About the Journal

The articles in this journal are published open access (OA)

Health Psychology Report (HPR) publishes high quality original articles and reviews of recognized scientists that deal with theories and research from the perspective of social and medicine medical science. HPR promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to health and illness. HPR opens the possibilities for young, capable scientists. The journal would like to give them a chance to have a publication following matter-of-fact, professional review by outstanding, famous scientists. Thanks to that they will have an opportunity to present their study results and/or receive useful advice about the mistakes they have made so far.

In particular we are interested in such topics as psychological aspects of illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors in the etiology of illnesses; health attitudes and behavior, including prevention and promotion; the individual-health care system interface, particularly communication, and psychologically- based interventions; child and adolescent health; couple and family relationships in health; lifespan approaches to health, including those related to older adults; quality of life and well being; and research methodology, measurement, and statistics in health psychology. However, we are open to innovative research and new conceptual reviews in the field of health psychology.

Copyright: © Institute of Psychology, University of Gdansk This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
The rights to the article are usually transferred by the authors to the owner of the journal, who makes it available under the Creative Commons license. However, if the author does not want to transfer the copyright to the publisher, he/she may contact the editorial office and set separate rules - under which the editorial office may publish an article in the journal. For the detailed information, please contact with editorial office.