Background: Individuals associated with service providing and decision-taking are prone for stress leading to burnout. Aim: The aim of this study is to find out the details of burnout among Psychiatrists in India. Materials and Methods: Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) with structured biodata sheet was sent to the representative sample of psychiatrists by e-mail. Basic statistical analysis was done to find out prevalence, analyze response pattern, and differences between those with and without burnout. Results: The number of psychiatrists that responded to survey was 110–81 (74%) male and 29 (26%) female. The number of burnout cases in one or other spheres was 51 in 35 psychiatrists accounting for the prevalence of 46%. 32% of psychiatrists have burnout. Four psychiatrists have burnout in all three dimensions, nine in two dimensions, and 22 in one dimension. Personal burnout topped in the three dimensions (63%) followed by work burnout (24%). Patient burnout was least at 14%. Conclusions: Burnout, though not very high, is to be taken seriously by Indian psychiatrists and protective and preventive measures are in order.

Background: There is an increasing need for cost computation of every aspect of human behavior for planning. Objective: This objective of the study was to compute the cost of suicide in India in 2015. Materials and Methods: Official data on suicides and life expectancy in 2015 formed the basis for computation of years of presumed life lost and total years of life lived (TYLL). Market rate and official estimates of various expenditures – pre- and post-suicide –formed the basis for loss and gain computation. The difference between income and expenditure formed the total cost. Results: A total of 133,623 persons committed suicide in 2015. They lost 4,349,158 years in total while living for slightly more period of 4,777,293 years. Postsuicide, the expenses were 152,233.8 trillion with a saving of 29,200 trillion. During the lifetime they lived, these people generated an income of 1,672,198 trillion and cost 320739.3 trillion. The net cost of suicide was ' 149,313.9 trillion. Conclusions: Although suicide cannot be prevented completely, much monetary loss can be minimized with adequate preventive tailor-made strategies.

only in the West, are now legally and An analysis of patients attending a general hospital psychiatry unit in 1989 and 1999 revealed various differences. The frame of the samplesex, age distribution. marital status, residence and attitude towards 'family planning remained the same. The important changes seen include earlier psychiatric treatment outside before index consultation, chronic nature of cases and good follow-up in the 1999 sample. The changes seen were in tune with the far reaching changes that have taken place in the 90% in the environs.

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Objective: To find out expenditure incurred on Faith healing (FH) and differences between the patients resorting to and other (FH & NFH) psychiatry patients in a predominantly rural area. Method: consecutive private patients in a year were assessed for the amount spent on FH, poverty, residence, age, literacy, caste, diagnosis, FHO of mental illness and suicides. Apart from simple analysis, the data collected was subjected to inferential statistics like Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and MANOVA. Results: 70% of patients resorted to FH spending an average of Rs5,241/-. on it. Poverty was predominant (70%) in FH. Most of the FH patients were from rural background (60%) and relatively young. Literacy was on par with NFH (78%). Padmasalis and cases of psychoses were more in FH. FH group has less family history of mental illness and suicides (26%). Conclusions: Faith Healing is not just an act1 occurrence and there is significant difference between faith and non-faith healing groups.