Biopsychosocial medicine research trends: connecting clinical medicine, psychology, and public health
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Biopsychosocial medicine research trends: connecting clinical medicine, psychology, and public health Mutsuhiro Nakao1*, Gen Komaki2, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi3, Hans-Christian Deter4 and Shin Fukudo5 Growth of biopsychosocial medicine The journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine was launched in January 2007, nearly 13 years ago. This is a peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of the interrelationships between the biological, psychological, social, and behavioral elements of health and disease [1]. The journal emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to illness and health, covering the behavioral sciences, social sciences, neuroscience, stress physiology and epidemiology, psychoneuroendocrinology/immunology, gut-brain axis, psycho-cardiology and psycho-oncology, all of which are associated with mind–body interactions and psycho social interventions including psychosomatic/behavioral therapeutic approach.. As of October 2020, 331 articles have been published, comprising 222 original research reports (67.1%), 63 reviews (19.0%), 25 case reports (7.6%), 14 editorials (4.2%), and seven other articles (2.1%). When all published articles were assigned to three main areas of study, biological/psychosomatic medicine, psychology, and public health, 142 (42.9%) articles were categorized in the biological/psychosomatic domain, 120 (36.3%) in the psychological area, 51 (15.4%) in public health, and 18 (5.4%) as “others”. The main topics in each area are shown in Table 1. A variety of psychosomatic illnesses have been investigated, including eating disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, coronary heart diseases, and allergic diseases. Articles related to women’s and children’s health and series in several clinical fields like pediatrics, gynecology, * Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, 4-3, Kozunomori, Narita-shi, Chiba 286-8686, Japan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
and dentistry were initiated. Cognitive behavioral therapies, relaxation training, and special treatments as Yoga or Kampo medicine have often been employed with such psychosomatic illnesses, and were carefully evaluated. Social factors such as work stress and over-adaptation have been shown to be associated with mind/body health.
Recent interest in biopsychosocial medicine Interest in biopsychosocial medicine has grown recently. For example, according to tabulations by Springer Nature, articles in this journal were accessed 197,797 times during 2019. This translates to an average of 16,483 accesses per month, with frequencies ranging from 12,345 in January to 21,324 in December 2019. Major visits by geography were as follows; United States (35%), United Kingdom (10%), Japan (9%), India (7%), Australia (6%), Canada (5%), Philippines (3%), Germany (1%), Netherlands (1%), Italy (1%), Ireland (1%), and Indonesia (1%). The top 10 articles, selected from among t
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