Kathiravan Srinivasan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 7548368 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kathiravan Srinivasan |
| NOMBRES | Kathiravan |
| APELLIDO | Srinivasan |
| FIRMA | SRINIVASAN K |
| AFILIACIONES | Vellore Institute of Technology University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9352-0237 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 24 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Structural Violence and the Social Determinants of Mental Health
Introduction: In 2017, a provincial Liberal government launched the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) to assess a promising approach to poverty reduction in Ontario, Canada. It was prematurely canceled by a subsequent Conservative government, despite election promises assuring that it would continue. The cancelation affected 4000 OBIP recipients. Objective: This study explored how participants’ lives were on the OBIP compared to their lives befor…
A comprehensive review on NUI, multi-sensory interfaces and UX design for applications and devices for visually impaired users
In today’s world, there has been a significant increase in the use of devices, gadgets, and mobile applications in our daily activities. Although this has had a significant impact on the lives of the general public, people who are Partially Visually Impaired SPVI, which includes a much broader range of vision loss that includes mild to severe impairments, and Completely Visually Impaired (CVI), who have no light perception, still face significant…
Coming to Terms
Bereaved mothers with a deep bond to their sick child experience a distinct grieving process. This study delved into how Korean bereaved mothers come to terms with their child’s death from cancer by exploring their bereavement and adaptation processes. In‐depth interviews with 15 bereaved mothers yielded 14 subthemes within three overarching themes. These themes included the diverse coping mechanisms employed by the participants, attribution of m…
Could Peer‐Mentors Support Families of Care Home Residents to Prepare for Deterioration and End‐of‐Life? An Interview Study with Families and Care Home Staff
When older people move into a care home, family members often continue to be involved in caregiving. This can include contributing to discussion and decisions about care and treatment, especially when the resident lacks capacity. However, families may not know what to expect as their relative’s condition progresses and may not have a good understanding of their relative’s end‐of‐life care and treatment wishes. Therefore, although often willing, f…
The Impact of Family Physician Contracting on Healthcare Costs
With the aging population, the financial burdens associated with chronic diseases continue to escalate. Among various management strategies, family physician contracting stands out as a significant initiative aimed at addressing this challenge, officially introduced in China in 2016. However, current research has given relatively little attention to the economic benefits of family physician contracting in developing countries. This paper evaluate…
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Warm Banks Scheme as a Response to the Cost‐of‐Living Crisis in North East England
Fuel poverty was a significant problem during the cost‐of‐living crisis that started in 2021 as energy prices increased. Local authorities launched warm bank schemes around the United Kingdom to address this problem by providing warm spaces for residents to visit who could not heat their homes. This paper reports on an evaluation of the warm bank scheme launched by South Tyneside Council in winter 2022, locally known as Welcoming Places. Over 70 …
MRI brain tumor segmentation using residual Spatial Pyramid Pooling-powered 3D U-Net
Brain tumor diagnosis has been a lengthy process, and automation of a process such as brain tumor segmentation speeds up the timeline. U-Nets have been a commonly used solution for semantic segmentation, and it uses a downsampling-upsampling approach to segment tumors. U-Nets rely on residual connections to pass information during upsampling; however, an upsampling block only receives information from one downsampling block. This restricts the co…
A framework to distinguish healthy/cancer renal CT images using the fused deep features
Introduction: Cancer happening rates in humankind are gradually rising due to a variety of reasons, and sensible detection and management are essential to decrease the disease rates. The kidney is one of the vital organs in human physiology, and cancer in the kidney is a medical emergency and needs accurate diagnosis and well-organized management. Methods: The proposed work aims to develop a framework to classify renal computed tomography (CT) im…
Living Alone, Cognitive Function, and Well-Being of Japanese Older Men and Women
This study examined the interaction of living alone and cognitive decline in relation to the well-being of older men and women. We analyzed the data from a cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire survey of community-dwelling older adults in Tokyo, who were aged 65+ and not on long-term care. The questionnaire included the 10-item self-administered dementia checklist (SDC), the WHO-5 Well-Being Scale, a question on their living arrangemen…
