| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Post-Traumatic Growth After a Myocardial Infarction: A Matter of Personality, Psychological Health, or Cognitive Coping? | Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings | 2008 | 1,042 |
| 2 | Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome after intrauterine transfusion for hemolytic disease of the fetus/newborn: the LOTUS study | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2012 | 125 |
| 3 | Illness perceptions in cancer survivors: what is the role of information provision? | Psycho-Oncology | 2013 | 121 |
| 4 | Oral contraceptives containing drospirenone for premenstrual syndrome | The Cochrane Library | 2012 | 120 |
| 5 | Quality of life (QoL) impairments in patients with a pituitary adenoma: a systematic review of QoL studies | Pituitary | 2015 | 95 |
| 6 | How do cancer patients manage unattainable personal goals and regulate their emotions/ | British Journal of Health Psychology | 2008 | 94 |
| 7 | Symptom clusters in incident dialysis patients: associations with clinical variables and quality of life | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2008 | 84 |
| 8 | Association Between a Self-Rated Health Question and Mortality in Young and Old Dialysis Patients: A Cohort Study | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2008 | 81 |
| 9 | Cancer patients' experience of positive and negative changes due to the illness: relationships with psychological well‐being, coping, and goal reengagement | Psycho-Oncology | 2011 | 76 |
| 10 | Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome after intrauterine transfusion for fetal anemia | Early Human Development | 2011 | 74 |
| 11 | Haemodialysis catheters increase mortality as compared to arteriovenous accesses especially in elderly patients | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2011 | 73 |
| 12 | Decision Making Regarding Prophylactic Mastectomy: Stability of Preferences and the Impact of Anticipated Feelings of Regret | Journal of Clinical Oncology | 2008 | 62 |
| 13 | Illness perceptions and coping determine quality of life in COPD patients | International Journal of COPD | 2016 | 56 |
| 14 | Effects of a cognitive behavioral self-help program and a computerized structured writing intervention on depressed mood for HIV-infected people: A pilot randomized controlled trial | Patient Education and Counseling | 2010 | 52 |
| 15 | Quality of life in young patients after bone tumor surgery around the knee joint and comparison with healthy controls | Pediatric Blood and Cancer | 2010 | 52 |
| 16 | Psychological Functioning and Disease-Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Patients With an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator | Pediatric Cardiology | 2012 | 52 |
| 17 | Towards a better quality of life (QoL) for patients with pituitary diseases: results from a focus group study exploring QoL | Pituitary | 2015 | 51 |
| 18 | Difference in quality of life, fatigue and societal participation between living and deceased donor kidney transplant recipients | Clinical Transplantation | 2013 | 47 |
| 19 | Xerosis and pruritus as major EGFRI-associated adverse events | Supportive Care in Cancer | 2016 | 45 |
| 20 | Functional ability and physical activity in children and young adults after limb‐salvage or ablative surgery for lower extremity bone tumors | Journal of Surgical Oncology | 2011 | 43 |
| 21 | Illness perceptions in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and proliferative lupus nephritis | Lupus | 2011 | 40 |
| 22 | “Feelings are facts”: Illness perceptions in patients with lung cancer | Respiratory Medicine | 2012 | 40 |
| 23 | Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome in monochorionic twins after fetal therapy | Early Human Development | 2011 | 38 |
| 24 | Enhanced self-efficacy after a self-management programme in pituitary disease: a randomized controlled trial | European Journal of Endocrinology | 2017 | 38 |
| 25 | Cognitive Coping, Goal Adjustment, and Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in People Undergoing Infertility Treatment | Journal of Health Psychology | 2010 | 37 |
| 26 | Patients' representations of their end-stage renal disease: relation with mortality | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2009 | 34 |
| 27 | Cognitive Coping and Goal Adjustment After First-Time Myocardial Infarction: Relationships With Symptoms of Depression | Behavioral Medicine | 2009 | 34 |
| 28 | Psychological intervention targets for people with visual impairments: The importance of cognitive coping and goal adjustment | Disability and Rehabilitation | 2010 | 34 |
| 29 | The impact of illness perceptions on sexual functioning in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2013 | 34 |
| 30 | Down or up? Explaining positive and negative emotions in parents of children with Down's syndrome: Goals, cognitive coping, and resources | Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability | 2009 | 33 |
| 31 | A prospective study on quality of life and functional outcome in children and adolescents after malignant bone tumor surgery | Pediatric Blood and Cancer | 2012 | 33 |
| 32 | Illness Perceptions and Outcomes in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Is Coping a Mediator? | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | 2017 | 33 |
| 33 | DISABKIDS smiley questionnaire: the TAKE 6 assisted health‐related quality of life measure for 4 to 7‐year‐olds | Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy | 2008 | 31 |
| 34 | Perceived Barriers and Support Strategies for Reducing Sodium Intake in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: a Qualitative Study | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | 2015 | 31 |
| 35 | Decision making around living and deceased donor kidney transplantation: a qualitative study exploring the importance of expected relationship changes | BMC Nephrology | 2012 | 30 |
| 36 | The effectiveness of a de-implementation strategy to reduce low-value blood management techniques in primary hip and knee arthroplasty: a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial | Implementation Science | 2017 | 27 |
| 37 | Quality of life and illness perceptions in patients with breast cancer using a fasting mimicking diet as an adjunct to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the phase 2 DIRECT (BOOG 2013–14) trial | Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | 2021 | 27 |
| 38 | Discomfort in children undergoing unsedated MRI | European Journal of Pediatrics | 2011 | 25 |
| 39 | Cognitive coping and goal adjustment in people with Peripheral Arterial Disease: Relationships with depressive symptoms | Patient Education and Counseling | 2009 | 24 |
| 40 | Managing a dual role—experiences and coping strategies of parents donating haploidentical G‐CSF mobilized peripheral blood stem cells to their children | Psycho-Oncology | 2012 | 24 |
| 41 | Illness perceptions are associated with mortality among 1552 colorectal cancer survivors: a study from the population-based PROFILES registry | Journal of Cancer Survivorship | 2016 | 24 |
| 42 | Determinants of impaired quality of life in patients with fibrous dysplasia | Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases | 2017 | 24 |
| 43 | Musicians’ illness perceptions of musculoskeletal complaints | Clinical Rheumatology | 2013 | 23 |
| 44 | Illness representations as mediators of the relationship between dispositional optimism and depression in patients with chronic tinnitus: A cross-sectional study | Psychology and Health | 2014 | 23 |
| 45 | The Bt‐DUX: Development of a subjective measure of health‐related quality of life in patients who underwent surgery for lower extremity malignant bone tumor | Pediatric Blood and Cancer | 2009 | 22 |
| 46 | Long-Term follow up after intra-Uterine transfusionS; the LOTUS study | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | 2010 | 22 |
| 47 | Health-related quality of life in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and proliferative lupus nephritis | Psychology, Health and Medicine | 2011 | 19 |
| 48 | Perceived barriers among physicians for stopping non–cost‐effective blood‐saving measures in total hip and total knee arthroplasties | Transfusion | 2014 | 19 |
| 49 | More concerns and stronger beliefs about the necessity of medication in patients with acromegaly are associated with negative illness perceptions and impairment in quality of life | Growth Hormone and IGF Research | 2015 | 19 |
| 50 | Quality of life is decreased in patients with paragangliomas | European Journal of Endocrinology | 2013 | 18 |
