IntroductionProfessional stress is a misfit between a person's skills and demands of the job. It has been found to be common among psychiatrists and affects their personal and professional life.ObjectivesTo rank order the factors and manifestations of professional stress among Indian psychiatrists.AimsTo determine the factors and manifestations associated with professional stress among Indian psychiatrists.MethodsA qualitative ranking type Delphi study was conducted at National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore. The Delphi team comprised of 43 randomly selected Indian psychiatrists with at least 10 years of clinical experience in psychiatry. Questionnaires were mailed & the replies were analyzed and a consolidated list was sent back to rank order them. Agreeability was assessed & the final list of factors and manifestations was shared with the experts.ResultsForty-eight percent of the experts completed all 3 stages of the study, 53% opined that age & gender were not a factor; however 58% & 44% opined that personality attributes & relationship status were significant factors contributing to professional stress (Table 1).ConclusionProfessional stress in Indian psychiatrists is largely secondary to increased workload and inadequate support system. System level changes, like increase in manpower and handling stigma regarding psychiatry, is required.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

AimsThriving on the pressure of “publish or perish” experienced by academicians, the industry of predatory publishers with dubious quality has mushroomed and gained their notoriety. The battle of uncovering predatory publishers, including Beall's list, has proven to be tough given the huge monetary gain generated by the predatory publishers. It may be difficult for an inexperienced junior researcher to identify those predatory publishers’ soliciting emails, which may disguise as a reputable journal's article-commissioning process. To date, there is a limited systematic approach to identify such emails. Hence, this research is aimed to describe the common features of soliciting emails from publishers which appeared to be predatory.MethodThis self-study involved reviewing the content of emails in the spam folder of authors, a team of junior researchers in psychiatry, for a month. Emails included in this study were soliciting emails relevant to publications and the following were reviewed: types of solicitation, sentences used, strategies used, and information available in the public domain of their webpages. Informative types of emails were excluded.ResultThe solicitation could include: 1) request for a manuscript to be published a journal article, 2) request for a thesis to be published as a book, 3) request to write for a book chapter, 4) invitation to be an editorial member or a reviewer with the offer of free publishing, 5) invitation to be a speaker for a conference, and 6) proofreading services. The publisher may cite a published article of the author from another journal, which was the source where they identified the author's email. Common strategies used for solicitation included: 1) promising a fast-tracked and guaranteed publication, 2) using compliments that appeared to be inappropriate, 3) repetitive emails, and 4) using argumentum ad passiones to induce guilt. The common features of the webpages of those publishers included: 1) open access publishing as the only option, 2) extensive list of indexing services excluding well-established indexing agencies, and 3) the publisher has a huge collection of journals in different disciplines.ConclusionIt is hoped that these findings will help junior researchers in psychiatry to stay vigilant to avoid falling into the trap of predatory publishers, which may result in financial loss and loss of work to plagiarism. Total eradication of those predatory soliciting emails is unlikely despite the advancement of spam filtering technology, which necessitates a more united effort from different stakeholders to come out with a probable solution.

AimsTo ensure that the PPE guidance is strictly adhered to.To ensure that patient care is not compromised.To help us in areas of need in order to educate the staff regarding the techniques of PPE and thus ensure patient and staff safety and care during the pandemic.MethodNovel coronavirus 2019 was first described in December 2019 in Wuhan in China. Since those initial few cases, it has rapidly proliferated to a global pandemic, putting an inordinate amount of strain on healthcare systems around the world. We believe that the technique of donning and doffing if followed as per PHE guidelines would be of help in both preventing the infection and improve the care and safety of both patients and staff.This Audit includes both In-patient and Out-patient units in Psychiatric services across North Wales. Data were collected from 19 units out of 39. We observed covertly 325 staff members belonging to various cadres. Apart from the Donning and Doffing techniques, we also observed the availability of designated areas for this purpose and the availability of PPE as well.Data collection was by junior and senior doctors from various sites of the mental health unit in North Wales. A proforma was provided, the standards were based on PHE guidelines.ResultIt was noted that just about 50% of the staff followed donning as per guidance. Amongst all three sites, the Central team showed a better adherence with 85% of them donning PPE correctly. whereas only 22% adhered to donning in the West team.Only 21% of them managed to doff PPE as per guidance amongst all 3 centres in North Wales.It was also noted that there are no designated areas to Don and Doff in outpatient units. Staff, in general, seem to not adhere to the guidance of utilising a mask, especially when within 2 meters distance of other staff.ConclusionWe will be presenting the Audit at the regional meeting. After discussion with the infection prevention control team and Health and safety lead, we intend to improvise the wards with designated areas for donning and doffing. Teaching sessions for the staff in all three sites, reminders in various areas of the community mental health units and inpatient units.We are hoping that these recommendations will help us in achieving our aim of health and safety during this pandemic.

