Purnima Madhivanan

Biographic Data

ID75815
NAMEPurnima Madhivanan
GIVEN NAMESPurnima
FAMILY NAMEMadhivanan
SIGNATUREMADHIVANAN P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arizona
ORCID0000-0001-7818-3394
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Between the scales and the scars

    Open AccessFnu Kajal, Bin Suh et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Adverse childhood mental health outcomes have emerged as a significant public health concern, with an increasing body of evidence linking children’s obesity with increased risk of mental health outcomes. This is a cross-sectional study of 40,820 U.S. children aged 6–17 used survey-weighted logistic regression on the 2021–22 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) data. The study examined whether interpersonal factors such as bullying, poor mo…

  • A Latent Profile Analysis of Covid-19 and Influenza Vaccine Hesitancy among Economically Marginalized Hispanic Mothers of Children under Five Years of Age in the US

    Open AccessY W Park, Elise Bragard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2025References: 55

    Rates of COVID-19 and influenza vaccine coverage among Hispanic young children continue to be low in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups in the United States. This study utilized a person-centered approach to understand COVID-19 and influenza vaccination hesitancy for young children under the age of five among 309 economically marginalized Hispanic mothers. Drawing on the cultural health belief model, in 2022, following FDA approval of t…

  • The downstream effects of Covid-19 on adolescent girls in the Peruvian Amazon

    Open AccessLisa L Woodson, Adriana Garcia Saldivar et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Due to COVID-19, schools were closed to mitigate disease spread. Past studies have shown that disruptions in education have unintended consequences for adolescents, including increasing their risk of school dropout, exploitation, gender-based violence, pregnancy and early unions. In Peru, the government closed schools from March 2020 to March 2022, declaring a national emergency that affected an estimated 8 million children. These closures may ha…

  • Neighborhood characteristics and HIV treatment outcomes

    Open AccessLinda Jepkoech Kimaru, Magdiel A Habila et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Recognizing challenges faced by people living with HIV is vital for improving their HIV treatment outcomes. While individual-level interventions play a crucial role, community factors can shape the impact of individual interventions on treatment outcomes. Understanding neighborhood characteristics’ association with HIV treatment outcomes is crucial for optimizing effectiveness. This review aims to summarize the research scope on the association b…

  • Anti-human Trafficking Service Professionals in India

    Claire E Helpingstine, D Stephens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Trafficking2024

    Sex trafficking (ST) interventions in India typically follow the “three R’s” – rescue, rehabilitation, and reintegration. Anti-human trafficking service organizations (AHTSOs) play an essential role in implementing the “three Rs,” influencing India’s anti-trafficking policy and aid for trafficking survivors. However, few investigations have explored AHTSOs professionals’ perceptions of their roles and the multilevel factors that influence their a…

  • Qualitative Study to Explore the Occupational and Reproductive Health Challenges among Women Tobacco Farm Laborers in Mysore District, India

    Open AccessPriyanka Ravi, Kiranmayee Muralidhar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Tobacco farm laborers are primarily women and children working for very low wages. The aim of this study was to explore occupational and reproductive health challenges faced by women tobacco farm laborers in Mysore District, India. We conducted interviews and six focus group discussions among 41 women tobacco farm laborers. Codes and themes were generated based on deductive and inductive approaches using the socioecological model. Participants re…

  • Acceptability of HPV vaccination for cervical cancer prevention amongst emerging adult women in rural Mysore, India

    Open AccessKate Coursey, Kiranmayee Muralidhar et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Participants had poor knowledge of cervical cancer and HPV. Social attributes (family support, peer influence) had greatest impacts on LTV, and future studies should explore family-based interventions and peer education. Providing free vaccines at government centers through India's national immunization program would maximize catch-up HPV vaccination for rural young women

  • You have a lot of mirrors’

    Lisa L Woodson, Adriana Garcia Saldivar et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2024

    Loreto, in the Peruvian Amazon, has one of the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the country. However, underlying causes of adolescent pregnancy are not fully understood as data are limited in Indigenous and remote Amazonian communities. This study investigated adolescent reproductive health within Loreto using an ecological systems framework. Forty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted in June 2022: community leaders (n = 12) and ado…

  • A Glossary of Distress Expressions Among Kannada-Speaking Urban Hindu Women

    Open AccessL J Weaver, Shivamma Nanjaiah et al.ARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2024References: 34

  • Hear my voice

    Open AccessTina Samsamshariat, Purnima Madhivanan et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the collapse of the Peruvian health system, disrupting healthcare access for indigenous communities in the Amazon. Our study analysed how community health workers (CHWs) from indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon expanded their roles to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: Fourteen CHWs from Loreto, Peru, participated in a community-based participatory research project using Ph…

  • Sociodemographic patterns of preterm birth and low birth weight among pregnant women in rural Mysore district, India

    Open AccessSandra Kiplagat, Kavitha Ravi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2023

    Few studies have utilized person-centered approaches to examine co-occurrence of risk factors among pregnant women in low-and middle-income settings. The objective of this study was to utilize latent class analysis (LCA) to identify sociodemographic patterns and assess the association of these patterns on preterm birth (PTB) and/or low birth weight (LBW) in rural Mysore District, India. Secondary data analysis of a prospective cohort study among …

  • Will increasing access to mental health treatment close India's mental health gap

    Open AccessL J Weaver, Alison Karasz et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2023

