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Introduction The number of people with dementia will increase in India in the years to come as in rest of the world. So far, there is no cure for dementia disease. With the progression of dementia, the person with dementia is unable to carry out his or her daily living activities independently. Health care responsibilities are mainly borne by individual families in countries like India. There is a scarcity of studies exploring informal and formal caregivers’ experiences providing care to people with dementia from an Indian perspective. Method and analysis This protocol follows the Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewer’s Manual (2020) for scoping review and is registered with the Open Science Framework…. We will include following databases: Medline, Embase, PsycInfo, CINAHL, Web of science and Epistemonikos. Four reviewers will independently screen eligible studies for inclusion based on the inclusion criteria. Four reviewers will independently review the full text of the selected studies. We will extract bibliographical data, study design, setting and identify key findings related to experiences of caregivers of people with dementia in an Indian setting. Identified concepts will be analysed and described using narrative synthesis? Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval is not required for scoping review as data analysis is secondary analysis based on published data. We plan to disseminate the results through peer-reviewed journals and conferences targeting informal and formal caregivers of people with dementia. We hope that the knowledge gained by this study may enable better health care and supportive services to this population in India.

Violence against women is a priority public health issue. Women with mental illness are at a double disadvantage. While social norms and beliefs either support or confront violence against women, research is limited on this issue. A randomized controlled design was adopted for the present study. This study was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of module-based training in changing nurses’ attitudes towards norms and beliefs that support violence against women in mental health care settings. In this study, 68 nurses were randomly assigned to either the experimental or control group (34 in each group). After receiving the training program, the mean scores on norms and beliefs and justifiability of abuse scales were significantly higher in the experimental group compared to the control group (p

Nurses caring for psychiatric patients may have to face violent emotions and unpredictable behaviour which can be quite stressful. A stress management program may equip nurses with skills to cope effectively with the stress. A one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted to test this hypothesis. Both gender nurses caring for psychiatric patients were invited to undergo 10 consecutive, one hour sessions of a stress management program. The DCL Stress scale (The De Villiers, Carson & Leary Stress Scale; Carson et al., 1997a,b,c) was used to collect data immediately after intervention and four weeks later. RM ANOVA with spss 16 showed that pre-intervention mean stress reduced significantly (p=0.000) from 57.45±16.42 to 41.06±16.51 immediately following the intervention and 26.43±12.82 (p=0.000) four weeks after the intervention. The stress management strategies positively impacted on nurses' stress levels.