Saravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan

Datos Biográficos

ID7008792
NOMBRESaravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan
NOMBRESSaravanakumar Puthupalayam
APELLIDOKaliappan
FIRMAKALIAPPAN S P
AFILIACIONESchristian medical college, vellore
ORCID0000-0002-1904-6880
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS4
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR4
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Disparities in deworming coverage between children with and without disabilities

    Open AccessShanquan Chen, Rohan Michael Ramesh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    BACKGROUND: Children with disabilities experience lower school enrolment rates and may be systematically excluded from school-based deworming programmes. The DeWorm3 trial provided an opportunity to evaluate whether community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA) could reduce these disparities by reaching children outside the education system. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of the data from the DeWorm3 trial in Tamil Nadu, India. Child…

  • Community Drug Distributor Knowledge, Attitudes, and Motivation Surrounding Mass Drug Administration for Soil-Transmitted Helminths in India

    Open AccessKumudha Aruldas, Saravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: DeWorm3 is an ongoing multi-country community-based cluster-randomized trial assessing the feasibility of interrupting transmission of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) with community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA). In Tamil Nadu, India, community drug distributors (CDDs) worked with DeWorm3 field staff to counsel community members and deliver door-to-door deworming treatment. As CDDs were likely to influence successful delivery …

  • Development and application of an electronic treatment register

    Open AccessWilliam E Oswald, David S Kennedy et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    We developed an electronic treatment register for the DeWorm3 Project, a cluster-randomised, controlled trial in Benin, India, and Malawi testing the feasibility of interrupting transmission of soil-transmitted helminths through community-wide mass drug administration. The electronic treatment register was designed in xlsform, deployed via the SurveyCTO mobile data collection platform, and implemented on smartphones running the Android operating …

  • Comparison of fieldworker interview and a pictorial diary method for recording morbidity of infants in semi-urban slums

    Open AccessRahul J Thomas, Karthikeyan Ramanujam et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Diary recording was incomplete in the majority of households. When recorded, the morbidity data by the pictorial diary method for acute illnesses were reliable. Strategies are needed to address behavioural factors affecting maternal recording such that field studies can obtain accurate morbidity measurements with limited resources