Background: The burden of illness resulting from psychiatric and behavioral disorders is
enormous; although, it remains grossly under represented by conventional public health …

Background: Drug use studies are beneficial in clinical practice for rational prescribing of
drugs and helpful for minimizing the medication errors. Aims and Objectives: The present …

Background: A mental disorder or psychiatry disorder is a behavioural or mental pattern that
causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Schizophrenia is one of …

Background: Prescription auditing studies are a part of drug utilization studies, are beneficial
in clinical practice for rational prescribing of drugs and helpful for minimizing the medication …

Background: Drug utilization studies are beneficial in clinical practice for rational
prescribing, as there is continuous proliferation of new drugs and the increasing recognition …

Background: Mental disorders are now widely recognized as a major contributor to the
global burden of disease. The drug use in psychiatric illness is a complex process and …

Background: Geriatrics tend to be the largest consumers of prescribed drugs exposing them
to various drug interactions and adverse drug reactions. Present study is an attempt to …

Background: Due to increasing burden of psychiatric illnesses, it is essential to study the
psychotropic drug utilization pattern in actual clinical practice. The objective of the study was …

Background: Psychopharmacology is a rapidly growing field, in which the number of patients
is continuously increasing. Newly introduced drugs are projected as the better alternative to …

BACKGROUND: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the modern psychiatric armamentarium
in the hands of psychiatrists for the treatment for severe and treatment-resistant depression …