Sujita Kumar Kar

King George's Medical University | CSM · Department of Psychiatry

Exposure to pornography is not an uncommon and unusual phenomenon in the digital era, with teens being no exception. Exposure to pornography among teens may happen accidentally, out of curiosity, or intentionally to derive sexual excitement. Many individuals exposed to pornography may later develop pornography addiction. Most parents who are aware...

On November 21, 2022, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India, published the National Suicide Prevention Strategy (NSPS) of India. This document, which is now in the public domain, seeks to reduce suicide-related mortality by 10% by 2030, with reference to 2020 (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, 2022). Not...

Background: There is a dearth of longitudinal research that measures the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of resident doctors. Aim: This study aimed to estimate depression, anxiety, stress, burnout, and sleep disturbances (insomnia and nightmares) among resident doctors after COVID-19 duty. The study was a prospective longitudinal stu...

Research on Panic Buying Behavior: What Are the Challenges Faced by Researchers? abstract, or keywords only yielded 62 results till date (Mid-February 2021). Among the 62 search results, 48 studies were done in the year 2020 and early 2021 only, implying that most of the studies were chiefly triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussions are m...

Neuromodulation is increasingly being used in the management of the bipolar disorder. Moving beyond electroconvulsive therapy, research evidence on the use of neuromodulation techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, magnetic seizure therapy and deep brain stimulation in...

Background Drug-induced movement disorders (DIMDs) form an important subgroup of secondary movement disorders, which despite conferring a significant iatrogenic burden, tend to be under-recognized and inappropriately managed. Objective We aimed to look into phenomenology, predictors of reversibility, and its impact on the quality of life of DIMD p...

In recent years the importance of Smart Healthcare cannot be overstated. The current work proposed to expand the state-of-art of smart healthcare in integrating solutions for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Identification of OCD from oxidative stress biomarkers (OSBs) using machine learning is an important development in the study of OCD. Howe...

Background Breast cancer (BC) diagnosis and treatment can affect women both physically and psychologically. Women with BC undergo various painful and debilitating therapies as well as emotional trauma. Additionally, treatment modalities can bring about multiple changes, causing distress and alteration in one's appearance. This study aimed to assess...

Background Compulsive buying behavior or pathological buying is increasingly being recognized as a psychiatric disorder, and various psychosocial factors have been proposed to contribute to this problem. This study aimed to identify the association between compulsive buying behavior, stress, anxiety, depression, and impulsivity. Methods This cross...

Schizophrenia is a chronic illness that causes significant impairment in various areas of life. Patients with schizophrenia typically develop symptoms in their second to third decades of life and have a waxing-waning course. The combination of genetics and the environment is essential in developing schizophrenia. Despite proper treatment trials, ma...

Suicide in the geriatric population is a significant problem. Increasing age, living alone, having a psychiatric illness and medical comorbidities have been identified as risk factors for suicide among the elderly population. The elderly population in South East Asia is rapidly growing and the number of elderly people with mental illness and/or med...

Background Dhat syndrome, a clinical condition related to semen loss in urine often found among males in India, has rarely been described as a separate clinical condition in females. Women with the syndrome complain of passing vaginal discharge and can be excessively concerned and preoccupied with it, often attributing various physical symptoms to...

Objective Priming stimulation, which involves high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) followed by low-frequency, has been shown to enhance neural response and is one of the novel paradigms found beneficial in adult patients with depression and has not been studied in late-life depression (LLD). This study aims to compare...

Nutrition plays a variety of physiological roles in the maintenance of mental health, with some potential pathological participations as well. Indeed, suboptimal and anormal nutrition may be implicated in the underlying pathology of mental health disorders and may interfere with treatment response and recovery. Nutrient deficiency is widespread thr...

Background: Panic buying has been reported during a period of crisis when people buy an extra amount of essential commodities and hoard them anticipating their future utility. As a newer entity, a bibliometric analysis would reveal the research gaps for further studies. We aimed to do a bibliometric analysis of researches published on panic buying...

Suicide is a serious public mental health challenge. News of suicide, easily catches the attention of media. Media often reports suicide in a dramatizing fashion. Often, details of suicide steps, photos of suicide location and victim, factors possibly attributing to suicide are portrayed by media at the same time little emphasis is given to suicide...

This presentation is about the role of rTMS in OCD (including recent evidence and future directions).

