Caregivers' Perspectives on Reasonable Accommodation for Persons with Severe Mental Disorders at the Workplace.

Background: Reasonable accommodation (RA) refers to adjustments or modifications that an employer makes to the workplace to enable an employee with a mental illness to perform the essential functions of their job. Employer and employee should work together to determine the most beneficial accommodations that would not impose an undue hardship on the employer.

Materials And Methods: An exploratory study design with a purposive sampling technique was used in the current study.

Optimizing psychiatric social work interventions: Formulating guidelines for mental health settings.

Background: Psychiatric social workers typically play an important role in the treatment and management of psychosocial issues at different levels, such as individual, family, and community levels. However, despite the field having a long history, there are significantly fewer standardized guidelines for interventions in mental health settings.

Methodology: This study aims to develop guidelines for psychiatric social work interventions in mental health settings.

A qualitative study on psycho-social needs of the family caregivers of persons with spinal cord injury.

Background: Spinal cord injury is a high-cost long-lasting disability and a life-changing experience for family caregivers (FCGs). The current study aimed to explore the psycho-social needs of the FCGs of persons with spinal cord injury (PwSCI).

Materials And Methods: An exploratory qualitative approach was used, and sixteen FCGs of PwSCI participated in the face-to-face interviews.

Rehabilitation Professionals' Perspectives on Psychosocial Needs of Family Caregivers of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury: A Qualitative Study from India.

Background: This study explored the psychosocial needs of family caregivers of persons with spinal cord injuries from the perspective of rehabilitation professionals.

Methods: An exploratory qualitative approach was used, and a total of 14 rehabilitation professionals from various backgrounds participated in face-to-face interviews. All interviews were audio recorded, and session notes were added to the existing data and later transcribed.

Quality of Life and Stigma among Women with Epilepsy during Their Reproductive Years.

Background And Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between quality of life and stigma among reproductive age group women with epilepsy.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to assess the data from the 49 women with epilepsy from a tertiary care hospital in India. Quality of life was evaluated with the quality of life in epilepsy-31 questionnaire and stigma was evaluated with the stigma scale of epilepsy.

Clinical and sociodemographic profiles of persons with spinal cord injury.

Aim: To collect and correlate the sociodemographic and clinical details of persons with spinal cord injury who were admitted to the Department of Neurological Rehabilitation.

Objectives: To assess the sociodemographic characteristics and collect the clinical profiles of persons with spinal cord injury and to correlate their sociodemographic and clinical details.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective file review was done over a period of 2 years from January 2017 to December 2018 to study patients with spinal cord injury who were admitted to the Neurological Rehabilitation ward of NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Employability of people with mental illness and substance use problems: Field realities.

Background: There has always been a strong association between mental illness and work-related disability. According to the "World Health Organization," of all disabilities, severe mental illness is associated with the highest rates of unemployment. People with mental illness and problems with substance use have especially low employment rates.