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View article: Burden of care and quality of life in caregivers of patients presenting in manic episode of bipolar affective disorder
Burden of care and quality of life in caregivers of patients presenting in manic episode of bipolar affective disorder Open
Background: Bipolar affective disorder is a chronic mood disorder characterized by manic, depressive, hypomanic, or mixed episodes, often leading to considerable caregiver burden. This study assesses the burden of care and quality of life …
View article: Don't Believe Everything You Read: Enhancing Summarization Interpretability through Automatic Identification of Hallucinations in Large Language Models
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Enhancing Summarization Interpretability through Automatic Identification of Hallucinations in Large Language Models Open
Large Language Models (LLMs) are adept at text manipulation -- tasks such as machine translation and text summarization. However, these models can also be prone to hallucination, which can be detrimental to the faithfulness of any answers …
View article: Koro Like Syndrome with Genital Retraction Fear in Two Nepalese Men: A Case Series
Koro Like Syndrome with Genital Retraction Fear in Two Nepalese Men: A Case Series Open
Koro is a culture bound syndrome exclusive to the South Chinese and Malay Archipelago, although similar cases have been reported outside its boundaries. The hallmark of the classic koro syndrome entails grave fear of penile shrinkage along…
View article: Corona virus fear among health workers during the early phase of pandemic response in Nepal: A web-based cross-sectional study
Corona virus fear among health workers during the early phase of pandemic response in Nepal: A web-based cross-sectional study Open
Health workers involved in the COVID-19 response might be at risk of developing fear and psychological distress. The study aimed to identify factors associated with COVID-19 fear among health workers in Nepal during the early phase of the …
View article: Psychological Distress Among General Adult Population Of Kathmandu Valley
Psychological Distress Among General Adult Population Of Kathmandu Valley Open
Introduction: A large proportion of the population in the community with psychological distress goes unnoticed. This study was done to assess the psychological distress among adult population of urban area of the Kathmandu Valley.
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View article: Corona virus fear among health workers during the early phase of pandemic response in Nepal: a web-based cross-sectional study
Corona virus fear among health workers during the early phase of pandemic response in Nepal: a web-based cross-sectional study Open
Background Health workers involved in COVID-19 response might be at risk of developing fear and psychological distress. This study aimed to identify factors associated with COVID-19 fear among health workers in Nepal during the early phase…
View article: Mental health impacts among health workers during COVID-19 in a low resource setting: a cross-sectional survey from Nepal
Mental health impacts among health workers during COVID-19 in a low resource setting: a cross-sectional survey from Nepal Open
Background: Health care workers exposed to COVID-19 might be at increased risk of developing mental health problems. The study aimed to identify factors associated with anxiety, depression and insomnia among health workers involved in COVI…
View article: Mental health impacts among health workers during COVID-19 in a low resource setting: a cross-sectional survey from Nepal
Mental health impacts among health workers during COVID-19 in a low resource setting: a cross-sectional survey from Nepal Open
Background: Health care workers exposed to COVID-19 might be at risk of developing mental health problems. The study aimed to identify factors associated with anxiety, depression and insomnia among health workers involved in COVID-19 respo…
View article: Prevalence of study related anxiety among medical students: a study from a medical college in central Nepal
Prevalence of study related anxiety among medical students: a study from a medical college in central Nepal Open
Introduction: Medical education can lead to anxiety and depression in medical students which may have negative academic and professional consequences on them. The objective of this study was to find out the prevalence of study related anxi…
View article: Mental Disorders in Ethnic Community: A Prevalence Study from Thakali Community of Nepal
Mental Disorders in Ethnic Community: A Prevalence Study from Thakali Community of Nepal Open
Despite many shortcomings, this study has provided an estimate of the prevalence and pattern of mental disorders among an indigenous Nepalese community. We emphasize the need of validation of tools for Nepal and estimation of prevalence at…
View article: Study of Delirium on Psychiatric Referrals at Helping Hands Community Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
Study of Delirium on Psychiatric Referrals at Helping Hands Community Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal Open
Background and Objectives: Delirium is one of the most important neuro-psychiatric disorders in Consultation liaison psychiatry. There is a dearth of studies in this subject in Nepalese context. The objective of this study was to find out …
View article: A three-month longitudinal study for diagnostic stability of acute and transient psychotic disorder
A three-month longitudinal study for diagnostic stability of acute and transient psychotic disorder Open
Background: The diagnostic category of “acute and transient psychotic disorders” (ATPD) comprises of psychotic disorders with features of acute onset (within 2 weeks), presence of typical syndromes that are either polymorphic or schizophre…