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Vinod Kumar Sinha

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PubMed2006

Effectiveness of continuing nursing education program in child psychiatry.

PROBLEM: Program evaluation of the effectiveness of two continuing nursing education programs (CNE) in child psychiatry in India. METHODS: Pre- and postevaluation of a total of 51 nurses attending a 10-day CNE program, using a 30-item (six-domain) questionnaire according to CNE topics in child psychiatry. FINDINGS: The CNE program resulted in significant increase in the total scores as well as scores in several sub-domains in the field of child psychiatry. CONCLUSIONS: In a country that does not offer degree programs that integrate psychiatric nursing into the curriculum, CNE programs are an important educational option for nurses. The CNE program offered in this study, comprising lectures, discussion, interactive sessions, and case demonstrations totaling 60 hr across 10 days, was effective in improving the level of knowledge of nurses. It was equally beneficial for senior as well as less experienced nurses.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

Incidence of catatonia in children and adolescents in a paediatric psychiatric clinic.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence and phenomenology of catatonia in a child and adolescent population. METHOD: Children and adolescents who had attended a paediatric psychiatric outpatient clinic between April and July 2001 were examined for catatonic signs with a formal catatonia rating scale, and patients who had at least two catatonic signs were included. RESULTS: Eleven patients met the criteria (5.5% of the entire sample and 17.7% of the patients with affective and nonaffective psychotic disorder); of them eight had an affective disorder and three a nonaffective disorder. The mean catatonic scores were significantly high for males and patients with mental retardation. CONCLUSION: This study shows that catatonia occurs in children and adolescents. Further studies are essential to clarify the distribution of catatonia across various diagnoses and the outcome of paediatric catatonia.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2002

What leads to frequent re-hospitalisation when community care is not well developed?

BACKGROUND: Treatment programmes are largely hospital based in developing countries and yet research on factors predicting frequent re-hospitalisation remains scarce from them. This cross-sectional study of factors predictive of frequent re-hospitalisation explored whether factors reported from developed countries could apply to India. METHODS: Information was collected on four dimensions (socio-demographic, socio-cultural, treatment and illness variables) from 90 patients readmitted to a teaching psychiatric institute in India over a 3 month period. Patients were grouped into Frequently Re-hospitalised (FR) with three or more admissions to hospital in the last 18 months and Less Frequently Re-hospitalised (LFR) with two or fewer admissions in the last 18 months. RESULTS: Support available for treatment, days spent in hospital and cost of treatment had a significant effect on whether the patient was more frequently hospitalised. The place of domicile tended to have an effect on the frequency of hospitalisation. CONCLUSIONS: Factors predictive of frequent re-hospitalisation reported in this study differed from those in developed countries. The above variables identify high users of inpatient beds who may be targeted for specific interventions to reduce re-hospitalisation rates.

Adolescent↗