AimsWith extensive evidence and track record on efficiency, third-wave psychotherapies, i.e. mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), have gained popularity in the United Kingdom (UK) as the mainstream tool for mental health and well-being. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of MBI training has shifted from physical meetings to online to improve access nationally. To date, there is limited data on the differences of online MBIs available in the UK. This web pages review is aimed to elucidate the available resources for online training on MBIs in the UK.MethodsGoogle Search engine was used to identify web pages providing MBI training in the UK from February 2021 to March 2021. The search words used were “mindfulness”, “acceptance commitment therapy”, “dialectical behaviour therapy”, “DBT”, “Compassion focused therapy”, “CFT”, “England”, “Northern Ireland”, “Scotland”, “Wales”, and “United Kingdom”. The search word “ACT” was omitted due to a high number of irrelevant search results. Inclusion criteria were any web page providing mindfulness training in the English language, based in the UK. Exclusion criteria were web pages that were not from the UK with limited information and the web page was not about the provision of mindfulness training. Given the high number of web pages appearing in the Google Search for each of the localities, further search was stopped when all ten web pages that appeared on a Google search page were all excluded.ResultsThe total number of web pages returned from searches was 23,030,000 of which were 13.1 million for England, 2.89 million for Scotland, 3.09 million for Wales, 2.18 million for Northern Ireland, and 1,770,000 were unspecified. Only 165 web pages offering MBI training were included. Among those, 57% were for the general public while 30% had information for both professionals and the public. The majority of them, i.e. 65% offered online training courses when only 25% of them offered both online and face-to-face training. There were 25% of web pages offering free basic courses for the public. There was a similar split between the group, individual and mixed training.ConclusionThere is a significant amount of MBI training resources available online for both public and professionals. One interesting finding is that a significant portion of them provide free basic training which is very encouraging and certainly has a positive impact on the accessibility of mindfulness education during the pandemic disruption.

IntroductionChildren of alcohol dependent individuals are affected by disturbed parent-child relationship and exhibit externalizing symptoms, arrhythmicity, negative mood and low persistence.ObjectivesTo assess the temperament and resilience of children of alcohol dependent individuals and to study their relationship with the father's severity and problems of alcohol intake.AimsTo assess the psychological profile of children of alcohol dependent individuals.MethodsCross-sectional study conducted in a tertiary care centre from January to August 2015. Severity of alcohol dependence in father and problems related to it was assessed using ‘short alcohol dependence data’ and ‘alcohol problems questionnaire’; the temperament and resilience of their children (n = 31) was assessed using ‘temperament measurement schedule’ and ‘strengths and difficulties questionnaire’ respectively.ResultsThe sample comprised of 48% boys and 52% girls with mean age (SD) of 9.32 (3.02) years. Eighty-one percent belonged to lower socioeconomic status. Their fathers’ mean age (SD) was 37.13(4.9) years and duration of alcohol dependence being 16.32 (5.7) years, average use/day being 19.19 (14.9) units with moderate (45.2%) to high (41.9%) dependence. Significant association was observed between severity of alcohol dependence and temperamental domain-threshold of responsiveness (χ2 = 17.272, P value = 0.002) (Fig. 1). The average units of alcohol consumed/day were a significant predictor for the presence of emotional problems in the child (OR = 30.12; 95%CI 1.33–677.86).ConclusionThere's a significant association between father's alcohol use and child's psychopathology which indicates the need for preventive and curative mental health measures.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.