Debasish Basu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6814923 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Debasish Basu |
| NOMBRES | Debasish |
| APELLIDO | Basu |
| FIRMA | BASU D |
| AFILIACIONES | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3643-5984 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Implementing integrated mental health and substance use disorder services in Indian primary care
Integrating mental health & substance use disorders (MSUDs) care into other NCDs remains a priority for bridging India’s wide treatment gap. While national programs such as District Mental Health Programme and Ayushman Bharat have laid foundational pathways, translating policy into everyday practice continues to face substantial challenges. This study explored how mental health services are being implemented across seven Indian states, using the …
Efficacy of Family-based Interventions in Addressing Substance Use Disorders
Effectiveness of Training Non‐Specialist Health Workers for the Management of Substance Use Disorders
Acceptability and Feasibility of a Social Contact Based Intervention for Reduction of Public Stigma Against Persons With Opioid Use Disorder
Background and Aim: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a major public health issue, exacerbated by public stigma that hinders treatment-seeking and social integration. This study aimed to adapt and validate a social-contact-based intervention to reduce public stigma against individuals with OUD in India, ensuring cultural relevance and feasibility. Methods: The study followed a two-phase approach: adaptation and validation using the ADAPT framework and…
Patterns of alcohol use and response to digital brief interventions in college students
Underage drinking represents three latent classes. Digital interventions can effectively reduce alcohol use across all classes of underage college problem drinkers
Acceptability and feasibility of a brief intervention to enhance resilience among young people and their families in India and Kenya
Enhancing resilience is one way to prevent future mental illnesses and encourage recovery in the face of adversity. To develop and test the acceptability and feasibility (A&F) of a combined family and individual resilience intervention in two rural/semi-rural low-income settings in India and Kenya. We developed a five-session intervention including Life Skills Education (LSE) and a model of family resiliency. Among adolescents aged 14-16 years an…
Unraveling the Complexities of Substance-Induced Psychosis and its Transition to Independent Psychosis
Neurocognitive Dysfunctions in People with Concurrent Cannabis Use and Opioid Dependence
Cannabis and opioid co-dependence is independently associated with cognitive impairments. We examined neurocognitive dysfunctions in people with concurrent opioid dependence with cannabis dependence (OD+CD) or cannabis use (OD+CU) compared to those with only opioid dependence (OD) and healthy controls (HC). We selected adult participants, any sex, who met the diagnosis of OD ( N = 268), OD+CU ( N = 58), and OD + CD ( N = 115). We recruited 68 edu…
Does Prescription Length of Buprenorphine Influence Treatment Outcomes in Opioid Use Disorder? A Retrospective Cohort Study from North India
Objective Buprenorphine (BUP) effectively suppresses non-prescription opioid use and increases treatment retention in opioid use disorder (OUD). However, short prescription length may interfere with treatment retention and recovery. We wanted to examine whether the outcomes of BUP treatment differ in high (HPL up to 4 wk) and low-prescription (LPL 1–2 wk) length groups.Methods We compared time to treatment discontinuation (TD), non-prescription o…
Effectiveness of buprenorphine (naloxone) for opioid dependence does not differ across opioid categories
We aimed to examine whether treatment retention, abstinence, and adherence to buprenorphine-naloxone (BNX) differ among individuals with opioid dependence (OD) across three common categories of opioids- heroin, opium, and low-potency pharmaceutical. In a retrospective cohort study, we analyzed outpatient treatment records from March 2020 through February 2022. Opioid category was determined by lifetime and current opioid use. We defined treatment…
Predictors of Five-Year Readmission to an Inpatient Service among Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders
Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a relapsing-remitting disease that accounted for a sizable proportion of all-cause adult inpatient stays.Objectives To determine the predictors of any and multiple readmissions to inpatient care for AUD within 5 years of the index admission.Methods This retrospective, register-based cohort study assessed consecutive patients with AUD admitted to a publicly-funded inpatient service between January 2007 and …
Does Online Newsmedia Portrayal of Substance Use and Persons with Substance Misuse Endorse Stigma? A Qualitative Study from India
Predictors of Five-year Readmission to an Inpatient Service among Patients with Opioid Use Disorders
Background Opioid use disorder (OUD), a relapsing-remitting chronic medical disease, accounts for a sizable proportion of all-cause adult inpatient stays. We evaluated the incidence and predictors of any and multiple readmissions to inpatient care for OUD. Methods This retrospective, register-based cohort study assessed consecutive patients with OUD admitted to a federally-funded inpatient service of an addiction treatment center in North India b…
Screening and Brief Intervention for Cannabis Misuse in Individuals on Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Cannabis misuse and opioid use disorder (OUD) are highly comorbid but under-treated and associated with poorer outcomes. This paper reports a double-blind, parallel-group randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy of single-session, clinician-delivered screening and brief intervention (SBI) for reducing cannabis risk. The primary outcome was the cannabis-specific Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) score…
