attitudes and Behavior concerning Prevention: National Survey

1968 • 36 citations

Psychosocial Determinants of Health Care Intentions: Test of the Triandis and Fishbein Models

1979 • 28 citations

Cardiovascular risk reduction in a community setting: Some comments.

1980 • 28 citations

Behavior therapy and health care: principles and applications

1975 • 23 citations

A social-psychological perspective on successful community control of high blood pressure: A review

1978 • 22 citations

Smoking: A Panel Study of Beliefs and Behavior following the PHS Report

1966 • 21 citations

A Multivariate Analysis of the Likelihood and Volume of Preventive Visit Demand in a Prepaid Group Practice

1978 • 18 citations

“Instrumental coping” and “Affective defense”: An additional perspective in health promoting behavior

1978 • 14 citations

Sex and gender in health and medicine

1978 • 13 citations

Perspectives on future health care.

1983 • 13 citations

Public Knowledge, Opinion and Action Concerning Three Public Health Issues: Radioactive Fallout, Insect and Plant Sprays and Fatty Foods

1966 • 13 citations

Non-smokers, smokers, ex-smokers. Three separate problems for health education.

1979 • 7 citations