Articles on Mental Health

  1. The following article talks about mental heath status and issues in India and the Mental Health Policy (2014)
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  2. This article provides a brief summary of WHO’s idea of Mental health in India. It discusses the stats regarding the suicide rates, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) etc., and offers various suggestions on how to improve the status of mental health in our country.
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  3. This article talks about the factors that contribute to the development, treatment and prevention of mental disorders in India. Furthermore, it talks about mental health illnesses and interventions to deal with the same.
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  4. The following paper published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry talks about mental health awareness in India and the roadmap to the same. The road map to mental health focuses majorly on:
    • Conventional Media
    • Government Programs
    • Educational system
    • Industry
    • Social media and cellphones
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  5. UNICEF report spotlights the mental health impact of COVID-19 on children and young people. In a UNICEF survey across 21 countries, only 41 percent of young people in India said that it is good to seek support for mental health problems, compared to an average of 83 percent for 21 countries.
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  6. The article talks about the mental health epidemic in India i.e depression and its prevalence rates in different parts of India
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  7. The following article by WHO discusses how to keep oneself mentally healthy at home, during the time of a pandemic. As opposed to talking about an illness or a problem, this article focuses on positive psychology and how to stay balanced at such an unpreductble time.
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  8. This article talks about How do you take mental health conversations to rural India and the availability, accessibility and accessibility of Mental healthbin rural India.
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  9. The article is named- Mental healthcare for all: Leaving no one behind. It talks about mental health in the country with a special emphasis on Marginalized communities.
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  10. Community mental health in India. It talks about the accessibility of mental health services to people in India.
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  11. The following paper on the psychological impact of the covid-19 pandemic was published in the Indian Journal of psychiatry. It talks about mental health and have assessed people using a number of scales like: the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale, and perceived stress scale.
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  12. The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on Mental Health of Children
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  13. Mental health implications of COVID-19 pandemic and its response in India
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  14. Pandemic anxiety in Covid-19
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