Predictors of Inpatient Care in a 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Registered in an Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program
Predictors of Dropout from an Outpatient Treatment Program for Substance Use Disorders in India
Extended lockdown and India’s alcohol policy
Do the various categories of somatoform disorders differ from each other in symptom profile and psychological correlates
BACKGROUND: In routine clinical practice, the subcategories of various somatoform disorders are rarely used by the primary care physicians and there is lack of data to suggest any difference in the clinical manifestations of these subcategories. AIM: To compare the symptom profile, anxiety, depression, alexithymia, somato-sensory amplification and hypochondriasis of patients with persistent somatoform pain disorder with other subtypes of somatofo…
How Do Indian Substance Users Perceive Stigma Towards Substance Use Vis-A-Vis Their Family Members
Perceived stigma towards substance use may determine family members' willingness to help in the treatment process of a substance user. This study aimed to compare the perceived stigma towards substance use among Indian substance users and their family members. Fifty dyads each of alcohol- and opioid-dependent men and their family members were recruited through purposive sampling. Perceived stigma was assessed using Perceived Stigma of Substance A…
Explanatory models of somatoform disorder patients attending a psychiatry outpatient clinic
BACKGROUND: The symptoms of somatoform disorders are very distressing to the sufferer as well as pose significant burden on the health-care delivery system. Although the nature of symptoms is physical, the underlying mechanisms are not clearly understood. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the explanatory models of patients with somatoform disorders presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Northern India. METHOD: A total of 99 co…
Stigma Towards Substance use
Codependence in spouses of alcohol and opioid dependent men
Codependence in family members of substance users seems to be a culturally influenced construct. This phenomenon is an understudied area in the developing world. The present study aimed to assess codependence in spouses of substance dependent men in a developing country and to evaluate its relationship with other clinical factors. A total of 100 spouses of alcohol or opioid dependent men seeking treatment at a de-addiction centre in India were re…
Codependence in spouses of alcohol and opioid dependent men
Codependence in family members of substance users seems to be a culturally influenced construct. This phenomenon is an understudied area in the developing world. The present study aimed to assess codependence in spouses of substance dependent men in a developing country and to evaluate its relationship with other clinical factors. A total of 100 spouses of alcohol or opioid dependent men seeking treatment at a de-addiction centre in India were re…
Codependence in spouses of alcohol and opioid dependent men
Codependence in family members of substance users seems to be a culturally influenced construct. This phenomenon is an understudied area in the developing world. The present study aimed to assess codependence in spouses of substance dependent men in a developing country and to evaluate its relationship with other clinical factors. A total of 100 spouses of alcohol or opioid dependent men seeking treatment at a de-addiction centre in India were re…
Explanatory models of somatoform disorder patients attending a psychiatry outpatient clinic
BACKGROUND: The symptoms of somatoform disorders are very distressing to the sufferer as well as pose significant burden on the health-care delivery system. Although the nature of symptoms is physical, the underlying mechanisms are not clearly understood. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the explanatory models of patients with somatoform disorders presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Northern India. METHOD: A total of 99 co…
Stigma Towards Substance use
Do the various categories of somatoform disorders differ from each other in symptom profile and psychological correlates
BACKGROUND: In routine clinical practice, the subcategories of various somatoform disorders are rarely used by the primary care physicians and there is lack of data to suggest any difference in the clinical manifestations of these subcategories. AIM: To compare the symptom profile, anxiety, depression, alexithymia, somato-sensory amplification and hypochondriasis of patients with persistent somatoform pain disorder with other subtypes of somatofo…
How Do Indian Substance Users Perceive Stigma Towards Substance Use Vis-A-Vis Their Family Members
Perceived stigma towards substance use may determine family members' willingness to help in the treatment process of a substance user. This study aimed to compare the perceived stigma towards substance use among Indian substance users and their family members. Fifty dyads each of alcohol- and opioid-dependent men and their family members were recruited through purposive sampling. Perceived stigma was assessed using Perceived Stigma of Substance A…
Predictors of Dropout from an Outpatient Treatment Program for Substance Use Disorders in India
Extended lockdown and India’s alcohol policy
Predictors of Inpatient Care in a 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Registered in an Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program
Predictors of Five-Year Readmission to an Inpatient Service among Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders
Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a relapsing-remitting disease that accounted for a sizable proportion of all-cause adult inpatient stays.Objectives To determine the predictors of any and multiple readmissions to inpatient care for AUD within 5 years of the index admission.Methods This retrospective, register-based cohort study assessed consecutive patients with AUD admitted to a publicly-funded inpatient service between January 2007 and …
Does Online Newsmedia Portrayal of Substance Use and Persons with Substance Misuse Endorse Stigma? A Qualitative Study from India
Predictors of Five-year Readmission to an Inpatient Service among Patients with Opioid Use Disorders
Background Opioid use disorder (OUD), a relapsing-remitting chronic medical disease, accounts for a sizable proportion of all-cause adult inpatient stays. We evaluated the incidence and predictors of any and multiple readmissions to inpatient care for OUD. Methods This retrospective, register-based cohort study assessed consecutive patients with OUD admitted to a federally-funded inpatient service of an addiction treatment center in North India b…
Screening and Brief Intervention for Cannabis Misuse in Individuals on Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Cannabis misuse and opioid use disorder (OUD) are highly comorbid but under-treated and associated with poorer outcomes. This paper reports a double-blind, parallel-group randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy of single-session, clinician-delivered screening and brief intervention (SBI) for reducing cannabis risk. The primary outcome was the cannabis-specific Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) score…
Does Prescription Length of Buprenorphine Influence Treatment Outcomes in Opioid Use Disorder? A Retrospective Cohort Study from North India
Objective Buprenorphine (BUP) effectively suppresses non-prescription opioid use and increases treatment retention in opioid use disorder (OUD). However, short prescription length may interfere with treatment retention and recovery. We wanted to examine whether the outcomes of BUP treatment differ in high (HPL up to 4 wk) and low-prescription (LPL 1–2 wk) length groups.Methods We compared time to treatment discontinuation (TD), non-prescription o…
Effectiveness of buprenorphine (naloxone) for opioid dependence does not differ across opioid categories
We aimed to examine whether treatment retention, abstinence, and adherence to buprenorphine-naloxone (BNX) differ among individuals with opioid dependence (OD) across three common categories of opioids- heroin, opium, and low-potency pharmaceutical. In a retrospective cohort study, we analyzed outpatient treatment records from March 2020 through February 2022. Opioid category was determined by lifetime and current opioid use. We defined treatment…
Acceptability and feasibility of a brief intervention to enhance resilience among young people and their families in India and Kenya
Enhancing resilience is one way to prevent future mental illnesses and encourage recovery in the face of adversity. To develop and test the acceptability and feasibility (A&F) of a combined family and individual resilience intervention in two rural/semi-rural low-income settings in India and Kenya. We developed a five-session intervention including Life Skills Education (LSE) and a model of family resiliency. Among adolescents aged 14-16 years an…
Unraveling the Complexities of Substance-Induced Psychosis and its Transition to Independent Psychosis
Neurocognitive Dysfunctions in People with Concurrent Cannabis Use and Opioid Dependence
Cannabis and opioid co-dependence is independently associated with cognitive impairments. We examined neurocognitive dysfunctions in people with concurrent opioid dependence with cannabis dependence (OD+CD) or cannabis use (OD+CU) compared to those with only opioid dependence (OD) and healthy controls (HC). We selected adult participants, any sex, who met the diagnosis of OD ( N = 268), OD+CU ( N = 58), and OD + CD ( N = 115). We recruited 68 edu…
Implementing integrated mental health and substance use disorder services in Indian primary care
Integrating mental health & substance use disorders (MSUDs) care into other NCDs remains a priority for bridging India’s wide treatment gap. While national programs such as District Mental Health Programme and Ayushman Bharat have laid foundational pathways, translating policy into everyday practice continues to face substantial challenges. This study explored how mental health services are being implemented across seven Indian states, using the …
Efficacy of Family-based Interventions in Addressing Substance Use Disorders
Effectiveness of Training Non‐Specialist Health Workers for the Management of Substance Use Disorders
Acceptability and Feasibility of a Social Contact Based Intervention for Reduction of Public Stigma Against Persons With Opioid Use Disorder
Background and Aim: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a major public health issue, exacerbated by public stigma that hinders treatment-seeking and social integration. This study aimed to adapt and validate a social-contact-based intervention to reduce public stigma against individuals with OUD in India, ensuring cultural relevance and feasibility. Methods: The study followed a two-phase approach: adaptation and validation using the ADAPT framework and…
Patterns of alcohol use and response to digital brief interventions in college students
Underage drinking represents three latent classes. Digital interventions can effectively reduce alcohol use across all classes of underage college problem drinkers
Medicine (16 obras) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (15 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Internal Medicine (11 obras) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Opioid (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Retrospective cohort study (7 obras)