“Mental health professionals as ‘silent frontline healthcare workers’: perspectives from three South Asian countries” by Sheikh Shoib, Anoop Krishna Gupta, Waleed Ahmad, Shijo John Joseph, and Samrat Singh Bhandari is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Pattern of internet use, anxiety, and depression among professional students of Tripura, India: an analysis” by Santanu Ghosh and Anjana Bhattacharjee is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

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, titled “Physical illnesses in psychiatric patients” discusses the original article, “Physical illnesses among psychiatric inpatients in a tertiary care setup” by Bharat Udey and Vijay Niranjan, published in the January-June 2020, Volume 11 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.

“Assessing burden and its determinants in caregivers of chronic kidney disease patients undergoing haemodialysis” by Shijo John Joseph, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Sanjiba Dutta, Dheeraj Khatri, and Apoorva Upadhyay is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Submission details

This section of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in two issues per year would contain maximum of five articles only per issue, very limited and restricted to quality of the work. This would include the following types of submissions:

1. A case report or case series by residents/case conference by resident

2. Art and psychiatry section

3. Innovative ideas in mental healthcare by residents

4. Academic discussion by a senior teacher/professor/senior resident

5. Miscellaneous section

Kindly note that original research etc. can be part of the normal submissions, not here.

Submissions are to be made to Shijo John Joseph, MD, Section Editor, The Resident’s Agora, Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) at shijojj90@gmail.com and cc to ojpaas@yahoo.com

In the fifth event of the webinar series, “Global Psychiatry: A LAMIC Perspective” to be held on December 4, 2020, Prof. (Dr.) Russell Franco D’Souza, MD, will speak on ‘Embitterment and Post Traumatic Embitterment Disorder and Productivity’. Prof. (Dr.) Russell is the Executive Director and Dean, Organizational Psychological Medicine, International Institute of Organisational Psychological Medicine, Australia: USA: UK. The opening remarks will be given by Kailash Karthik N, IAS, Deputy Commisioner, Kamrup (R), State of Assam, Republic of India. The session will be moderated by Uddip Talukdar, MD, Executive Editor of Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (OJPAS). The webinar series is an initiative of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), as part of MONON: Assam Cares (https://www.ojpas.com/ojpas-2020-07-27-fulltext.html), in collaboration with ECHO India. Zoom Link: https://spark.echoindia.in/jr/sess_3n-W0MpYXw/

The fortnightly Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), titled “Loneliness, society, and the internet” in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune discusses the original article, “Loneliness, social anxiety, social support, and internet addiction among postgraduate college students” by Abhijeet Singh, CRJ Khess, Mathew KJ, Arif Ali, and Nilesh Maruti Gujar, and published in the January-June 2020, Volume 11 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.

“Health outcomes: a study within undergraduate professional health students” by Sinku Kumar Singh is the new Advance Online Publication (AOP) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Profile of distress callers and service utilisation of tele-counselling among the population of Assam, India: an exploratory study during COVID-19” by Mythili Hazarika, Bornali Das, Shyamanta Das, Atanu Baruah, Nivedita Sharma, Chandamita Barua, Jayashree Das, Sandamita Choudhury, Dyuksha Hazarika, Phulen Sarma, and Samrat Singh Bhandari, from the forthcoming issue (January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed (PMID: 33163629).

“The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated risk factors during the initial stage among the general population in India” by Mythili Hazarika, Shyamanta Das, Samrat Singh Bhandari, and Phulen Sharma, from the forthcoming issue (January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed (PMID: 33123627).