A prerequisite for the application of growth charts in youth mental health is the availability of normative developmental data that comprise important domains of emerging psychopathology, such as cognition, emotion regulation, and sleep [92]. These can also be complemented by neuroimaging data, peripher...
This study examined 92 patients attending the clinical services of the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS, India), who fulfilled DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia and were never treated with any psychotropic medications including antipsychotics. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was ...
Despite this, unlicensed providers are typically slum dwellers' ‘first point of contact with the health system’ [44,45,46]. Hence, a commonly cited challenge was figuring out how to acknowledge the presence of the private sector while continuing to improve the quality and availability of the ...
Availability of data and materials The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available on reasonable request from the corresponding author.Abbreviations 95% CI: 95% confidence intervals GHQ-12: General Health Questionnaire GP: General practitioners mhGAP: Mental Health Gap ...
Despite this substantial burden of disease and the availability of effective and affordable treatments, mental health care remains a neglected issue, especially in developing countries [1, 2]. A range of factors influence the prevention, onset and course of mental illness including poverty, sex, ...
reach mental health professionals, and that their pathways are influenced by various factors including conventions governing referral, relationships between mental health professionals and other sources of help, and the availability of and accessibility to mental health facilities and other helping agencies....
near Bangalore and Raipur Rani block of Ambala district, Haryana.[14 15] Sixty eight experts from the field of mental health, general health and health administration designed the first draft of National Mental Health Program and it was implemented in the country in 1982 with the purpose of pro...
During the past few months, mental health has received public and media attention in an unprecedented manner. This was related to the release of the report of the National Mental Health Survey (NMHS).[1] Media referred to the findings of the report as follows: “India needs to talk about ...
Purpose - Micro-finance self-help groups empower caregivers to indulge in productive activities based on the local availability of resources to reduce their financial burden. The purpose of this paper is to assess the need for and feasibility of initiating micro-finance groups for the caregivers of...
Non-specialists’ involvement in mental health care is encouraged in the field of global mental health to address the treatment gap caused by mental i