Depression and Quality of Life of People Accused of Witchcraft and Living in Alleged Witches’ Camps in Northern Ghana
In Northern and Northeast Ghana, women accused of witchcraft are banished from society to live in special locations designated “witches camps.” The processes leading to their banishment, admission, and living in the camps may affect their psychological wellbeing and quality of life. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of depression and assess the quality of life of 277 alleged witches in four camps located in these two regions in…
Evaluating Facilitators’ Experience Delivering a Stress-Reducing Intervention for Indigenous Women with and without HIV
Indigenous women encounter increased stressful life experiences such as socioeconomic insecurities as well as inequities in health services and outcomes. These stress inequities, which stem from the historical and ongoing effects of settler colonialism, also worsen health outcomes for those women living with HIV. As a part of a broader research project on the impacts of stress-reducing interventions for indigenous women, this study examines the e…
Perspectives of Indonesian Caregivers and Health Practitioners on Community-Based Mental Health Services
The establishment of integrated mental health services (IMHS) can downgrade a substantial gap in mental health psychotherapy. Although the hurdles of IMHS implementation are well-known, barely any research has been conducted on the viewpoint of satisfaction and expectations of caregivers for people with mental diseases (CPWMDs) towards IMHS. Identifying and analyzing the perspective of CPWMD as an IMHS service user is crucial for closing the gap …
Cultural Identity as a Determinant of Health among South Sudanese in Sydney, Australia
Background. The issue of identity has been widely explored among migrant populations in western countries in the context of cultural integrations and acculturations. However, there is less evidence on identity as a determinant of health and social wellbeing. This study reports on identity as a determinant of health among the South Sudanese community who arrived as refugees through an Australian humanitarian program in the early 2000s. Methods. A …
An Australian National Survey of First Nations Careers in Health Services
A strong First Nations health workforce is necessary to meet community needs, health rights, and health equity. This paper reports the findings from a national survey of Australia’s First Nations people employed in health services to identify enablers and barriers to career development, including variations by geographic location and organisation type. A cross-sectional online survey was undertaken across professions, roles, and jurisdictions. Th…
Working towards the Active Participation of Underrepresented Populations in Research
Research has historically focussed on participants who are relatively easy to access; those who have resources (time and literacy) to respond to surveys, who can travel, and are socially connected. Failure to meaningfully engage with intended participants and achieve representativeness in participation risks diminishing the applicability and impact of research findings to local contexts. Motivated by goals of social justice and health equity, thi…
Factors Predicting Compliance with the Uptake of the Third Covid-19 Vaccine among the Arab Minority in Israel
Between December 2020 and February 2021, Israel administered two doses of COVID-19 vaccine to >50% of its adult population. Nonetheless, due to declining immunity and the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant, the government offered a third COVID-19 vaccine dose in July 2021. Although the vaccine was shown to provide effective protection against severe illness, the compliance rate among the Arab minority remained low. The present study sought to i…
Essential Workers Balancing Life and Work during the Covid-19 Syndemic in Spain
Rationale. During the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain, healthcare workers have experienced productive work overload, as well as an increase in reproductive work, which has worsened their mental health. Little research has been done on nonhealthcare essential workers although they have been exposed to similar conditions. Objective. To explore the experiences of essential workers after the first year of the COVID-19 syndemic in Spain on work-life balanc…
Trauma-Informed Approaches in Primary Healthcare and Community Mental Healthcare
A trauma-informed approach is a framework for organisational (synonym system) change interventions that address the universal prevalence and impact of trauma. This mixed methods systematic review assessed the effects of trauma-informed approaches on psychological, behavioural, and health outcomes in health-care providers and adult patients in primary care and community mental healthcare. We searched five databases and grey literature and consulte…
Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial perspective. This study examines whether residents in more remote areas use more medical services offered by township healthcare centers (THCs), a main type of P…
A Qualitative Study Identifying a Rural Community’s Barriers and Facilitators to Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Families with Young Children
