Exploring psychosocial factors in the functional recovery of children with severe mental disorders: A qualitative content analysis.

Background: Severe mental disorders during childhood and adolescence can be chronic and disturbing, and may result in serious impairments in functioning. Research on the influence of such factors in the functional recovery of children diagnosed with severe mental illnesses is scant. This study aims to enhance understanding of the patterns and descriptions of social factors in the optimal functioning of children with severe mental illnesses.

Perceived social support, loneliness, and depression among elderly living in old-age homes.

Background: Older persons occasionally or permanently relocate from their own houses to institutions or old-age homes as a result of the current socio-demographic changes and circumstances. In this scenario, the current study aimed to assess the perceived social support, loneliness, and depression among the elderly living in old-age homes.

Materials And Methods: We have conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study among the elders living in old-age homes in Bengaluru urban, who have been staying in old-age homes for at least 6 months or above, and the age group of 60 years or above.

Efficacy of Psychosocial Care Training Programme for the Staff Working in Old Age Homes.

Background: Training the old-age home staff is essential in raising geriatric mental health care standards in India. Inadequate knowledge on ageing and psychosocial interventions is a significant issue in old-age homes. Old-age home staff must know how to provide individualized psychosocial care and support for older adults.

Marriage in persons with severe mental illness: A narrative review-based framework for a supported relationship.

Background: Studies in the past have shown the effect of mental illness on marriage in persons with severe mental illnesses (SMIs). Primary care and family physicians have a major role in addressing marriage-associated dilemmas in their life.

Methods: The literature search was conducted from databases such as PubMed, ProQuest, EBSCO, Scopus, and Google Scholar for understanding the context and the problem in-depth for bringing out the narrative-review based framework for addressing the dilemmas.

Profiles of Victimized Outpatients with Severe Mental Illness in India.

Persons with severe mental illness (PwSMI) are at risk of being victimized due to persistent cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms, which can become potential threats for effective reintegration into the community. A total of 217 PwSMI, receiving outpatient psychiatric treatment from a tertiary hospital, were screened for abuse, and if they were identified as abuse, then information about contextual factors contributing to abuse, sociodemographic, family, and clinical and legal profiles was created. Overall, 150 PwSMI were victimized, of which 56% were females, 50.

Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution.

Background: A good number of psychiatric patients continue to stay in psychiatric hospitals for longer period of time despite their recovery. Inevitably, they tend to experience limitations to their freedom, personal choice and social isolation, and loss of self. It is important to assess the characteristics of these patients and the challenges in social integration.

Relationship of personality, psychological distress, and substance use with social network characteristics of college going young adults.

Background: Causes of substance use are multifactorial. Factors such as personality, psychological distress, and the person's social ties contribute to the understanding of substance use problems of college students.

Aim: The current study aimed to investigate the association between personality traits and psychological distress with ego-centric social networks of substance-using and non-using college students.

Lived Experiences of Persons with Chronic Schizophrenia Living in the Community.

Background: Each individual with schizophrenia experiences life uniquely, despite the sameness in their diagnosis. Understanding their experiences is vital for their better community integration and social work practice.

Method: We used the interpretative phenomenological approach.

Predictors of long-stay in a tertiary care psychiatry hospital in India.

Background: Many psychiatric patients continue to stay for longer duration in psychiatric institutions. Community reintegration and rehabilitation of such patients needs to be explored to ensure appropriate bed occupancy rates and access to in-patient care for newer patients in need of the same.

Objectives: The aim is to identify the risk and protective factors leading to long-term admission of mentally ill patients in tertiary care hospital.

Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy for an adolescent girl with moderate depression.

Globally, the solution-focused brief therapy is practiced in persons with depression. In India, fewer studies have documented about the treatment outcome of solution-focused therapy among persons with depression. The current study was carried out with a 19-year-old girl, studying SSLC (10(th) Standard) was diagnosed with moderate depression.

Quality of Life in Cancer Patients with Disfigurement due to Cancer and its Treatments.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of disfigurement due to cancer and its treatments on quality of life.

Materials And Methods: A total of 120 patients from the inpatient/outpatient department of oncology who had undergone various forms of treatment for cancer were included in this study. The WHOQuality of Life BREF (WHOQL-BREF) version was administered to the patients to assess their quality of life.