Improving Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) Through Promoting Health-Related Behaviors

Submission Deadline: 30 December 2025 View: 581 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Prof. Youngho Kim

Email: yk01@seoultech.ac.kr

Affiliation: Department of Health and Fitness, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, 01811, Korea

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Research Interests: exercise intervention, behavioral psychology

Dr. Garry Kuan

Email: garry@usm.my

Affiliation: School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, 11800, Malaysia

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Research Interests: psychometric development and validation, neuro/biofeedback

Summary

In this special issue, we would be interested in your research focusing on the interplay of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and health-related behaviors. It could explore how positive health behaviors lead to better health-related quality of life, and vice versa, potentially including a broad range of health behaviors like stress, mental health, eating, smoking, and physical activity etc.
Despite the positive relationships between HRQoL and a single health behavior (e.g., stress and mental health, physical activity, diet, substance use, and smoking etc.), a bidirectional link of various health-related behaviors with physical and mental health-related quality of life in a comprehensive viewpoint has often been overlooked. Recently, this holistic approach has started to stimulate increasing interest in many different academic fields, such as public health, behavioral medicine, psychology, clinical medicine, social sciences, and education. Therefore, we invite researchers from different fields to contribute to this special issue with their original research or review articles using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed research methods. This issue focuses on HRQoL and health behaviors in the community and clinical contexts, i.e. relationship and interconnections between physical and mental health quality of life and various health behaviors as well as health behavioral interventions that aim to improve HRQoL.

This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to health-related quality of life and various health behaviors. The listed themes suggest just a few of the many possibilities.
1) Health-Related Quality of Life among people with clinical mental health problems (i.e., depression, anxiety, anthropophobia etc.)
2) Association between Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Behaviors (i.e. stress and mental health, physical activity, diet, smoking etc.)
3) Association of Mental Health Problems with Addictions (.i.e., Drugs, Internet, Gambling etc.)
4) Clinical Interventions for Improving Health-Related Quality of Life People with Mental Health Problems (i.e., depression, anxiety, anthropophobia etc.)
5) Physical and Mental Health Quality of Life among people in different social contexts

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