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Reducing Treatment Delay For Early Intervention: Evaluation Of A Community Based Crisis Helpline, Amresh Srivastava
Reducing Treatment Delay For Early Intervention: Evaluation Of A Community Based Crisis Helpline, Amresh Srivastava
Amresh Srivastava
Background A limited number of studies have assessed the pathways to care of patients experiencing psychosis for the first time. Helpline/clinic programs may offer patients who are still functional but have potential for crisis an alternative that is free from judgment. Methods In this study we report on patient calling a round-the-clock crisis helpline for suicide prevention supported by psychiatric facilities in Mumbai, India. Chi-square and test of mean differences were used to compare outcomes between first-episode patients and those with a previous history. Results Within five years, the helpline received 15,169 calls. Of those callers, 2341 (15.4%) experienced suicidal …
Early Intervention Of Psychosis And Re! Ections For Programmes In India, Amresh Srivastava
Early Intervention Of Psychosis And Re! Ections For Programmes In India, Amresh Srivastava
Amresh Srivastava
Mental illness is perhaps the most common and most debilitating among non-communicable diseases. Schizophrenia, for example, normally occurs before the age of 25, affect the most productive years of life. The World Economic Forum graphically illustrates that mental illnesses will be a major contributor to the erosion of gross domestic product over the next 20 years. The developed world has established programs that have proven to be clinically and economically effective and sustainable.[1] Early intervention has played an important role in demonstrating that outcome can be improved if patients are treated in the early phase of illness. It is believed …
Suicide From A Global Perspective, Amresh Srivastava
Suicide From A Global Perspective, Amresh Srivastava
Amresh Srivastava
This book is in 5 volumes, Hard cover and e-book, with 110 Chapters and contributions from more than 30 Countries
Amresh Shrivastava (ed), Megan Kimbrell and David Lester Handbook of Suicide From Global Perspective
Preface by Professor N. Sartorius, MD, PhD
Suicide is the cause of death for nearly one million people a year. Death by suicide is often reported as being due to other causes to avoid stigmatization and other negative consequences of suicide for the family: it can therefore be assumed that the number of people who commit suicide is much higher than this number. Attempts of suicide …