About this Journal
Welcome to the future home of Health Behavior Research. The journal hasn’t moved quite yet though. Please visit the Journal’s Home Page for current content and information on how to submit to the journal.
Health Behavior Research (HBR) is the official journal of the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB). Published four-times per year, HBR is a peer-reviewed open-access scholarly journal that publishes original research articles, current issues papers, commentaries, and abstracts from the annual meeting of the Academy.
Health Behavior Research is dedicated to the translation of research to advance policy, program planning, and/or practice relevant to behavior change. This aim is accomplished by publishing scholarly works from basic and applied scientists that rigorously apply, test, and inform efforts to revise, refine, or reject theoretical principles. More specifically, preference will be given to works that:
- Test theoretical principles across a diverse array of settings and populations to enable investigators to better specify the scope of a theory;
- Further develop processes that shape primary constructs identified in health behavior theories to inform guidelines for strategies to target constructs in policy, planning, and practice;
- Address the causal processes invoked by mediators and moderators that inform theory refinement;
- Provide empirical evidence that informs researchers about the potential factors that lack predictive and explanatory health behaviors so as to refine and reduce the number of constructs within existing theories that predict and explain health behavior;
- Provide rationale for theory refinement based on application and rigorous testing.
- Address new and emerging concepts and theory used in health behavior research, conceptual frameworks, methods, and analyses.
For more information about AAHB, and becoming a member, please visit the academy’s website at www.aahb.org.
At this time Health Behavior Research is not accepting new manuscripts. We plan to start accepting manuscripts again in the upcoming months. We appreciate your patience.
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Research Article
The associations of bedtime, sleep duration, inflammation, and insulin resistance among adults in the United States: Cross-sectional NHANES 2021-2023
- Shuo Feng
- Qiyue Zhang
- Ping Ma
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Chronic Pain and Pain Management Experiences among Younger and Older Adults
- Shinduk Lee
- Matthew L Smith
- Deborah V Dahlke
- Nicole Pardo
- Marcia G. Ory
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Factors Associated with Trust in Social Media Information: An Analysis of Psychosocial and Demographic Correlates
- Sunghyun Chung
- Adam E Barry
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“You’re Left to Fend for Yourself”: Navigating Maternity Care, Employment Barriers, and Postpartum Well-being in Florence, Italy
- Sophie E Shank
- Honor Fuchs
- Nicole A Stepp
- Andrea L DeMaria
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Impact of a Pharmacist-Based Community Intervention to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Diabetes and Hypertension
- Christopher Robbins
- Erin Miller
- Alex Middendorf
- Deidra Van Gilder
- Sharrel Pinto
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Exploring the Issue of Social Isolation Among Older Adults in Northeast Tennessee: A Brief Report
- Aimee Rowe
- Erin Mauck
- Kayla B Dodson
- Priscilla Rogers
- Matthew L Smith
- Jodi Southerland
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Oregon’s Psilocybin Services: A summary and public health commentary
- Cassidy LoParco
- Carlton Bone
- Annalynn M Galvin
- Matthew E Rossheim
- Carla Berg
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Community Violence, Peer Victimization, and Protective Weapon Purchase in Nicaraguan Adolescents: The Role of Attitudes Toward Weapons
- Yu Lu
- Hillary McGuire
- Shristi Bhochhibhoya
- YoungJu Shin
- Jonathan Pettigrew
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Health Behaviors and Wellbeing of University Students During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review
- Joshua S Yudkin
- Mckenna Brownell
- Matthew Lee Smith
- Rebecca Jungbauer
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Scroll, Motivate, Move? The Role of Fitspiration Content on Visual Social Media on Exercise Motivation and Behavior
- Isa Vos
- Thomas N. Friemel
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Sociocultural Correlates of Contraceptive Method Use Among Partnered U.S. Women: Findings from NCHAT
- Sarah A Alkhatib
- Rohit Balasundaram
- Kaeli Johnson
- Stacey B Griner
- Malinee Neelamegam
- Erika L. Thompson
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Tobacco Imagery on Video-centric User-Generated Content Platforms: Exposure Associated with Greater Intentions to Smoke and Use E-Cigarettes
- Jessica M. Rath
- Brenda Dimaya
- Elexis C Kierstead
- Michael A. Tynan
- Maeh Al-Shawaf
- Nathan A. Silver
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Understanding Demographic & Behavioural Characteristics of Seropositive Clients Tested at ICTC: A Hospital Based Study in Central India
- Prabha Desikan
- Aseem Rangnekar
- Nikita Panwalkar
- Manoj Pateriya
- Virendra Singh Rajput
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Comfort and Confidence of Nurses Providing Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations with TeleSANE Guidance
- Wah Wah Myint
- Heather R Clark
- Kim A Zemanek
- Kayce Ward
- Stacey A Mitchell
- Nancy R Downing
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Identifying the Unique Role of Anxiety Sensitivity Sub-facets in Food Cravings
- Brooke Y Redmond
- Angelica Duran
- Andrea Rodriguez
- Duckhyum Jo
- Michael J. Zvolensky
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From Pain to Suffering: The Narrative Ethnography of Pain Experience Among Kurdish People with Chronic Skeletal Pain in Iran
- Loghman Shamsi
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Editorial
The American Academy of Health Behavior 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting: “Centering Community in Health Behavior Research and Practice”
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Research Brief
Kratom brands in vape shops across the US
- Cassidy R LoParco
- Kayla K Tillett
- Carla Berg
- Matthew E Rossheim
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Weight concern as a predictor of smoking cessation in smokers participating in a community-based cessation program
- Cheri Kilmurray
- Mark Vander Weg
- Nancy Wilson
- Xichen Mou
- Barbara McClanahan
- Michelle B. Stockton
- Kenneth D Ward
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The Relationship between Gender Identity, Transphobia, and Provider Trust among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals in Rural Appalachia
- Mohammed Sheikh Eldin Jibriel
- Rachel W. Faller
- Amanda E. Tanner
- Tamar Goldenberg
- Jeanette M. Stafford
- Ana D. Sucaldito
- Lilli Mann-Jackson
- Jorge Alonzo
- Manuel Garcia
- John W. Chaffin
- Lucero Refugio Aviles
- David M Kline
- Laurie P. Russell
- Tucker McGuire
- Peggy H Weil
- Antonio Del Toro
- Aimee M Wilkin
- Scott D Rhodes
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Burnout, Drinking Motives, and Alcohol Consumption among University Faculty and Staff
- Charlie Chen
- Jordin Nowak
- Rose Marie Ward
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From Fit to At-Risk: Latent Profiles of Health and Behavior Among First-Year Mexican American College Students
- Soyoung Kwon
- Shannon Shen
- Jieming Chen
- Soojin Yoo
- Boram Lim
- Sukho Lee
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Assessing Firearm Ownership and Storage Among Recent Dental Care Users in the United States
- Alexander Testa
- Rahma Mungia
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