Publications by authors named "Abhijnhan A"
Background: There are multiple economic, psychological, and physical consequences of high job stress, low job satisfaction and burnout in faculty of a teaching hospital in South India. Data from developing countries on these domains are sparse.
Materials And Methods: In a cross-sectional study we assessed the prevalence and sources of perceived job stress, job satisfaction and burnout in faculty, as well as ways of coping with stress among consenting faculty of a large, private, charitable, teaching hospital in India using standardized, self-rated questionnaires.
Background: Ayurvedic medicine has been used to treat mental health problems since 1000 BC.
Objectives: To review effects of Ayurvedic medicine or treatments for schizophrenia.
Search Strategy: We searched the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group Trials Register (March 2007) and AMED (March 2007), inspected references of all identified studies and contacted the first author of each included study.
Searching a biomedical bibliographic database from Bulgaria: the ABS database.
Health Info Libr J
September 2007
Background: The University of Sofia, Bulgaria, disseminates local biomedical literature (1994 to present) through a free online database, ABS.
Objectives: Our objectives were to systematically search ABS, identify citations to controlled trials and discover what proportion of these studies are to be found on medline.
Methods: We searched using Bulgarian and English phrases; manually selected citations of controlled trials and sought these citations on medline.
Background: Antipsychotic drugs are the mainstay treatment for schizophrenia and similar psychotic disorders. Long-acting depot injections of drugs such as fluspirilene are extensively used as a means of long-term maintenance treatment.
Objectives: To review the effects of depot fluspirilene versus placebo, oral anti-psychotics and other depot antipsychotic preparations for people with schizophrenia in terms of clinical, social and economic outcomes.