COVID-19 Pandemic and Stepped Care Model for Perinatal Depression in Rural India: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

TY - JOUR

T1 - COVID-19 Pandemic and Stepped Care Model for Perinatal Depression in Rural India

T2 - Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

AU - Ransing, Ramdas

AU - Kukreti, Prerna

AU - Mahadevaiah, Mahesh

AU - Raghuveer, Pracheth

AU - Karkal, Ravichandra

AU - Rana, Sumit

AU - Yadav, Reena

AU - Choudhary, Vinod

AU - Patil, Ishwar

AU - Sonkar, Suruchi

AU - Deshpande, Smita N.

N1 - Funding Information: This work is part of the BIND-P project (CTRI/2018/07/014836). The work was supported by the Indian Council Medical Research (ICMR) under capacity building projects for national mental health program, ICMR-NMHP. We would like to thank Dr Soumya Swaminathan (then Secretary, Dept. of Health Research, DHR), Dr Balram Bhargav, current Secretary DHR, Prof. V.L. Nimgaonkar, Dr Ravinder Singh, Dr Harpreet Singh, and Dr Krushnaji Kulkarni. We also thank the faculty of “Cross-Fertilized Research Training for New Investigators in India and Egypt” (D43 TW009114, HMSC File No. Indo-Foreign/35/M/2012-NCD-1, funded by Fogarty International Centre, NIH). We acknowledge the constant support and guidance of the National Coordinating Unit of ICMR for NMHP Projects. We are thankful to the Data Management Unit of ICMR for designing the database. We would like to thank the ANM staff (Sadhana Mohite, Shital Jadhav, Akashta Lingayat, Harshada Katkar, Sakshi Kodare) who coordinated data collection, training, and awareness sessions. The content of this manuscript is solely our responsibility and does not necessarily represent the official views of NIH or ICMR. NIH and ICMR had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Funding Information: This work is part of the BIND-P project (CTRI/2018/07/014836). The work was supported by the Indian Council Medical Research (ICMR) under capacity building projects for national mental health program, ICMR-NMHP. We would like to thank Dr Soumya Swaminathan (then Secretary, Dept. of Health Research, DHR), Dr Balram Bhargav, current Secretary DHR, Prof. V.L. Nimgaonkar, Dr Ravinder Singh, Dr Harpreet Singh, and Dr Krushnaji Kulkarni. We also thank the faculty of ?Cross-Fertilized Research Training for New Investigators in India and Egypt? (D43 TW009114, HMSC File No. Indo-Foreign/35/M/2012-NCD-1, funded by Fogarty International Centre, NIH). We acknowledge the constant support and guidance of the National Coordinating Unit of ICMR for NMHP Projects. We are thankful to the Data Management Unit of ICMR for designing the database. We would like to thank the ANM staff (Sadhana Mohite, Shital Jadhav, Akashta Lingayat, Harshada Katkar, Sakshi Kodare) who coordinated data collection, training, and awareness sessions. The content of this manuscript is solely our responsibility and does not necessarily represent the official views of NIH or ICMR. NIH and ICMR had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

PY - 2021/5

Y1 - 2021/5

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U2 - 10.1177/02537176211005017

DO - 10.1177/02537176211005017

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85105748337

SN - 0253-7176

VL - 43

SP - 246

EP - 251

JO - Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

JF - Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

IS - 3

ER -