Open AccessShort-term outcome of mothers with severe mental illness admitted to a mother baby unit
Author(s) -
Vishwas Yadawad,
Sundarnag Ganjekar,
Harish Thippeswamy,
Prabha S. Chandra,
Geetha Desai
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_1005_20
Subject(s) - brief psychiatric rating scale , medicine , postpartum psychosis , psychiatry , edinburgh postnatal depression scale , rating scale , global assessment of functioning , pediatrics , mental illness , bipolar disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , mental health , psychology , psychosis , anxiety , mood , depressive symptoms , developmental psychology
Mother baby psychiatry units (MBUs) are the expected standard of inpatient care internationally for postpartum mothers with severe mental illness (SMI) and favorable outcomes for mother infant dyads have been reported from these services. However, there are very few such units in low- and middle-income countries. The current study aimed to assess the short-term outcome of mothers in SMI admitted to an MBU in India.