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Last published 2026
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Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

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University Professor

Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019); Society for Neuroscience (2009); United States Department of Justice (2011); United States Bureau of Reclamation (2015); University of British Columbia (2009–2016); University of Szeged (2013–2019); University of Alabama at Birmingham (1989–2005); University at Albany, State University of New York (1984); Institute of Mental Health (2013); Michael Smith Health Research BC (2009); Kelvin Nanotechnology (United Kingdom) (2011); East–West University (2014); Institute of Criminology (2018); BC Children's Hospital (2009–2018); Metropolitan Asian Family Services (2012); Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (2023); Child and Family Research Institute (2013–2014); University of Wales (1996)

Faculty Researcher

41 h-index 194 pubs 7,102 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Male
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Depression
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Child
  • Risk Factors
  • Violence
  • Young Adult
  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Hungary
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Social Support

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick's research program investigates the complex interplay between social factors, behavioral patterns, and mental health outcomes across diverse populations. His work has examined the influence of social support on adolescent mental health in Jordan, the relationship between smartphone addiction, sleep insufficiency, and cognitive decline among medical students, and the impact of online self-disclosure and social media addiction on depression in Hungarian university students. Fitzpatrick has also studied the effects of social vulnerabilities and place-level disadvantage on food insecurity and negative mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

His research extends to global health issues, including an examination of vaccine acceptance patterns across 23 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting that barriers to vaccination were not solely driven by vaccine hesitancy. Fitzpatrick's collaborations include work with Grant Drawve and Michael Niño at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Caitlin Tidwell and Don E. Willis at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, resulting in multiple shared publications. He maintains an active lab website and leads a research group. Fitzpatrick is recognized as a highly cited researcher, with a documented h-index of 41 and over 7,000 citations across more than 190 publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 41
  • Publications: 194
  • Citations: 7,102

Selected Publications

  • Associations of food insecurity with gestational weight gain: findings from 10 PRAMS study sites (2016-2021) (2026)
    American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM DOI OpenAlex
  • Cultivating change through environmental dynamics: School-based sustainability education as a catalyst for youth agency (2026)
    Research Square DOI OpenAlex
  • Race, Place, and Unequal Health (2025)
    The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society DOI OpenAlex
  • Race, Place, and Unequal Health (2025)
    The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society DOI OpenAlex
  • Feeling Good or Doing Good? Stemming the Food Insecurity Tide (2024)
    Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Association between impulsivity and cognitive capacity decrease is mediated by smartphone addiction, academic procrastination, bedtime procrastination, sleep insufficiency and daytime fatigue among medical students: a path analysis (2023)
    BMC Medical Education 35 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Place Still Matters: Social Vulnerabilities, Place-Level Disadvantage, and Food Insecurity during COVID-19 (2023)
    Nutrients 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Context, Proximity, and Individual Risk for Early-Pandemic Fear of Covid-19 Infection: A Multilevel Analysis of American Adults in March 2020 (2022)
    Medical Research Archives 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry (2022)
    Anxiety Stress & Coping 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Social Differences in Health Behaviours among Jordanian Adolescents (2022)
    European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Examining disparities in the early adoption of Covid-19 personal mitigation across family structures (2022)
    AIMS Public Health 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Relationships Among Depression, Online Self-Disclosure, Social Media Addiction, and Other Psychological Variables Among Hungarian University Students (2022)
    The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Problematic alcohol use history among persons experiencing homelessness in Northwest Arkansas (2022)
    Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless DOI OpenAlex
  • Social and behavioral vulnerability, pregnancy, and negative mental health outcomes in the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic (2022)
    AIMS Public Health 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Risk of disordered eating in emerging adulthood: Media, body and weight-related correlates among Hungarian female university students (2021)
    PubMed 6 citations DOI OpenAlex

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