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Suchitra Rath

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Articles 34
Citations 937
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Related Specialties
Public Health
General Medicine
Gynecology & Obstetrics
Top 10 Co-Authors
Audrey Prost
Nirmala Nair
Shibanand Rath
Prasanta Tripathy
Anthony Costello
Rajesh Sinha
Rajkumar Gope
Hemanta Pradhan
Andrew Copas
Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli
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Am J Prev Med
BMC Public Health
Trials
Matern Child Nutr
BMJ Glob Health
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Recent Articles
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Feasibility, acceptability and equity of a mobile intervention for Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition (m-UPAVAN) in rural Odisha, India
Fivian E, Parida M, Harris-Fry H, Mohanty S, Padhan S, Pradhan R, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 May; 4(5):e0003206. PMID: 38743726
Addressing undernutrition requires strategies that remove barriers to health for all. We adapted an intervention from the 'UPAVAN' trial to a mobile intervention (m-UPAVAN) during the COVID-19 pandemic in rural...
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Economic evaluation of participatory women's groups scaled up by the public health system to improve birth outcomes in Jharkhand, eastern India
Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Ojha A, Gope R, Rath S, Pradhan H, Rath S, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2023 Jun; 3(6):e0001128. PMID: 37384595
An estimated 2.4 million newborn infants died in 2020, 80% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. To achieve the Sustainable Development Target for neonatal mortality reduction, countries with...
3.
Intrahousehold power inequalities and cooperation: Unpacking household responses to nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions in rural India
Harris-Fry H, Prost A, Beaumont E, Fivian E, Mohanty S, Parida M, et al.
Matern Child Nutr . 2023 Mar; 19(3):e13503. PMID: 36939121
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) interventions offer a means to improve the dietary quality of rural, undernourished populations. Their effectiveness could be further increased by understanding how household dynamics enable or inhibit...
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Effects of community youth teams facilitating participatory adolescent groups, youth leadership activities and livelihood promotion to improve school attendance, dietary diversity and mental health among adolescent girls in rural eastern India (JIAH...
Bhatia K, Rath S, Pradhan H, Samal S, Copas A, Gagrai S, et al.
SSM Popul Health . 2023 Jan; 21:101330. PMID: 36618545
Objectives: To evaluate whether and how community youth teams facilitating participatory adolescent groups, youth leadership and livelihood promotion improved school attendance, dietary diversity, and mental health among adolescent girls in...
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Understanding the effects of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions with participatory videos and women's group meetings on maternal and child nutrition in rural Odisha, India: A mixed-methods process evaluation
Prost A, Harris-Fry H, Mohanty S, Parida M, Krishnan S, Fivian E, et al.
Matern Child Nutr . 2022 Jul; 18(4):e13398. PMID: 35851750
A trial of three nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions with participatory videos and women's group meetings in rural Odisha, India, found improvements in maternal and child dietary diversity, limited effects on agricultural...
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Economic Evaluation of Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Interventions to Increase Maternal and Child Dietary Diversity and Nutritional Status in Rural Odisha, India
Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Harris-Fry H, Kumar A, Pradhan R, Mishra N, Padhan S, et al.
J Nutr . 2022 Jun; 152(10):2255-2268. PMID: 35687367
Background: Economic evaluations of nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) interventions are scarce, limiting assessment of their potential affordability and scalability. Objectives: We conducted cost-consequence analyses of 3 participatory video-based interventions of fortnightly...
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Effectiveness of participatory women's groups scaled up by the public health system to improve birth outcomes in Jharkhand, eastern India: a pragmatic cluster non-randomised controlled trial
Nair N, Tripathy P, Gope R, Rath S, Pradhan H, Rath S, et al.
BMJ Glob Health . 2021 Nov; 6(11). PMID: 34732513
Introduction: The WHO recommends community mobilisation with women's groups practising participatory learning and action (PLA) to improve neonatal survival in high-mortality settings. This intervention has not been evaluated at scale...
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Effect of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions with participatory videos and women's group meetings on maternal and child nutritional outcomes in rural Odisha, India (UPAVAN trial): a four-arm, observer-blind, cluster-randomised controlled...
Kadiyala S, Harris-Fry H, Pradhan R, Mohanty S, Padhan S, Rath S, et al.
Lancet Planet Health . 2021 Apr; 5(5):e263-e276. PMID: 33811818
Background: Almost a quarter of the world's undernourished people live in India. We tested the effects of three nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) interventions on maternal and child nutrition in India. Methods:...
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How to design a complex behaviour change intervention: experiences from a nutrition-sensitive agriculture trial in rural India
Harris-Fry H, OHearn M, Pradhan R, Krishnan S, Nair N, Rath S, et al.
BMJ Glob Health . 2020 Jun; 5(6). PMID: 32513863
Many public health interventions aim to promote healthful behaviours, with varying degrees of success. With a lack of existing empirical evidence on the optimal number or combination of behaviours to...
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Community mobilisation to prevent violence against women and girls in eastern India through participatory learning and action with women's groups facilitated by accredited social health activists: a before-and-after pilot study
Nair N, Daruwalla N, Osrin D, Rath S, Gagrai S, Sahu R, et al.
BMC Int Health Hum Rights . 2020 Mar; 20(1):6. PMID: 32213182
Background: Almost one in three married Indian women have ever experienced physical, sexual, or emotional violence from husbands in their lifetime. We aimed to investigate the preliminary effects of community...