Suicide is a global mental health challenge and suicides frequently get a wide media coverage. The media reporting of suicide and subsequent suicides are closely associated. Studies reveal country wise variations in the quality of media reporting. We aimed to do a bibliometric analysis of the published research on media reporting of suicide. All th...

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on the mental health and is associated with high suicidal behavior. This study is an effort to scrutinize suicidal behavior among general population in two countries, namely India and Nigeria. METHODS: This was an online survey conducted on 536 adult participants (272 from India and 264 fro...

Newspapers play an important role in influencing those at risk for suicidal ideation. There are reporting guidelines laid out for media professionals regarding suicide reporting. There is limited evidence, however, to understand and compare reporting between English and vernacular newspapers circulated in India and understand their reporting patter...

A brief overview of clinical trials for understanding of the researchers

Panic buying usually happens before and during any environmental crisis or an adverse environmental stimulus at least such as a flood, sudden policy change (economic sanction), COVID-19 pandemic, or war. Mass behaviour is shaped by the disseminated message from various sources of mass media including social media platforms. Although the credibility...

Disasters can affect people on a local, regional, and global scale. The majority of calamities, as well as their consequences on human behavior, are unavoidable. Disasters can have a devastating influence on consumer behavior, sometimes to the point of disrupting social integrity. During crisis scenarios (such as the lockdown period of the COVID-19...

The healthcare system in India, like other Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) face the challenge of provid- ing equitable and quality health services to its popula- tion. The figures from rural and tribal areas of the nation show considerable improvement in the infra- structure and manpower over past 15 years. However, there is still a huge shorta...

Background: Home and family remains the primary social influence, an arena for fostering positive and negative influences in an adolescent’s life. The environment at home occupies a significant position. Objectives were to assess the perception of the home environment, level of anxiety and depression and to study the relationship between the two am...

Physical adaptation is a process by which an organism attempts to adjust successfully with the changes happening in the environment continuously. Organisms adapting effectively in this process have an advantage of long survivability. During the process of evolution, several physical (structural) changes happened in humans that gives them a reproduc...

December 2022 issue of Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality & Culture is on Adolescence & Sexuality. Kindly send your articles by 30th September 2022.

Background Incarcerated prisoners represent a high-risk group for suicide. Little is known about the quality of media reporting of suicide in this group. Methodology Online media reports discussing suicide among prisoners in India were identified by searching three internet search engines and newspaper websites. All such reports between January 20...

Objective: Mass media has diverse effects on suicidal behaviour and has a significant impact on framing prevention strategies for the general population. However, the quality of news reporting of suicide has not been assessed in Iran adequately specially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 pandemic had adversely affected the services of the National Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination Programme, resulting in psychological distress among pulmonary tuberculosis patients (PTB). This cross-sectional, hospital-based study included 361 PTB patients. Three pre-defined questionnaires were used for the analysis, a questionnaire to evaluate...

Background Dhat syndrome (DS) is considered a culture-bound syndrome of South East Asia. It is often associated with multiple sexual and psychiatric comorbidities. We aimed to assess the quality of life (QoL) and disability in patients of DS with and without comorbidity. Methods This cross-sectional study included 117 patients with DS and 117 matc...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide range of negative consequences for higher education students. We explored the generalizability of the control-value theory of achievement emotions for e-learning, focusing on their antecedents. We involved 17019 higher education students from 13 countries, who completed an online survey during th...

Racism is not an uncommon phenomenon in sports, with cricket being no exception to it. Cricket is played in many countries, with its dominance in South East Asia, Europe, Australia, and Africa. Racist remarks in cricket hit media headlines and ignite agitations among the cricket fans. This article discusses the psychological impact of racism associ...

Background Estimates of depression in suicidal behavior in South Asia would help to formulate suicide prevention strategies in the region that hasn't been assessed yet. Objectives We aimed to systematically assess the prevalence of depression in fatal and non-fatal attempts of suicide in eight South Asian countries. Methods We searched Medline, E...

An emergence of mental health issues among the general population has been reported during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This study aimed to estimate COVID‐19 awareness, attitude, and perceived anxiety among the Iranian people. This is a cross‐sectional web‐based survey done on the community population of Iran. The sample population was recruited through...

Healthy longevity is predicted to provide an economic advantage; nevertheless, the deterioration of an ageing population's health is expected to raise the economic burden. As a result, the effort should be made to have a healthy lifespan to boost the economy. Positive lifestyle measures, such as adequately addressing the elderly's lifestyle-related...