Public Health: Academic Discipline — Prolific Citations Library

Explore 8 peer-reviewed papers in Public Health (2020–2024). Academic research using Prolific for high-quality human data collection.

This page lists 8 peer-reviewed papers in the discipline of Public Health in the Prolific Citations Library, a curated collection of research powered by high-quality human data from Prolific.

Papers (8 of 8)

The impact of the cost of living crisis and food insecurity on food purchasing behaviours and food preparation practices in people living with obesity

Authors: RA Stone, A Brown, F Douglas, M Green, E Hunter, M Lonnie, AM Johnstone, CA Hardman, FIO-Food Team

Year: 2024

Published in: Science Direct

Institution: Robert Gordon University, University College London, University of Aberdeen, University of Liverpool

Research Area: Food Insecurity, Public Health, Behavioral Economics (focusing on food purchasing behaviors and preparation practices related to obesity, cost of living)

Discipline: Public Health

The study examines how the UK cost of living crisis affects food purchasing and preparation behaviors in people with obesity, highlighting food insecurity and associated coping strategies, and calls for policy interventions to improve access to healthy foods.

Methods: An online survey was conducted with self-reported data on food insecurity, diet quality, cost of living impact, and food purchasing/preparation behaviors among adults with BMI ≥30 kg/m2 in England or Scotland.

Key Findings: Food insecurity, diet quality, impacts of the cost of living crisis, food purchasing behaviors, and food preparation practices among participants.

Citations: 46

Sample Size: 583
Planning for New Threats to Online Research Data Validity: The Issue of Computer-Using Agents

Authors: J Agley

Year: 2024

Published in: Evaluation & the Health Professions, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com

Institution: Indiana University, Prevention Insights

Research Area: Health Research and Evaluation, Data Validity, Computational Social Science

Discipline: Public Health, Computational Social Science

Citations: 2
Researching childhood vaccine hesitancy in the wake of COVID-19

Authors: Alistair Anderson, Tom Douglass, Pru Hobson-West

Year: 2024

Published in: Science Direct

Institution: University of Birmingham, University of Nottingham

Research Area: Vaccine Hesitancy, Public Health, Sociology of Health

Discipline: Sociology of Health, Public Health

Citations: 2
Fear of COVID-19: Data of a large longitudinal survey conducted between March 2020 and June 2021

Authors: G Mertens, P Lodder, T Smeets, S Duijndam

Year: 2023

Published in: Data in Brief, 2023 - Elsevier

Institution: Tilburg University

Research Area: COVID-19 Fear, Longitudinal Survey Data, Psychology, Public Health

Discipline: Public Health, Psychology

Citations: 8
How is online self-reported weight compared with image-captured weight? A comparative study using data from an online longitudinal study of young adults

Authors: MC Whatnall, KZ Kolokotroni, TE Fozard

Year: 2023

Published in: The American Journal of ..., 2023 - Elsevier

Institution: The University of Sheffield, The University of Edinburgh

Research Area: Public Health, Behavioral Science, Digital Health

Discipline: Clinical Nutrition, Public Health, Behavioral Science

Citations: 4
Understanding eating behaviours, mental health and weight change in young adults: protocol paper for an international longitudinal study

Authors: M Whatnall, T Fozard, K Kolokotroni, J Marwood, T Evans, L Jane Ells, T Burrows

Year: 2022

Published in: British Medical Journal

Institution: Leeds Beckett University, The University of Newcastle Australia

Research Area: Eating behaviors, Mental Health, Weight Change in Young Adults, Public Health

Discipline: Public Health
Rather than inducing psychological reactance, requiring vaccination strengthens intentions to vaccinate in US populations

Authors: Dolores Albarracin, Haesung Jung, Wen Song, Andy Tan & Jessica Fishman

Year: 2021

Published in: Nature

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Research Area: Vaccine Uptake, Psychological Reactance, Health Behavior

Discipline: Behavioral Science, Public Health
Use of rapid online surveys to assess people's perceptions during infectious disease outbreaks: a cross-sectional survey on COVID-19

Authors: P Geldsetzer

Year: 2020

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research, 2020 - jmir.org

Institution: Stanford University

Research Area: Public Health Surveillance, Survey Methodology, Infectious Disease Outbreaks, COVID-19

Discipline: Public Health, Digital Health Research

Citations: 596