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Samarth was registered as a society under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1956 on 24th May 2007.

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Muthu MS, Ganesh A, Padmanabhan R, Nuvvua, Mohanraj R. Development and validation of a scale to assess feeding at sleep time among infants and toddlers. Community dentistry and oral epidemiology. June 2020. DOI: 10.1111/cdoe.12558.
Mohanraj R, Kumar S, Jayakumar S, Agarwal M, Dhingra B, Jeyaseelan V, et al. (2019) Where do mothers take their children for pneumonia care? Findings from three Indian states. PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214331.
Kumar S, Kumar G, Velu S, Pardhan S, Sivaprasad S, Ruamviboonsuk P and Raman R. Patient and provider perspectives on barriers to screening for diabetic retinopathy: an exploratory study from southern India. BMJ Open 2020;10:e037277. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-037277
Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj, Bhavna Dhingra, Monika Agarwal and Saradha Suresh Optimizing Care-Seeking for Childhood Pneumonia: A Public Health Perspective, Indian Pediatrics . Accepted for publication (in Press)
Srinivasan T, Ramachandran P, Kumar S & Mohanraj R. (2018). Cross-cultural differences in recovery from schizophrenia: What to compare? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 53. 10.1177/0004867418812677
Maria Reinius,Deepa Rao , Lisa E. Manhart, Maria Wiklander, Veronica Svedhem, John Pryor,, Randall Mayer, Kumar S & Mohanraj R., Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan, Bambi Gaddist, Lena Wettergren, Lars E. Eriksson (March 2018) :Differential item functioning for items in Berger’s HIV Stigma Scale:an analysis of cohorts from the Indian, Swedish, and US contexts Quality of Life Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1841-4
Mirja Koschorke,, R. Padmavati, Kumar S , Alex Cohen, Helen A. Weiss, Sudipto Chatterjee, , Jesina Pereira,Smita Naik , Sujit John,Hamid Dabholkar,Madhumitha Balaji, Animish Chavan, Mathew Varghese , R. Thara, Vikram Patel, Graham Thornicroft: Experiences of stigma and discrimination faced by family caregivers of people with schizophrenia in India Social Science and Medicine 178 (2017)66-77
VisalakshiJeyaseelan, Shuba Kumar, L Jeyaseelan, Viswanathan Shankar, Bijesh Kumar Yadav, Shrikant I Bangdiwala. Dowry Demand and Harassment: Prevalence and Risk Factors in India. Journal of Biosocial Science. January 2015, pp 1 – 19
Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Madhumitha Balaji, Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj, Atif Rahman, Helena Verdeli, Ricardo Araya, M.J.D. Jordans, Neerja Chowdhary and Vikram Patel. Using Consumer Perspectives to Inform the Cultural Adaptation of Psychological Treatments for Depression: A Mixed Methods Study from South Asia. Journal of Affective Disorders 163 (2014) 88–101.
Rani Mohanraj, Visalakshi Jeyaseelan, Shuba Kumar,Thenmozhi Mani, Deepa Rao, Katherine R. Murray and Lisa E. Manhart. Cultural Adaptation of the Brief COPE for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Southern India. AIDS Behav DOI 10.1007/s10461-014-0872-2. Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014.
Nora J Kleinman, Lisa Manhart, Rani Mohanraj, Shuba Kumar, Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan, Deepa Rao and Jane M Simoni. Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Measurement in Non-Clinical Settings in South India. Aids Care 2014 doi. 10.1080/09540121.2014.946382.
Rani Mohanraj, Shuba Kumar, Sarojini Manikandan, Veerapandian Kannaiyan and Lakshmi Vijayakumar. A Public Health Initiative for Reducing Access to Pesticides as a Means to Committing Suicide: Findings from a Qualitative Study. International Review of Psychiatry August 2014; 26(4):445-452.
MirjaKoschorke, R. Padmavati, Shuba Kumar, Alex Cohen, Helen A. Weiss, Sudipto Chatterjee, Jesina Pereira, Smita Naik, Sujit John, Hamid Dabholkar, Madhumitha Balaji, Animish Chavan, Mathew Varghese, R. Thara, Graham Thornicroft, Vikram Patel. Experiences of Stigma and Discrimination of People with Schizophrenia in India. Social Science and Medicine, 123, (2014) 149-159.
Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan, Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj, Shanmugasundaram Devika and Sarojini Manikandan. A Central Storage Facility to Reduce Pesticide Suicides: A Feasibility Study from India. BMC Public Health (2013), 13:850. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-850
Abhijit Nadkarni, Hamid Dabholkar, Jim McCambridge, Bhargav Bhat, Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj, Pratima Murthy, Vikram Patel. The Explanatory Models and Coping Strategies for Alcohol Use Disorders: An Exploratory Qualitative Study from India. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 6 (2013) 521–527
Jeyanthi Gandhi, Shanthi Sangareddi, Poovazhagi Varadarajan, and Saradha Suresh. Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 Score as an Outcome Predictor in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in India. Indian J Crit Care Med. 2013 Sep-Oct; 17(5): 288–291. DOI: 10.4103/0972-5229.120320 PMCID: PMC3841491
Padmanabhan Ramachandran, Sean Patrick Fitzwater, Satinder Aneja…Saradha Suresh. Prospective Multi-Centre Sentinel Surveillance for Haemophilus Influenzae type b & Other Bacterial Meningitis in Indian Children. Indian J Med Res 137, April 2013, pp 712-720
Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj, Anuradha Rose, M.J Paul and George Thomas (2012). How Informed is Informed Consent: Findings from a Study in South India. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics Vol IX, No. 3, July - September 2012
Ramakrishnan U, Lowe A, Vir S, Kumar S, Mohanraj R, Chaturvedi A, Noznesky E, Martorell R, Mason JB. Public Health Interventions, Barriers and Opportunities for Improving Maternal Nutrition in India. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 2012. Vol.33. Supplement1, June 2012, pp. 71-92 (22)
Jeyaseelan L, Kumar S, Mohanraj R , Rebekah G, Rao D, Manhart LE. Assessing HIV/AIDS Stigma in South India: Validation and Abridgement of the Berger HIV Stigma Scale. AIDS Behav. 2012; DOI 10.1007/s10461-011-0128-3 Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC 2012
Kumar S, Mohanraj R, Sudha V, Wedick NW, Malik V, Frank B. Hu. Spiegelman D and Mohan V. Perceptions about Brown Rice: A Qualitative Study from Southern India. Journal of American Dietetic Association.2011; 111(10): 1112-22
Geng Zhang, Vasanti S Malik, An Pan, Shuba Kumar, Michelle Holmes, Donna Spiegelman and Frank Hu (2010) Substituting Brown Rice for White Rice to Lower Diabetes Risk: A Focus Group Study in Chinese Adults. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 110: 1216-1221.
Rani Mohanraj, Karunanidhi Subbaiah. Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms among Urban Adolescents in South India. J. Indian Assoc. Child Adolesc. Ment. Health 2010; 6(2):33-43
Mohanraj Rani, Subbhiah Karunanidhi, Watson Basilea. Risk and Protective Factors to Depressive Symptoms in School-Going Adolescents. J. Indian Assoc. Child Adolesc. Ment. Health 2010; 6(4):101-119
Sudipto Chatterjee, Berit Kieselbach, Smita Naik, Shuba Kumar, Sujit John, Madhumitha Balaji, Mirja Koschorke, Hamid Dabholkar, et al. Customising Informed Consent Procedures for People with Schizophrenia in India. The International Journal for Research in Social and Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health Services. ISSN 0933-7954. DOI 10.1007/s00127-015-1037-y
Shuba Kumar, Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan, Saradha Suresh, Ramesh Chandra Ahuja for the IndiaSAFE Steering Committee. Domestic Violence and its Mental Health Correlates in Indian Women. British Journal of Psychiatry (2005), 187, 62 - 67
Rani Mohanraj and Latha. Perceived Family Environment in Relation to Adjustment and Academic Achievement. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, January - July 2005, Vol. 31, No.1-2, 18-23.
Abraham Peedicayil, Laura S. Sadowski, Lakshman Jeyaseelan, Viswanathan Shankar, Dipty Jain, Saradha Suresh, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, the IndiaSAFE Group. Spousal Physical Violence against Women during Pregnancy. BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, July 2004, Vol. 111, pp. 682–687. DOI: 1 0 .1111/j.1471-0528.2004.00151.x

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