Key result
A concept paper proposes setting up a digital database for psychiatric illnesses in Pimpri-Chinchwad, India, to facilitate community psychiatry, minimize attrition, and support research.
Why the study?
Mental health issues represent a major public health problem with social and economic costs, and effective community psychiatry requires systems to track follow-up and facilitate research.
Discusses the modalities of setting up a database of psychiatric illnesses to enable community psychiatry practice and research.
Proposal for psychiatric database in India is hypothesis-generating; prospective studies needed before clinical adoption.
Mental Health Issues are an important public health problem. It has also social and economic costs. The Government of India is implementing the National Mental Health Program which includes upgrading of Psychiatry services of the medical colleges so as to provide community psychiatry services. This concept paper discusses the modalities of setting up a data base of psychiatric illnesses in the field practice areas of a medical college located in the twin township of Pimpri-Chinchwad, Pune District, Maharashtra. This database will enable practice of community psychiatry in collaboration with the Department of Community Medicine and can be a model for adoption in other medical institutions and nonteaching public hospitals as well as private hospitals. Most psychiatric illnesses require follow up and a good digital tracking system would minimise attritions. It would also facilitate community based research in mental disorders.
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Saldanha et al. (2021) studied Psychiatric Disorders. Database for Psychiatric Disorders was evaluated. A concept paper proposes setting up a digital database for psychiatric illnesses in Pimpri-Chinchwad, India, to facilitate community psychiatry, minimize attrition, and support research.
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