“Knowledge of hand cleanliness among medical students and nurses at tertiary healthcare centre: a cross-sectional study” by Bandana Mahanta, DK Das, Pollov Borah, Putul Mahanta, and Malamoni Dutta, is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Antonio Ventriglio, MD, PhD joins the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) as an editorial board member. Based in Foggia, Italy, Dr. Ventriglio is a Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at “Riuniti” Hospital in Foggia, Italy as well as Professor of Psychopharmacology and Social Psychiatry at School of Psychiatry in Foggia, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia. He has been Research Fellow at Department of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; completed two PhD programmes on medical, clinical, and experimental sciences at University of Foggia. He is currently member of Italian Society of Psychiatry, Italian Society for Social Psychiatry, and honorary member of World Psychiatry Association. Dr. Ventriglio is editor for letters for International Journal of Social Psychiatry and is in editorial board of International Review of Psychiatry, Current Drug Research Review, and Frontiers in Psychiatry e Neurosciences. Antonio also is editor of books for the Oxford University Press and Springer Nature.

“Knowledge and attitude towards mental illness of key informants and general population: a comparative study” by Dilip Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Amool Ranjan Singh, and Samrat Singh Bhandari, and published in the January-June 2012, Volume 3 Issue 1 of Dysphrenia, renamed the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed (PMID: 32905487).

“Knowledge and attitude towards mental illness of key informants and general population: a comparative study” by Dilip Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Amool Ranjan Singh, and Samrat Singh Bhandari, and published in the January-June 2012, Volume 3 Issue 1 of Dysphrenia, renamed the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed Central (PMCID: PMC7470139).

“Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges and game plan” by Bemma Konthoujam is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

The articles of the current issue (July-December 2020, Volume 11 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) are now available in IndianJournals.com with digital object identifier (DOI).

“Nosophobia, hypochondriasis, and willingness of people to seek healthcare amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Calabar Metropolis of Cross River State, Nigeria” by Nta Obono Okoi and John John Etim is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Rijusmita Sarma, the Editorial Assistant of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) wrote, “Let’s not stain our hearts – with stigma” in The Sentinel.

“A brief summary of human molecular genetic techniques for clinical psychiatrists” by Chandra Bhushan Rai, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Smita N Deshpande, and BK Thelma is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Beyond broken bones and blood” by Rijusmita Sarma, the Editorial Assistant of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is published in The Sentinel.