{"title":"Validity and reliability of the Japanese versions of cognitive and behavioral scales for irritable bowel syndrome.","authors":"Nagisa Sugaya, Yoshitoshi Tomita, Misako Funaba, Hiroshi Iida, Kentaro Shirotsuki, Fumiyuki Chin Gardner, Toshinari Odawara, Tetsuya Ando, Masahiko Inamori","doi":"10.1186/s13030-022-00244-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-022-00244-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Cognitive Scale for Functional Bowel Disorders (CS-FBD) and Irritable Bowel Syndrome-Behavioral Responses Questionnaire (IBS-BRQ) are a useful measures to assess cognitive-behavioral aspects in individuals with IBS. This study aimed to confirm the reliability and validity of the Japanese versions of the CS-FBD (CS-FBD-J) and IBS-BRQ (IBS-BRQ-J).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants comprised 192 students and 22 outpatients diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). There were 76 students who met the diagnostic criteria for IBS and two students who received treatment for IBS. Participants completed questionnaires containing the CS-FBD-J, IBS Severity Index (IBS-SI), Visceral Sensitivity Index (VSI), 24-item Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale (DAS-24), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Social Adaptation Self-evaluation Scale (SASS).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our exploratory factor analysis revealed that the CS-FBD-J had a unidimensional factor structure and that the factor loadings for two of the 25 items were less than 0.4. The IBS-BRQ-J had a two-factor structure, and the factor loadings for eight of the 26 items were less than 0.4. The confirmatory factor analysis for the 18-item version of IBS-BRQ-J showed that the model fit indices were not sufficient. The CS-FBD-J and IBS-BRQ-J had significant, moderate correlations with the IBS-SI and VSI in the IBS and control groups. Correlation between the DAS-24 and the CS-FBD-J was not significant. The CS-FBD-J and IBS-BRQ-J were significantly correlated to the HADS and SASS (IBS-BRQ-J) only in the IBS group. The scores of CS-FBD-J and IBS-BRQ-J showed significant group differences between the IBS patient group, non-patient IBS group, and control group. The internal consistencies of the CS-FBD-J and IBS-BRQ-J were high. The item-total correlation analysis for the CS-FBD-J and IBS-BRQ-J showed that the correlations between each item and the total score were significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study confirmed the reliability and validity of the 23-item version of the CS-FBS-J and the 18-item version of the IBS-BRQ-J with the deletion of items with low factor loadings. Regarding the IBS-BRQ-J, two factor structures were confirmed (factor 1: behavior obsessed with abdominal symptoms, factor 2: avoidance of abdominal symptoms and associated difficulties) although the model fit of the structure needs further study.</p>","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9308329/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40628519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of practicing yoga on alexisomia: an open-label trial.","authors":"Takakazu Oka, Battuvshin Lkhagvasuren","doi":"10.1186/s13030-022-00243-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-022-00243-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Alexisomia refers to difficulties in the awareness and expression of somatic feelings. This idea was proposed by Dr. Yujiro Ikemi as a characteristic observed in patients with psychosomatic diseases and is based on his observations that patients with psychosomatic diseases have difficulty in the awareness and expression of not only their emotions, i.e., alexithymia, but also somatic feelings and sensations, i.e., alexisomia. He also proposed that treating alexisomia is important in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases and that yoga might help improve alexisomia. However, no study has investigated if yoga actually affects alexisomia. This open-label pilot study investigated whether practicing yoga in a class results in change in patients with alexisomia and alexithymia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Shitsu-taikan-sho Scale (STSS) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) were administered to 305 participants, including 64 healthy participants, 111 participants who had subjective symptoms without abnormal findings, and 130 participants with chronic diseases. Participants were tested before and 3 months after attending yoga classes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Yoga practice reduced the STSS and the TAS-20 difficulty in identifying feelings (DIF) subscale scores. Multiple linear regression indicated that a reduction in the TAS-20 DIF subscale scores predicted a decrease in the STSS score, whereas reductions in the STSS difficulty in identifying bodily feelings (DIB) and the lack of health management based on bodily feelings (LHM) subscale scores predicted a decrease in the TAS-20 scores.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We found that regular yoga practice improves alexisomia. Yoga-induced improvement of alexisomia may be mediated, at least in part, by an improvement of DIF in alexithymia. Yoga would be a promising therapeutic approach to improve alexisomia.</p>","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":"16 1","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9166595/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10307758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chihiro Morishita, Takeshi Inoue, Mina Honyashiki, Miki Ono, Y. Iwata, Hajime Tanabe, I. Kusumi, Jiro Masuya
{"title":"Roles of childhood maltreatment, personality traits, and life stress in the prediction of severe premenstrual symptoms","authors":"Chihiro Morishita, Takeshi Inoue, Mina Honyashiki, Miki Ono, Y. Iwata, Hajime Tanabe, I. Kusumi, Jiro Masuya","doi":"10.1186/s13030-022-00240-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-022-00240-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48972520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tomoe Nishihara, A. Ohashi, Yuko Nakashima, T. Yamashita, Kazutoshi Hiyama, Mika Kuroiwa
