Merlo Gia, Vela Alyssa
Rory Meyers College of Nursing, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Am J Lifestyle Med. 2021 Jun 24;16(6):723-733. doi: 10.1177/15598276211023415. eCollection 2022 Nov-Dec.
Research suggests that mental health symptoms and disorders are historically underdiagnosed and undertreated, in part due to the siloed nature of medicine. Yet, approximately 50 million American adults experience a mental health disorder. As the field of lifestyle medicine continues to emerge and grow, there is an important opportunity to address mental health from a lifestyle medicine perspective, as well as to ensure that lifestyle medicine can be utilized for all patients, including those with mental health conditions. To effectively address mental health, the field of lifestyle medicine would benefit from understanding and leveraging the decades of science and practice from the fields of psychiatry and psychology, as well as the expertise of psychiatrists and psychologists who are familiar with the science and trained in lifestyle medicine. Incorporating empirical literature from other areas, utilizing well-established conceptual frameworks, and addressing the overlap between lifestyle medicine and mental health early in, and throughout, training and education, are important steps to move toward addressing mental and behavioral health with a lifestyle medicine approach.
研究表明，心理健康症状和障碍在历史上一直未得到充分诊断和治疗，部分原因是医学的孤立性质。然而，约5000万美国成年人患有心理健康障碍。随着生活方式医学领域不断涌现和发展，从生活方式医学角度解决心理健康问题，以及确保生活方式医学可用于所有患者，包括有心理健康状况的患者，存在重要契机。为有效解决心理健康问题，生活方式医学领域将受益于理解和利用精神病学和心理学领域数十年的科学与实践，以及熟悉该科学并接受过生活方式医学培训的精神病医生和心理学家的专业知识。纳入其他领域的实证文献、运用成熟的概念框架，以及在培训和教育的早期及整个过程中解决生活方式医学与心理健康之间的重叠问题，是以生活方式医学方法解决心理和行为健康问题的重要步骤。
