Table 2 Three-year outcome of individual projects

A multicentric randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of screening and a brief nurse-delivered intervention for depression in pregnancy (BIND-P)

JRFs: 12

Nurses: 75

Postgraduates (psychiatry and allied): 18

Data entry operators: 1

Nursing students: 143

Publications: 6

Presentations: 15

Awards: 8

Manuals: 4

New research grants: 2

• Developed a proof-of-concept model for perinatal depression

• Intervention guide and training manual in three Indian languages (Marathi, Hindi, Kannada)

• Findings have NMHP policy implications such as incorporating mandatory depression screening for perinatal women, delivery of intervention through nonspecialist health workers in primary care settings

• Study findings were already presented to the programme coordinator of the District Mental Health Programme of Dakshina Kannada (Karnataka)

• Department of public health (Maharashtra) to implement the intervention

Alcohol use among adolescent tribals in three corners of India: prevalence and pilot interventional studies

JRFs and project staff: 12

Adolescents trained in LSEM: 25

Publications: 1

Presentations: 1

• Development of preventive and supportive mental healthcare model for tribal youth

A multicentric randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of telephone-based psychosocial interventions on future suicide risk in suicide attempters (TOPS)

JRFs: 9

Data entry operators: 1

PhD scholars: 1

Publications: 4

Presentations: 12

Awards: 1

Manuals: 1

New research grants: 4

• Development of telephone-based interventions and model of care to prevent suicide in high-risk individuals

• Training of nonspecialist mental health workers in delivery of psychosocial interventions to prevent suicide in high-risk individuals

A multicentric randomized controlled trial comparing effectiveness of fluoxetine and mindfulness in primary care: protocol for DIAbetes Mellitus ANd Depression (DIAMAND) study

JRFs: 12

Primary healthcare professionals: 49

Publications: 3

Presentations: 1

Awards: 2

• Development of a brief manual for primary healthcare physicians to detect and manage depression in primary care settings (Hindi, English)

• Development of training module for primary healthcare workers in identifying and treating depression in primary care settings

• Development of a virtual protocol during the COVID-19 pandemic

Implementation and evaluation of the NIMHANS-ECHO blended training programme for the DMHP workforce in a rural South Indian district of Karnataka State (NIMHANS-ECHO-1)

JRFs: 4

ANM: 6

ASHAs: 86

Medical officers: 8

Multipurpose health workers: 3

Publications: 3

Presentations: 5

• Establishing the feasibility of a digital technology-based model for training of grassroots health workers in mental health

• Model for screening for mental illness by grassroots-level health workers

• Development of a mental health screening and counselling tool for field-level workers of India (MERIT)

Effectiveness of addition of virtual NIMHANS ECHO tele-mentoring model for skilled capacity-building in providing quality care in alcohol use disorders (AUDs) by existing staffs of the DMHP districts of Karnataka (NIMHANS-ECHO-2)

JRFs: 2

Publications: 1

Presentations: 2

• Establishing the feasibility of a tele-mentoring model for training DMHP staff for AUDs

• Model for improving the quality of care for AUDs

Community-based intervention on mental health in Kashmir

JRFs: 2

SRFs: 1

Community health workers: 30

Publications: 3

Presentations: 3

New research grants: 1

• Model for community-based awareness, screening and intervention for mental illness

• Training of the community health workers for the sustainable intervention at the community level

Effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation delivered by ASHAs for persons with severe mental illness in a rural community in Karnataka: a randomized controlled comparison with specialist-delivered care

JRFs: 1

ASHAs: 101

Publications: 5

Presentations: 3

Awards: 1

• Development of cost-effective, up-scalable and replicable community-based rehabilitation for persons with severe mental illness through ASHA workers in resource-poor settings

Development and validation of the screening version of the Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism

JRFs: 4

Publications: 2

Presentations: 1

New research grants: 1

• Development of screening version of the Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism

Psychological intervention by videoconference for vulnerable family members of farmers who have committed suicide

JRFs: 2

Publications: 1

Presentations: 1

• Model for delivery of psychosocial intervention for vulnerable family members using videoconferencing

The outcome of services at the community extension clinics for patients with common mental disorders (CMDs): a client-centred approach

JRFs: 2

Publications: 2

Presentations: 1

• Development of community-based services for patients with CMDs

Development of a community-level module for physical illnesses in patients with psychiatric illness

JRFs: 2

Publications: 1

Presentations: 1

• Delivery of community-level intervention for physical illnesses in patients with psychiatric illness

Evaluation of District Mental Health Programme (DMHP) psychiatric services to the severely mentally ill in their old age

ASHAs: 1310

JRFs: 6

Publications: 1

Presentations: 1

• Screening for elderly patients with severe mental illness (SMI)

• Development of community-based tool to identify elderly patients with SMI and interventions to improve the access to care under DMHP. The service and barriers to the access of care among the elderly patients with SMI were assessed from a sample of 917 participants

• A tool was developed which would be helpful for NMHP to quickly identify the elderly SMI from communities

• An intervention programme is being developed that can be integrated with DMHP, based on the findings of the SENIOR (Support Systems Evaluation of Neuropsychiatric Illness in Old age) project