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events experienced before the age of 18 and include experiences of abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. Exposure to ACEs early in life is a risk factor for adverse physical and mental health outcomes in adulthood, which may lead to subsequent child abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. This study examined a rural community’s barriers and facilitators to addressing ACEs in families with…
Developing Self-Management of Type 1 Diabetes in the Australian School Setting
The International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes has identified school as a critical context for adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) who typically hold a fluctuating, though growing, amount of responsibility for diabetes self-management across this time. When parents use frequent autonomy-supportive communication to maintain a mutually agreeable sharing of responsibility for diabetes management with their adolescent, better outc…
Ten-Year Trends and Predictors of Unplanned Hospitalisation in Community-Dwelling Older People Receiving Home-Based Care
Older people prefer to remain living in their own home for as long as possible; however, many require support to do so through health and other care services provided in the home. This study aimed to explore the trends in usage of a home-based care service by older people in metropolitan Melbourne and factors associated with unplanned hospitalisations. This longitudinal study analysed episodes of home-based care for people aged ≥65 years between …
Perspectives of Food Insecurity and Service Delivery amongst Emergency Food Relief Clients in a Regional City in Victoria, Australia
This cross-sectional study examined the experiences of people accessing Emergency Food Relief (EFR) in the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, including determinants, impacts of food insecurity, and service delivery recommendations. The forty-one item survey examined demographics, food security status (six-item adult US-Household Food Security Survey Module), food acquisition, use of charitable food services, and self-rated health. Ad…
The Experience of Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service Staff Working with Mothers Who Have Had Their Children Removed
Parenting can be impacted by substance misuse, and children can be at risk of maltreatment, leading to their removal from their mothers. Successful treatment of substance abuse relies on these women gaining effective support from services. Previous research has demonstrated the impact working in this field can have on staff, including high staff turnover, vicarious trauma, and burnout. The present study further explores the experience of staff me…
Factors Explaining Program Sustainability
Even for successfully implemented programs, there is a great risk that new work practices are not sustained over time. Previous research has yielded a number of factors which influence program sustainability, but little is known about which factors are most important in different contexts or how these factors interact. This study tests a model of sustainability factors in a case where a program for structured needs assessment and documentation wa…
Structural Violence and the Social Determinants of Mental Health
Introduction: In 2017, a provincial Liberal government launched the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) to assess a promising approach to poverty reduction in Ontario, Canada. It was prematurely canceled by a subsequent Conservative government, despite election promises assuring that it would continue. The cancelation affected 4000 OBIP recipients. Objective: This study explored how participants’ lives were on the OBIP compared to their lives befor…
Deep Learning Assisted Neonatal Cry Classification via Support Vector Machine Models
Neonatal infants communicate with us through cries. The infant cry signals have distinct patterns depending on the purpose of the cries. Preprocessing, feature extraction, and feature selection need expert attention and take much effort in audio signals in recent days. In deep learning techniques, it automatically extracts and selects the most important features. For this, it requires an enormous amount of data for effective classification. This …
Ontology-Enabled Emotional Sentiment Analysis on Covid-19 Pandemic-Related Twitter Streams
The exponential growth of social media users has changed the dynamics of retrieving the potential information from user-generated content and transformed the paradigm of information-retrieval mechanism with the novel developments on the concept of “web of data”. In this regard, our proposed Ontology-Based Sentiment Analysis provides two novel approaches: First, the emotion extraction on tweets related to COVID-19 is carried out by a well-formed t…
Performance Evaluation of Regression Models for the Prediction of the Covid-19 Reproduction Rate
This paper aims to evaluate the performance of multiple non-linear regression techniques, such as support-vector regression (SVR), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), Random Forest Regressor, Gradient Boosting, and XGBOOST for COVID-19 reproduction rate prediction and to study the impact of feature selection algorithms and hyperparameter tuning on prediction. Sixteen features (for example, Total_cases_per_million and Total_deaths_per_million) related to si…