    India's National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) reports a treatment gap for common mental disorders of over 85 percent, which they attribute to lack of awareness and access to psychiatric services in India. Interventions aiming to close that treatment gap through task-sharing have gained significant traction in India, but have met with mixed success, particularly in long-term perspective. We critically examined the fundamental assumptions embedded i…

  • Prevalence and correlates of metabolic syndrome among women living in urban slums, Mysore, India

    Open AccessKarl Krupp, Arathi P Rao et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Metabolic Syndrome (MetSyn) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD). About a third of urban Indians suffer from MetSyn. This study examined the prevalence of MetSyn among women living in urban slums. A cross-sectional survey was carried out between October 2017 and May 2018 among a non-probability sample of slum-dwelling women, 40–64 years of age, in six government-designated slums in Mysore, India. Data were collected on demographics, die…

  • Asking physicians how best to implement cervical cancer prevention services in India

    Open AccessPrajakta Adsul, Sasha Herbst de Cortina et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among Indian women. Screening is an effective prevention strategy, but achieving high screening rates depend upon identifying barriers at multiple levels of healthcare delivery. There is limited research on understanding the perspectives of providers who deliver cancer prevention services. The objective of this study was to explore physician perspectives on cervical cancer prevention, barriers to e…

  • The Hair in the Garland

    Open AccessL J Weaver, Karl Krupp et al.ARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2022

  • Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures

    Open AccessCourtney B Hilton, Cody J Moser et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2022Cited by: 5References: 97

  • Conceptual and methodological challenges in idioms of distress research

    Open AccessL J Weaver, Karl Krupp et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatric…2022Cited by: 5References: 63

    Research premised on the construct of idioms of distress has proliferated in the last 40 years. The aim of this work is to foreground the experiential and socially adaptive functions of cultural expressions of distress around the world. Researchers who work in this field often begin from very different starting points in terms of their prior knowledge of the research context, their interest in theoretical or applied implications of their work, an…

  • Testing Scalability of a Diabetes Self-Management Intervention in Northern Mexico

    Open AccessBenjamin Aceves, Catalina A Denman et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has become a major issue in Mexico, reporting almost 100,000 attributable deaths in 2016. Low-income Mexican citizens who face various issues associated with T2DM, including the lack of access to self-management services, are particularly affected by the condition. Health centers have been designated to serve T2DM patients by providing resources on chronic disease prevention. Meta Salud Diabetes (MSD) i…

  • Multilevel influences of women’s empowerment and economic resources on risky sexual behaviour among young women in Zomba district, Malawi

    Open AccessMelissa Ward‐Peterson, Kristopher Fennie et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2021

    Gender disparities are pronounced in Zomba district, Malawi. Among women aged 15–49 years, HIV prevalence is 16.8%, compared with 9.3% among men of the same age. Complex structural factors are associated with risky sexual behaviour leading to HIV infection. This study’s objective was to explore associations between multilevel measures of economic resources and women’s empowerment with risky sexual behaviour among young women in Zomba. Four measur…

  • Cervical Visual Inspection With Acetic Acid (Via) and Oncogenic Human Papillomavirus Screening in Rural Indigenous Guatemalan Women

    Open AccessAnne Jeffries, Consuelo M Beck‐Sagué et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Single-visit "screen-and-treat" strategies using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and cryotherapy (liquid nitrous oxide ablation) in low-resource settings are commonly used to detect and treat precancerous lesions for cervical cancer prevention. This study compared VIA sensitivity and specificity in rural indigenous Guatemalan communities, to that of oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) testing for detection of precancerous changes, using…

  • Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence, Substance Use Disorders and Depression among Incarcerated Women in Lima, Perú

    Open AccessElena Cyrus, Jorge Sanchez et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The findings provide evidence of a syndemic of IPV, substance abuse and depression among incarcerated women in a Peruvian prison. To help guide policy makers, further research is needed to determine if this is indicative of trends for other at-risk women in the region, and viable options to treat these women during incarceration to prevent recidivism and other long-term negative sequalae

  • Pregnancy Fasting in Ramadan

    Caitlyn D Placek, Poornima Jaykrishna et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition2021

    Pregnancy fasting poses a paradox: why would a woman restrict her diet during a period of increased nutritional need? This qualitative, cross-sectional study applied biological and cultural evolutionary theories of pregnancy diet to emic models of fasting with the aim of establishing a testable biocultural framework of pregnancy fasting. The research took place with Muslim women residing in Mysore, India. In-depth interviews were conducted with p…

  • Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration

    Open AccessMark Urassa, D W Lawson et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Cited by: 8References: 10

    Research centres in low- and middle-income countries are routinely circumvented in the production of cross-cultural research on human behaviour. Where local contributions are made, collaboration is rarely equitable and often uncredited in co-authorship. Efforts to decolonize the social sciences will remain inadequate until these norms are overturned

  • Environmental stress and human life history strategy development in rural and peri-urban South India

    Open AccessGeorge B Richardson, Caitlyn D Placek et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2020

  • An Integrated Approach to Improve Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being During the Covid-19 Crisis

    Open AccessRahul Shidhaye, Purnima Madhivanan et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to disruption of normal life across the globe, severely affecting the already vulnerable populations such as the pregnant women. Maternal mental health and well-being is a public health priority and the evidence about the impact of COVID-19 on mental health status of pregnant women is gradually emerging. The findings of the recently published studies suggest that increased risk perception about contracting CO…