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{"title":"Gut microbiota and psychiatric disorders.","authors":"Sweta Jaiswal, Arundhati Bag, Samrat Singh Bhandari","doi":"10.5958/2394-2061.2022.00016.7","DOIUrl":"10.5958/2394-2061.2022.00016.7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The impact of gut microbiota in mental health has been one of the most exciting and probably one of the most discussed topics of psychiatric research in the last decade. The gut microbiota may play an important role in the development of neuropsychiatric diseases, according to a growing body of research. Gut microbiota is a key regulator of gut-brain axis and may shape our brain physiology; thus, any change in its composition may change our behaviour due to altered psychiatric conditions. Relationship of gut microbiota with different mental illnesses is discussed in this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"13 2","pages":"90-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11142532/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141200856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gearing up to tackle mental health issues in the post-COVID-19 world.","authors":"Nikhil Nayar,&nbsp;Shijo John Joseph,&nbsp;Samrat Singh Bhandari,&nbsp;Sanjiba Dutta,&nbsp;Sheikh Shoib","doi":"10.5958/2394-2061.2021.00002.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2394-2061.2021.00002.1","url":null,"abstract":"An earth-shattering crisis like this pandemic has shook the foundations of our identity, leaving all of us to feel different and pushing us to acclimatise to the “new normal”. We were probably not sufficiently equipped at the arrival of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and we seem to be less geared for the post-COVID-19 era. Therefore, addressing the need areas for psychological support, building appropriate strategies, formulating target-based interventions, and getting the best out of ongoing research work is necessary before it is too late.","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"65-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7591143/pdf/nihms-1614992.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38545835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Profile of distress callers and service utilisation of tele-counselling among the population of Assam, India: an exploratory study during COVID-19.","authors":"Mythili Hazarika,&nbsp;Bornali Das,&nbsp;Shyamanta Das,&nbsp;Atanu Baruah,&nbsp;Nivedita Sharma,&nbsp;Chandamita Barua,&nbsp;Jayashree Das,&nbsp;Sandamita Choudhury,&nbsp;Dyuksha Hazarika,&nbsp;Phulen Sarma,&nbsp;Samrat Singh Bhandari","doi":"10.5958/2394-2061.2021.00001.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2394-2061.2021.00001.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected people globally by causing psychological, social, and economic chaos. The Assam Police, India started telephone helplines to address the psychological issues.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To evaluate the sociodemographic profile of the distress callers, their psychosocial concerns, the interventions provided by the service provider, and whether the service users were satisfied with the intervention(s) or not.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>It was a cross-sectional study done during the period of lockdown (7-24 April 2020). All the callers who called the helpline were screened for anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts (when required), and the psychosocial issues which they were facing were explored. They were provided the psychological intervention(s) at the appropriate time, and they were asked to rate their experience at the end.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 239 callers used the tele-counselling services. The majority of callers were male (79.1%). Most of the callers were between 19-35 years of age group (66.5%), married (52.5%), and graduates (31%). Two-thirds of the callers called to seek guidance for their own issues and one-third for their relatives or friends. Callers had anxiety (46%), depressive disorder (8.3%), and depressive symptoms not qualifying for depressive disorder (14%), and suicidal thoughts (5.44%). The commonest intervention provided to the callers was supportive (77.8%), followed by psychoeducation (30.5%), cognitive behaviour therapy (24.7%), relaxation (23.6%) and behaviour therapy (13.4%). Most of the callers utilised more than one type of therapy. Overall, most of the callers were satisfied and appreciated the tele-counselling services.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings could help in formulating psychological interventions to improve the mental health of vulnerable groups in the post-COVID-19 period to reduce psychiatric morbidity and mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":"7-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7644027/pdf/nihms-1641458.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38587076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Out of the closet.","authors":"Mythili Hazarika,&nbsp;Shyamanta Das,&nbsp;Bornali Das,&nbsp;Milin Dutta,&nbsp;Samrat Singh Bhandari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An editorial on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and the initiatives of an activist for the community with those of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) as well as the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).</p>","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"11 2","pages":"73-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7416773/pdf/nihms-1587556.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38252458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The cacophony of emotions in a mental health professional from the isolation ward during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.","authors":"Mythili Hazarika","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is a narrative of the thoughts of a first-line healthcare worker, and the psychological overview of the same while working in isolation ward and being in quarantine during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"11 2","pages":"130-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7416775/pdf/nihms-1591979.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38252460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tele-mental health during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.","authors":"Mythili Hazarika,&nbsp;Suresh Bada Math","doi":"10.5958/2394-2061.2020.00023.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2394-2061.2020.00023.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This editorial highlights the origin of telemedicine in India, and discusses the present and explores the possibilities in the future in the context of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"11 2","pages":"77-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064557/pdf/nihms-1687795.