A Multistage Heterogeneous Stacking Ensemble Model for Augmented Infant Cry Classification
Understanding the reason for an infant's cry is the most difficult thing for parents. There might be various reasons behind the baby's cry. It may be due to hunger, pain, sleep, or diaper-related problems. The key concept behind identifying the reason behind the infant's cry is mainly based on the varying patterns of the crying audio. The audio file comprises many features, which are highly important in classifying the results. It is important to…
A Hybrid Framework for Intrusion Detection in Healthcare Systems Using Deep Learning
The unbounded increase in network traffic and user data has made it difficult for network intrusion detection systems to be abreast and perform well. Intrusion Systems are crucial in e-healthcare since the patients' medical records should be kept highly secure, confidential, and accurate. Any change in the actual patient data can lead to errors in the diagnosis and treatment. Most of the existing artificial intelligence-based systems are trained …
MRI brain tumor segmentation using residual Spatial Pyramid Pooling-powered 3D U-Net
Brain tumor diagnosis has been a lengthy process, and automation of a process such as brain tumor segmentation speeds up the timeline. U-Nets have been a commonly used solution for semantic segmentation, and it uses a downsampling-upsampling approach to segment tumors. U-Nets rely on residual connections to pass information during upsampling; however, an upsampling block only receives information from one downsampling block. This restricts the co…
A framework to distinguish healthy/cancer renal CT images using the fused deep features
Introduction: Cancer happening rates in humankind are gradually rising due to a variety of reasons, and sensible detection and management are essential to decrease the disease rates. The kidney is one of the vital organs in human physiology, and cancer in the kidney is a medical emergency and needs accurate diagnosis and well-organized management. Methods: The proposed work aims to develop a framework to classify renal computed tomography (CT) im…
Living Alone, Cognitive Function, and Well-Being of Japanese Older Men and Women
This study examined the interaction of living alone and cognitive decline in relation to the well-being of older men and women. We analyzed the data from a cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire survey of community-dwelling older adults in Tokyo, who were aged 65+ and not on long-term care. The questionnaire included the 10-item self-administered dementia checklist (SDC), the WHO-5 Well-Being Scale, a question on their living arrangemen…
Depression and Quality of Life of People Accused of Witchcraft and Living in Alleged Witches’ Camps in Northern Ghana
In Northern and Northeast Ghana, women accused of witchcraft are banished from society to live in special locations designated “witches camps.” The processes leading to their banishment, admission, and living in the camps may affect their psychological wellbeing and quality of life. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of depression and assess the quality of life of 277 alleged witches in four camps located in these two regions in…
Evaluating Facilitators’ Experience Delivering a Stress-Reducing Intervention for Indigenous Women with and without HIV
Indigenous women encounter increased stressful life experiences such as socioeconomic insecurities as well as inequities in health services and outcomes. These stress inequities, which stem from the historical and ongoing effects of settler colonialism, also worsen health outcomes for those women living with HIV. As a part of a broader research project on the impacts of stress-reducing interventions for indigenous women, this study examines the e…
Perspectives of Indonesian Caregivers and Health Practitioners on Community-Based Mental Health Services
The establishment of integrated mental health services (IMHS) can downgrade a substantial gap in mental health psychotherapy. Although the hurdles of IMHS implementation are well-known, barely any research has been conducted on the viewpoint of satisfaction and expectations of caregivers for people with mental diseases (CPWMDs) towards IMHS. Identifying and analyzing the perspective of CPWMD as an IMHS service user is crucial for closing the gap …
Cultural Identity as a Determinant of Health among South Sudanese in Sydney, Australia
Background. The issue of identity has been widely explored among migrant populations in western countries in the context of cultural integrations and acculturations. However, there is less evidence on identity as a determinant of health and social wellbeing. This study reports on identity as a determinant of health among the South Sudanese community who arrived as refugees through an Australian humanitarian program in the early 2000s. Methods. A …
An Australian National Survey of First Nations Careers in Health Services
