Corrigendum to "Development and evaluation of a training of trainers intervention for nursing professionals during COVID-19 pandemic in India" [The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 25 (2024) 100413].

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.

Assessing Adult ADHD: An Updated Review of Rating Scales for Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Method: Scholarly articles on adult ADHD between 1996 and 2022 were reviewed using the PRISMA guidelines. ADHD rating scales with multiple citations were selected and their psychometric properties and symptom coverage were analyzed.

Results: Ten rating scales, with sound psychometric properties, were identified.

Effectiveness of multi-disciplinary structured training program on mentoring and mental well-being for officers and instructors in the Indian Air Force.

Background: The military environment is characterized by unpredictable situations, intensive training, demanding workload, and job-associated stressors, which make it highly stressful. Mentorship and mental well-being training could be beneficial to both officers and the new adolescent recruits of the Indian Air Force (IAF).

Aim: This study aimed at evaluating the effect of a multi-disciplinary structured training on mentoring and mental well-being among officers and instructors in the IAF.

Anxiety sensitivity as a predictor, and non-specific therapeutic factors as predictors and mediators of CBT outcome for obsessive-compulsive disorder in a naturalistic mental health setting.

Objective: We examined the unique predictive strength of anxiety sensitivity (AS) and the role of expectancy, credibility, and therapeutic alliance (TA) as predictors and mediators of cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) outcomes in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Method: The current study is a prospective cohort study. Participants (N = 116) were treatment-seeking individuals with a primary diagnosis of OCD.

Design and development of a training video for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) on brief psychological intervention for depression.

Background: Depression poses a major public health burden and has a large treatment gap in India. The study attempts to address this treatment gap by developing a training video for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), who are community health workers, on brief psychological intervention for depression.

Methods: The systematic steps utilized in the design and development of the training video on depression were: 1) Content development of the video script and training booklet for ASHAs based on the review of research literature and two Focus Group Discussions, 2) Mental Health Professionals' evaluation of the video script and training booklet for ASHAs, 3) Translation from English to Kannada, 4) ASHAs' evaluation of the video script and training booklet for ASHAs, 5) Conversion of the video script into a 'shooting script', 6) Video production, 7) Evaluation of the training video, 8) Post-production of the training video, and 9) Development of the training guide.

Client perspectives on perceived barriers to homework adherence in psychotherapy: An exploratory study from India.

We explored perceived barriers to homework adherence in clients receiving individual psychotherapy. Ninety-four adults with at least four individual psychotherapy sessions were recruited from outpatient services of a tertiary hospital in India and assessed on the Barriers to CBT Homework Completion Scale, Homework Compliance Scale, and Clinical Global Impressions scale. More than one-fourth completed some portion of the homework.

Maximizing the non-specific factors in brief cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder and agoraphobia: A multiple baseline case series documenting feasibility and initial efficacy.

There is evidence for non-specific factors impacting treatment outcomes, with pragmatic concerns regarding the need to popularize briefer formats of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The need to have more culturally suitable and acceptable forms of CBT is also indicated. We evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of a brief 5 session CBT (bCBT) in participants (N = 4) with panic disorder (PD) and agoraphobia, using a non-concurrent multiple baseline design.

Mental health orientation among ASHAs: A study from Karnataka State, India.

Introduction: The high mental health treatment gap in India, necessitates mental health service delivery through the primary health care system. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) as frontline community health workers are a key member of the primary health care team. The ASHAs training needs related to mental health, require to be determined in order to accordingly tailor capacity-building programs.

Psychological preparedness for pandemic (COVID-19) management: Perceptions of nurses and nursing students in India.

Introduction: The growing COVID-19 pandemic has posed a great threat to millions of people worldwide. Nurses and nursing students are an important group of health professionals who are most likely to face many challenges in this unprecedented scenario. The present study aimed at exploring nurses' and nursing students' perception of psychological preparedness for the pandemic (COVID-19) management.

Pathways to mental health consultations: A study from a tertiary care setting in India.

Background: Research indicates that help seeking for mental health is low and often delayed. Understanding pathways to care is crucial to facilitate mental health referrals and reduce the time to consultation.

