Prevalence and factors associated with effective helmet use among motorcyclists in Mysuru City of Southern India.

Background: Helmet use reduces the risk and severity of head injury and death due to road traffic crash among motorcyclists. The protective efficacy of different types of helmets varies. Wearing firmly fastened full-face helmet termed as effective helmet use provides greatest protection.

Restraint prevalence and perceived coercion among psychiatric inpatients from South India: A prospective study.

Background: The Indian Mental Health Care Act 2017 (MHCA -2017) advocates the duty to provide treatment in the least coercive manner. Little data exists on how Indian patients perceive coercion in medical settings.

Aims: To study the prevalence of restraint in a Indian psychiatric inpatient unit, and to examine the level of perceived coercion correlating to various forms of restraint.

Factors influencing advance directives among psychiatric inpatients in India.

Objectives: Advance directives are documents stating treatment preferences in case of future lack of decision making capacity. In India, as in many other countries, legislators advocate Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs), while evidence on its use is limited. This study examined factors influencing PADs by gathering inpatients perspectives on PADs at discharge and investigating patient characteristics associated with the expression of treatment wishes in PADs.