Smartphone addiction
Titled, “Smartphone addiction”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, discusses the original article, “Study of smartphone addiction: prevalence, pattern of use, and personality dimensions among medical students from rural region of central India” by Prekshaa Jain, Sachin Ratan Gedam, and Pradeep S Patil, and published in the July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2 of OJPAS®.
Autism spectrum disorder
Dhrubajyoti Bhuyan, Prosenjit Ghosh, and Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) presented the symposium, “Evidence based interventions for autism spectrum disorder” in the 72nd Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS 2020) at Kolkata.
Assessment tools in child psychiatry
The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das presented, along with Prosenjit Ghosh and Simanta Talukdar, the symposium, “Assessment tools in child psychiatry for private practice: a critique”, chaired by G Prasad Rao and Parmod Kumar in the 72nd Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS 2020) at Kolkata.
Leaving against medical advice
Chayanika Choudhury from Gauhati Medical College Hospital, Guwahati presented her e-poster, titled “A study of the sociodemographic and clinical profile of patients leaving against medical advice”, co-authored by Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), in the 72nd Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS 2020) at Kolkata.
Mobile phone and sleep
Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discussed the original article, “Mobile phone use and its effect on quality of sleep in medical undergraduate students at a tertiary care hospital” by Arnav Kadian, Rakesh Mittal, and Mahesh Chander Gupta, and published in the July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2 of OJPAS®, in his fortnightly Mind Matters column, titled “Mobile phone and sleep” of Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune.
Self-stigma
The original article, “A cross-sectional study of self-stigma and discrimination among patients with depression” by Rohit Garg and Rajnish Raj, and published in the July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2 of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is covered in this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of OJPAS®, Shyamanta Das in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Self-stigma”.
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