Analysis of the Scientific Knowledge Map of Hot Fields and Frontier Trends of Sports and Mental Health in China
Objective To provide prospect forecast and beneficial reference for developing the innovative exploration of sports intervention on mental health problems.Methods a total of 212 articles from April 1993 to September 2022 were retrieved from CNKI database with the keywords of"Sports"and"Mental health",114 representative articles were selected from the core journals,and the knowledge mapping software VOSviewer was used for scientific econometric analysis.Results From 2020 to now,the number of papers has been increasing steadily.It is speculated that the increasing attention of mental health problems is related to the impact of covid-19 on industry and life pressure The research institutions are mainly in Beijing,Shanghai,Ningbo,Guangzhou and other provinces and cities in the developed areas,mainly in primary and secondary schools and scientific research institutes The research focuses on mental health,physical exercise behavior of adolescent students,intervention research,health promotion and health education Most of the articles were published in journals on School Health and behavioral medicine,and most of the research methods were intervention experiments and comparative analysis.Conclusion We should face up to the regional imbalance in the research development of sports intervention on mental health problems in China,and establish a long-term academic exchange mechanism with the scientific research units in the superior regions,to promote inter-disciplinary,inter-university and inter-regional Knowledge Information and research results sharing,timely analysis of mental health hot issues,give full play to the advantages of university scientific research,to strengthen the cooperation among psychiatry,physical education,psychology and other disciplines,and to formulate exercise prescriptions for medium-intensity group sports with the characteristics of collectivity,competition and interest,more conducive to improving the mental health problems of adolescent students.