Telepsychiatry in India - Where Do We Stand? A Comparative Review between Global and Indian Telepsychiatry Programs.
Telepsychiatry in India - Where Do We Stand? A Comparative Review between Global and Indian Telepsychiatry Programs.
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DOI：
10.4103/0253-7176.207329
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发表时间：
2017-05
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Nath K
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作者：
Naskar S;Victor R;Das H;Nath K
在印度，现有的精神卫生保健体系与需要立即从必要的精神卫生保健服务中获得关注的个人的高负担之间存在着巨大的差异。在一个有着深刻文化差异和领土限制的幅员辽阔的国家，提供公平的精神卫生保健仍然是一个主要的公共卫生问题。在这种黯淡的背景下，远程通信技术的出现提供了安慰和乐观，作为弥合客户和心理健康专业人员之间现有鸿沟的一种巧妙方法。使用廉价的设备和基本的技术诀窍，心灵感应将这门学科的范围从其卓越的城市中心扩展到遥远和雾霾笼罩的郊区和村庄。目前的学术努力打算对来自印度和其他国家的相关文献进行系统的审查。在实践中阐述了心灵感应的各种模式--包括异步模式和同步模式--重点是这一最新模式的有效性、可行性和可接受性。一项真诚的尝试记录了从21世纪初开始的印度心灵感应的非凡旅程，一直到现在的印度情景。法律和道德问题，以及几句谨慎和深思熟虑的话，已经简要地谈到了。已经提出了一套建议，希望心理健康领域的政策制定者和管理人员可以从中受益。预计心灵感应将在印度得到充分利用，以应对精神保健服务不足的严重威胁。
A wide discrepancy exists in India between the existing mental healthcare repertoire and the alarmingly high burden of individuals requiring immediate attention from requisite mental healthcare services. Providing equitable mental healthcare across a vast country characterized by profound cultural variations and territorial caveats has remained a major public health concern. Against this gloomy backdrop, the emergence of distant communications technology offers solace and optimism as an ingenious approach to bridge the existing gap between clients and mental health professionals. Using inexpensive equipment and basic technical knowhow, telepsychiatry expands the scope of the discipline to distant and hazy suburbs and villages from its urban centers of excellence. The current academic endeavor intends to perform a systematic review of relevant literature from India as well as from other countries. The various models of telepsychiatry-both asynchronous and synchronous models-in practice have been elaborated on with a focus on effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of this latest modality. A sincere attempt to chronicle the remarkable journey of telepsychiatry in India, beginning in the dawn of the 21st century to the current Indian scenario, has been made. The legal and ethical issues, along with a few words of caution and contemplation, have been briefly touched on. A set of recommendations has been provided with the hope that policy makers and administrators in the domain of mental health may benefit from them. It is anticipated that telepsychiatry will be adequately utilized in India to tackle the raging menace of inadequate mental healthcare services.