Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, 100000, Viet Nam; Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Manchester Medical School, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom; Institute for Global Health Innovations, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 50000, Viet Nam.
Complement Ther Med. 2020 Mar;49:102350. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2020.102350. Epub 2020 Feb 19.
Mind-body therapies (MBT) are a range of practices which improve well-being and have shown promising results in a variety of illness. To inform the application of MBT in health promotion, and intervention designs, we conducted a global review of publication growth and content analysis of studies examining the impacts of MBT on quality of life (QoL) of different patient groups.
Data from 1990 to 2018 was collected from the Web of Science (WoS). They were analyzed with descriptive statistics (publication volume by year, citations, and countries). The development of research areas overtime was structured using Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and co-occurrence of keywords of titles, and abstracts.
3906 studies were obtained, with an exponential increase in recent years. Mindfulness, mental health, cancer, surgery, and QoL are common themes in the literature. Research has explored the efficacy, mechanism, and approaches to deliver MBT in both the general population and the patients.
MBT has proven promising in a wide range of medical conditions, not only as a complementary therapy but also been incorporated into health services, especially for chronic diseases. By characterizing the trends in research productivity, and topics, we suggest robust adverse reporting, and guidelines for disease specific MBT should be improved. This global mapping of MBT studies also provides insight for future research, policy, and management direction.
身心疗法（MBT）是一系列改善健康的实践方法，在各种疾病中已显示出有前景的效果。为了将 MBT 应用于健康促进和干预设计，我们对考察 MBT 对不同患者群体生活质量（QoL）影响的研究进行了全球文献增长回顾和内容分析。
我们从 Web of Science（WoS）收集了 1990 年至 2018 年的数据。通过描述性统计（每年的出版物数量、引用和国家）对其进行了分析。使用潜在狄利克雷分配（Latent Dirichlet Allocation）对随时间推移的研究领域的发展进行了结构化分析，并对标题和摘要中的关键词的共现进行了分析。
共获得 3906 项研究，近年来呈指数增长。文献中常见的主题是正念、心理健康、癌症、手术和 QoL。研究探索了 MBT 在普通人群和患者中的疗效、机制和实施方法。
MBT 在广泛的医疗条件下已被证明是有前景的，不仅作为一种补充疗法，而且还被纳入了卫生服务，特别是慢性病服务。通过描述研究生产力和主题的趋势，我们建议应改进针对特定疾病的 MBT 的稳健不良报告和指南。这项 MBT 研究的全球图谱也为未来的研究、政策和管理方向提供了见解。
