Abstract
To review the number of research publications in the field of mental health in Sri Lanka from 1900 to 2009. A search of all publications in psychiatry and mental health from Sri Lanka was conducted using Pubmed, all medical journals published in Sri Lanka and researchers. The identified papers were reviewed for their content and categorised as research in psychiatry and mental health, based on strict inclusion and exclusion criteria. A total of 207 papers were identified. The first mental health research publication from Sri Lanka is in 1964. The last decade (2000-2009) accounted for 62% of the publications with the majority of the papers being published in indexed journals. The Ceylon Medical Journal carried the most number of papers and the topic on which most of the research was conducted was suicide and deliberate self harm. There is an increasing trend towards research in to psychiatry and mental health in Sri Lanka.
Highlights
Good quality research is vital to promote scientific rigor in the practice of medicine in this era of evidence based medicine (EBM) [1,2]
Research into mental health and psychiatry is essential for the development of psychiatry in Sri Lanka
Each individual article was scrutinised by three experts, and was included if they met the following criteria: containing research data including case reports on psychiatry/mental health and the research was conducted in Sri Lanka and/or on a Sri Lankan population
Summary
Good quality research is vital to promote scientific rigor in the practice of medicine in this era of evidence based medicine (EBM) [1,2]. In this sense, research into mental health and psychiatry is essential for the development of psychiatry in Sri Lanka. Many of these research findings are not directly applicable to our local context. There is all the more reason to focus on promoting research that is locally relevant. In relation to research output in mental health and psychiatry in Sri Lanka, and the areas researched or under-researched, are not known
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