Methods: In the present study, 63 individuals were assessed on illness severity, attitudes towards help-seeking and pathways-to-care.

Efficacy of a Brief Self-management Intervention in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized Controlled Trial from India.

Background: Diabetes mellitus places a considerable burden on the individual and the family with respect to lifestyle changes. There is a paucity of systematic studies in India examining the efficacy of self-management programs for diabetes. The study examined the impact of a brief self-management intervention (SMI) on primary outcome of HbA1c and secondary outcomes of quality of life (QOL), self-care, perceived barriers to self-care (BSC), perceptions regarding illness and mood in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Risky Riding and Its Correlates in Two-Wheeler Riding Young Men: Pillion Riders' Perspective.

Background: Risky riding is one of the major contributing factors in road fatalities. The present study aimed to explore the risky riding behaviors and its correlates in two-wheeler riding young men, as ascertained from pillion riders' perspective.

Materials And Methods: A survey that captured perspective of pillion riders about two-wheeler riding young men with whom they used to pillion ride most frequently was administered on 115 subjects.

Illness perceptions and health beliefs in persons with common mental disorders.

Introduction: Help seeking is crucial in the context of illness management and care. Various psychological factors impact this process of help-seeking. In this background, the present study explored illness perceptions, attitudes to help-seeking, work and social adjustment in addition to clinical correlates, in a sample of 63 treatment seeking individuals.

Long-term Outcomes of Intensive Inpatient Care for Severe, Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Résultats à long terme de soins intensifs à des patients hospitalisés pour un trouble obsessionnel-compulsif grave et résistant.

Objective: A substantial proportion of severely ill patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) do not respond to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) and are unable to practice cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on an out-patient basis. We report the short-term (at discharge) and long-term (up to 2 years) outcome of a multimodal inpatient treatment program that included therapist-assisted intensive CBT with adjunctive pharmacotherapy for severely ill OCD patients who are often resistant to SRIs and are either unresponsive or unable to practice outpatient CBT.

Methods: A total of 420 patients, admitted between January 2012 and December 2017 were eligible for the analysis.

Emotion Recognition, Emotion Awareness, Metacognition, and Social Functioning in Persons with Schizophrenia.

Background: Emotion processing has received significant research attention in persons with schizophrenia. However, some aspects of this construct, such as emotion awareness, are less researched. In addition, there is limited work on metacognitive awareness and social functioning in persons with schizophrenia.

Self-Reported Anger: Vulnerability for Risky Behaviors in Two-Wheeler Riding Young Men.

Objectives: Aggressive driving and road accidents are major concerns in the public health sector. This study aimed to explore risk to aggressive and risky behaviors on the road in two-wheeler riding young men.

Methods: The study comprised 433 young male two-wheeler riders from an urban city of India.

New-wave behavioral therapies in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Moving toward integrated behavioral therapies.

New-wave behavioral therapies in obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCDs) comprise of third-wave therapies and newer cognitive therapies (CTs). This review covers outcome studies published in English until December 2017. A total of forty articles on mindfulness-based CT, metacognitive therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and danger ideation reduction therapy in the form of single-case studies, case series, open-label trials, two-group comparison studies, and randomized controlled studies were included.

Felt needs for psychological training to enhance performance: Perspectives of youth engaged in competitive sports.

Background: Individuals undergoing training in competitive sports are required to deal with various challenges such as real and perceived pressures to perform and invest sustained efforts in rigorous training regimens. Global literature indicates successful inclusion of psychological components in the training of sportspersons. It is well recognized that training programs need to be designed keeping in view the local contextual factors as well as felt needs.

Cognitive behavioural interventions in addictive disorders.

Cognitive behaviour therapy is a structured, time limited, psychological intervention that has is empirically supported across a wide variety of psychological disorders. CBT for addictive behaviours can be traced back to the application of learning theories in understanding addiction and subsequently to social cognitive theories. The focus of CBT is manifold and the focus is on targeting maintaining factors of addictive behaviours and preventing relapse.