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38907981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychological concerns and musculoskeletal pain amidst the COVID-19 lockdown.","authors":"Shijo John Joseph,&nbsp;Sheikh Shoib,&nbsp;Thejaswi Sg,&nbsp;Samrat Singh Bhandari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"11 2","pages":"137-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409951/pdf/nihms-1611597.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38247001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) related to plagiarism.","authors":"Samrat Singh Bhandari,&nbsp;Shyamanta Das","doi":"10.5958/2394-2061.2019.00019.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2394-2061.2019.00019.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This editorial highlights the pertinent issue of intentionally or unintentionally using other sources without proper citation in scientific literature and how the journal stringently tries to follow zero tolerance towards such practice with the active cooperation of the authors, reviewers, and editors.</p>","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"10 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6481946/pdf/nihms-1016606.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37369142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Father and son attachment styles in alcoholic and non-alcoholic families.","authors":"Mythili Hazarika,&nbsp;Dipesh Bhagabati","doi":"10.5958/2394-2061.2018.00003.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2394-2061.2018.00003.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The theory of attachment is important to understand a lot of human behaviour. Styles of attachment could be important predictors in developing dependence on alcoholism. Insecure attachment patterns could be significant risk factors for future alcohol use.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants for this study consist of fathers with alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS) from treatment centres and fathers from the community with no dependency on alcohol, and their sons (n=200). The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), socioeconomic status scale were administered, and attachment styles were derived by the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ). We hypothesised a prior concept reflecting theoretical predictions for the association between attachment styles and alcohol in both the generations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Statistics on SPSS-16 was used to test our hypotheses. As predicted, fathers with ADS had insecure attachments styles in comparison to the control group. Substance abuse/dependence and treatment participation were at an all-time low for the secure group.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings from this study identify attachment styles as an influential factor in understanding the divergence between alcohol dependence in treatment seekers. The findings further imply that differential treatment may need to be provided taking into account one's attachment representation to promote successful recovery. It also highlights the need to develop secure ties in children of alcoholic parents to protect them from use of substances as a coping and a learned mechanism. Limitations of the study and suggestions for further research are highlighted and implications for diagnosis and treatment are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"9 1","pages":"15-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5958/2394-2061.2018.00003.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37080051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phenomenology and predisposing factors of morbid jealousy in a psychiatric outdoor: a cross-sectional, descriptive study.","authors":"Satyajeet Kumar Singh,&nbsp;Samrat Singh Bhandari,&nbsp;Pramod Kumar Singh","doi":"10.5958/2394-2061.2017.00008.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2394-2061.2017.00008.8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Jealousy in a sexual relation has some advantage that it ensures propagation of one's own gene as put by evolutionary psychologists. However, if this belief is based on unfounded evidence it may impair the relationship between partners and may be extremely distressful. Morbid jealousy may present as obsession, overvalued idea, or delusion as one of the symptoms in different psychiatric disorders.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>The aim of the study was to find the frequency of patients with morbid jealousy presenting in the Department of Psychiatry of Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), the psychiatric diagnoses of such patients, frequency of different forms of morbid jealousy (obsession, overvalued idea, and delusion). Also, to assess predisposing or triggering factors for jealousy and to assess for suicidality in such patients and their partners.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>All patients attending the Department of Psychiatry, PMCH were administered a screening questionnaire and if they qualified they were further administered the operational criteria for morbid jealousy. The psychiatric diagnosis was confirmed with the tenth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems: Diagnostic Criteria for Research (ICD-10: DCR). Each patient was then administered a rating scale to quantify the psychopathology.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of 970 patients who attended outpatient department, 658 patients were administered the screening questionnaire, 174 qualified who were later assessed with the operational criteria for morbid jealousy. Fifty patients who fulfilled the criteria were assessed. The mean age of presentation for both sexes were 36.44 year (SD=13.12 years). Morbid jealousy was found to be twice as common in males as compared in females. Highest prevalence was found among participants who had higher secondary education, belonged to middle socioeconomic status, and having psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia followed by depression. Delusional jealousy was the commonest followed by overvalued idea and obsession. A total of 20% of patients reported substance abuse like alcohol, cannabis, nicotine etc. either currently or in the past. Triggering factors found were spouse working away from home, interaction with opposite sex, attractiveness as perceived by the person with morbid jealousy. Females either as patients of morbid jealousy or as partners of a morbidly jealous spouse, carried the higher risk of suicide as compared to males.</p>","PeriodicalId":31007,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences","volume":"8 2","pages":"129-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6625799/pdf/nihms-1039786.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37415721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}