Building capacity in primary mental healthcare supports effective task-shifting and sharing. Using technology in this context offers convenience and scalability.

Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) significantly impacts individuals following bereavement, particularly under conditions of sudden loss and disrupted mourning. Despite Hindi being one of the most widely spoken languages, no validated PGD assessment tool has existed for Hindi speakers. This study aimed to translate, adapt, and validate the Hindi version of the Prolonged Grief Disorder-13 Revised Scale (PG-13-R-H) among Hindi-speaking adults in the United States for screening and secondary monitoring.

Childhood trauma encompassing abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction is known to have enduring consequences on mental health, increasing susceptibility to depression, anxiety, and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) across the lifespan. Despite the rising focus on mental health in higher education, research on the prevalence and impact of childhood trauma within Indian undergraduate populations remains limited. This study examines the prevalence of childhood trauma and its association with mental health outcomes in undergraduates, framed within a lifespan developmental perspective.

Parenting styles shape behavioral outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet their influence in low-resource settings, such as India, remains underexplored. This study investigates how parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive) correlate with behavioral outcomes in children with ASD in India, and examines demographic influences.

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is associated with structural brain alterations. Buprenorphine maintenance treatment (BMT)'s impact on brain morphology remains underexplored. We examined the effect of BMT on surface-based morphometry (SBM) metrics- cortical thickness, sulcal depth, gyrification, and fractal dimension, in a longitudinal controlled design.

Somatic symptoms are frequent yet understudied manifestations of psychological distress among university students.

The increasing emotional distress among emerging adults highlights the importance of examining trauma-related factors, particularly complex trauma. This study investigates post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), and emotional distress, emphasizing the predictive role of disturbances in self-organization (DSO) as defined by the International Classification of Diseases (11th revision) (ICD-11).

There is a dearth of research on determining the optimal psychological intervention approach for symptom-specific management in schizophrenia. Hence, the current study aimed to assess the efficacy of therapeutic strategies in the management of various symptom subtypes, such as positive symptoms (PS) and negative symptoms (NS), hallucinations, and delusions in schizophrenia.

Training primary care doctors (PCDs) enables them to provide timely and effective treatment of psychiatric disorders in community settings. However, its impact on clinical outcomes remains relatively unexplored.

Training primary care doctors (PCDs) to manage common psychiatric conditions is seen as a key strategy to reduce the treatment gap, but its effects on their diagnostic and treatment skills remain largely unstudied.

Dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties in word recognition and decoding, remains underexplored in non-Western orthographies such as Persian. To estimate the prevalence of dyslexia and examine the relationship between decoding and reading comprehension among Persian-speaking elementary students.

Common mental disorders (CMDs) in older adults contribute to considerable disease burden and are associated with significant multimorbidity. With the increase in population ageing, the concerns related to multimorbidity are likely to increase. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach for CMDs. More recently, transdiagnostic approaches to address shared mechanisms across disorders have been studied. Despite a considerable body of literature on psychological interventions in higher-income countries, there is a notable lack of empirical studies examining the efficacy of transdiagnostic CBT (tCBT) in CMDs and older adults in India. In this study, we propose to test the effectiveness of a tCBT adapted for older adults, involving stakeholders.

Community-based studies on postpartum depression (PPD), a major maternal and public health issue, are scarce in India. We aimed to assess the proportion of postpartum mothers with depressive symptoms in the Malappuram district of Kerala and examine the correlates of PPD in this group.

This study evaluated intramuscular (IM) ketamine's efficacy and safety for rapid suicidal ideation reduction, addressing the critical need for fast-acting interventions in resource-limited settings where intravenous (IV) options are impractical.

Opioids can adversely affect sexual function by impacting the endocrine system, particularly the pituitary gland and sex hormones. While synthetic opioids have been well studied, little data exists on natural opium's impact on sexual functioning, especially in India, where it is considered an aphrodisiac. This study aims to evaluate sexual dysfunction and related factors among men who are dependent on natural opium.

This article presents a simple explanation of fixed-effect and random-effects models in meta-analysis. In summary, we use a fixed effect model when the studies to be pooled are largely similar in design, methods, and sample characteristics, and when we can consequently assume that the values of an outcome in these studies represent sample-related variations of a single true value in the population. We use a random effects model when studies are meaningfully dissimilar in their design, methods, and/or samples, and when we can consequently assume that the values of the outcome in these studies represent sample-related variations of true values in different populations; that is, there are many true values. These conceptual issues should guide an a priori decision to favor one model or the other; the choice should not be made after eyeballing the results of analysis. This article also explains when a fixed effect model should be chosen, how the choice of model affects study weights in a forest plot, and how the choice of model affects the pooled estimate, its precision, and its chance of being statistically significant. Other practical notes are also provided.

Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique increasingly recognized for its therapeutic potential in psychiatric disorders. Recent advances have enabled its administration in home settings, potentially increasing accessibility, reducing costs, and overcoming logistical barriers to in-clinic care. This scoping review systematically maps the preliminary evidence on home-based tES interventions for psychiatric disorders, while also assessing their feasibility, safety, and methodological trends.