Objective: To know the basic status of researches on the mental health of prostatitis patients in China by statistical analysis of the literature published in the past two decades and provide some reference for such studies.
Methods: Using the bibliometrics method, we performed statistical analyses on the publication years, journals, and authors of the articles published in the core journals concerning the mental health of prostatitis patients in China as well as on the topics of the identified studies using their titles, key words and abstracts.
Results: Totally, 226 related studies were identified, of which 31 (by 29 authors) were published in the Chinese core journals. As for the topics of the included studies, 102 (45.13%) focused on the role and significance of psychotherapy in the treatment of prostatitis, 52 (23.01%) on the correlation of psychological factors with prostatitis, and 23 (10.18%) on the correlation of psychopathic factors with prostatitis complicated by sexual dysfunction. Most of the articles on the mental health of prostatitis patients were published in National Journal of Andrology.
Conclusions: Studies on the mental health of prostatitis patients in China are carried out in varied institutions and different directions but, however, need to be furthered and deepened. For this condition, a comprehensive therapeutic mode of "prevention-communication-treatment" is coming into being, and the methodology for related researches is gradually turning from linear to stereoscopic.
目的： 通过对近20年的文献统计分析，了解我国前列腺炎患者心理健康研究的基本状况和规律，为前列腺炎患者的心理医学研究提供参考数据。方法： 采用文献计量学方法，对我国前列腺炎患者心理健康研究文献的年代、期刊分布、核心期刊作者等进行统计，用文献的篇名、关键词以及文摘进行主题分析。结果： 共检索到234篇中文文献，其中相关学术论文共226篇，发表于核心期刊文献31篇，涉及作者共29人；研究主题集中在3个方面：其中研究心理疗法在治疗前列腺炎中的作用和意义的文献102篇，约占统计文献的45.13%，研究前列腺炎与精神心理因素相关性的文献52篇，约占统计文献的23.01%，研究伴发性功能障碍的前列腺炎与精神心理因素相关性的文献23篇，约占统计文献的10.18%；《中华男科学杂志》最关注前列腺炎患者心理健康的研究。结论： 我国前列腺炎患者心理健康研究呈现出研究阵地多元化、研究方向多样化，但有待进一步深入。“预防-沟通-治疗”等综合治疗模式已显现，相关研究有逐渐从平面角度上升到立体空间角度的趋势。.
Keywords: literature statistics; mode of "prevention-communication-treatment"; prostatitis; mental health.