{"title":"Compassion fatigue in a health care worker treating COVID-19 patients: a case report","authors":"Tomoe Nishihara, A. Ohashi, Yuko Nakashima, T. Yamashita, Kazutoshi Hiyama, Mika Kuroiwa","doi":"10.1186/s13030-022-00239-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-022-00239-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44136183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The patterns of acceptance, mindfulness, and values for Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a web-based survey","authors":"J. Saito, H. Kumano","doi":"10.1186/s13030-022-00236-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-022-00236-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49668101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Ishizaki, Yoshitoki Yanagimoto, Yuri Fujii, Mana Yamamoto, Kazunari Kaneko
{"title":"Psychogenic fever and postural tachycardia syndrome among school-aged children and adolescents with fever of unknown origin","authors":"Y. Ishizaki, Yoshitoki Yanagimoto, Yuri Fujii, Mana Yamamoto, Kazunari Kaneko","doi":"10.1186/s13030-022-00238-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-022-00238-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46003737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: The effectiveness of Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM) for the assessment of the suffering and quality of interpersonal relationships of patients with chronic pain.","authors":"Mitsunao Tomioka, Masako Hosoi, Tomona Okuzawa, Kozo Anno, Rie Iwaki, Hiroshi Kawata, Chiharu Kubo, Nobuyuki Sudo","doi":"10.1186/s13030-021-00230-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-021-00230-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8787893/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39963523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Descriptive review of internet-based cognitive behavior therapy on anxiety-related problems in children under the circumstances of COVID-19.","authors":"Kentaro Shirotsuki, Nagisa Sugaya, Mutsuhiro Nakao","doi":"10.1186/s13030-021-00233-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-021-00233-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>COVID-19 continues to have a global impact and has yet to converge. Behavioral restrictions in daily life are widespread, forcing changes to the behavioral patterns of people. Significant changes have also occurred in children's lives, raising concerns about mental health. The same is true for anxiety symptoms.</p><p><strong>Research: </strong>In this paper, we described the COVID-19 pandemic effects on mental health, summarized Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) as an applicability of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for COVID-19, and summarized ICBT's current state as a response for anxiety. An overview of previous intervention studies, including randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on ICBT, showed that many studies were highly effective against anxiety symptoms. Furthermore, regarding the follow-up of ICBT's intervention effect, long-term effect maintenance was also clarified. It was likewise pointed out that ICBT may be used in the future since it is beneficial for children's anxiety symptoms in telemedicine.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Based on these results from previous studies, we discuss ICBT's applicability during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, future measures and prospects for children's mental health during the pandemic are discussed in this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744388/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39808309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on japanese patients with eating disorders -a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Shu Takakura, Kenta Toda, Makoto Yamashita, Tomoko Kitajima, Takafumi Suematsu, Hiroaki Yokoyama, Chie Suzuyama Asou, Tomokazu Hata, Nobuyuki Sudo","doi":"10.1186/s13030-021-00232-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-021-00232-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown had a considerable impact on eating disorders (EDs). We evaluated the clinical features of Japanese ED patients before and after the first COVID-19 outbreak-related state of emergency (April 7, 2020).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We studied 148 patients who were divided into two groups based on when they arrived at our clinic: before (Before group: n = 86) or after (After group: n = 62) the start of the first state of emergency. All patients completed the Japanese versions of the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) and Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The After group was substantially younger than the Before group (p = .0187). Regardless of the ED type, patients who developed an ED during the first state of emergency tended to be significantly younger than those who developed one before. Differences in EDI characteristics were observed between the two groups. The PBI care subscale was notably higher (p = .0177) in the After group. The PBI maternal care subscale was the only statistically significant factor associated with age (β = -0.35, p < .0001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Home confinement associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing increase in parent-child closeness may have influenced the decreased age of ED patients at their initial consultation. Treatment interventions should consider the differences in the clinical features of EDs.</p>","PeriodicalId":9027,"journal":{"name":"BioPsychoSocial Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8733913/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39792890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}