A strong First Nations health workforce is necessary to meet community needs, health rights, and health equity. This paper reports the findings from a national survey of Australia’s First Nations people employed in health services to identify enablers and barriers to career development, including variations by geographic location and organisation type. A cross-sectional online survey was undertaken across professions, roles, and jurisdictions. Th…
Working towards the Active Participation of Underrepresented Populations in Research
Research has historically focussed on participants who are relatively easy to access; those who have resources (time and literacy) to respond to surveys, who can travel, and are socially connected. Failure to meaningfully engage with intended participants and achieve representativeness in participation risks diminishing the applicability and impact of research findings to local contexts. Motivated by goals of social justice and health equity, thi…
Factors Predicting Compliance with the Uptake of the Third Covid-19 Vaccine among the Arab Minority in Israel
Between December 2020 and February 2021, Israel administered two doses of COVID-19 vaccine to >50% of its adult population. Nonetheless, due to declining immunity and the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant, the government offered a third COVID-19 vaccine dose in July 2021. Although the vaccine was shown to provide effective protection against severe illness, the compliance rate among the Arab minority remained low. The present study sought to i…
Essential Workers Balancing Life and Work during the Covid-19 Syndemic in Spain
Rationale. During the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain, healthcare workers have experienced productive work overload, as well as an increase in reproductive work, which has worsened their mental health. Little research has been done on nonhealthcare essential workers although they have been exposed to similar conditions. Objective. To explore the experiences of essential workers after the first year of the COVID-19 syndemic in Spain on work-life balanc…
Trauma-Informed Approaches in Primary Healthcare and Community Mental Healthcare
A trauma-informed approach is a framework for organisational (synonym system) change interventions that address the universal prevalence and impact of trauma. This mixed methods systematic review assessed the effects of trauma-informed approaches on psychological, behavioural, and health outcomes in health-care providers and adult patients in primary care and community mental healthcare. We searched five databases and grey literature and consulte…
Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial perspective. This study examines whether residents in more remote areas use more medical services offered by township healthcare centers (THCs), a main type of P…
A Qualitative Study Identifying a Rural Community’s Barriers and Facilitators to Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Families with Young Children
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events experienced before the age of 18 and include experiences of abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. Exposure to ACEs early in life is a risk factor for adverse physical and mental health outcomes in adulthood, which may lead to subsequent child abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. This study examined a rural community’s barriers and facilitators to addressing ACEs in families with…
Developing Self-Management of Type 1 Diabetes in the Australian School Setting
The International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes has identified school as a critical context for adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) who typically hold a fluctuating, though growing, amount of responsibility for diabetes self-management across this time. When parents use frequent autonomy-supportive communication to maintain a mutually agreeable sharing of responsibility for diabetes management with their adolescent, better outc…
Ten-Year Trends and Predictors of Unplanned Hospitalisation in Community-Dwelling Older People Receiving Home-Based Care
Older people prefer to remain living in their own home for as long as possible; however, many require support to do so through health and other care services provided in the home. This study aimed to explore the trends in usage of a home-based care service by older people in metropolitan Melbourne and factors associated with unplanned hospitalisations. This longitudinal study analysed episodes of home-based care for people aged ≥65 years between …
Perspectives of Food Insecurity and Service Delivery amongst Emergency Food Relief Clients in a Regional City in Victoria, Australia
This cross-sectional study examined the experiences of people accessing Emergency Food Relief (EFR) in the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, including determinants, impacts of food insecurity, and service delivery recommendations. The forty-one item survey examined demographics, food security status (six-item adult US-Household Food Security Survey Module), food acquisition, use of charitable food services, and self-rated health. Ad…
The Experience of Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service Staff Working with Mothers Who Have Had Their Children Removed
Parenting can be impacted by substance misuse, and children can be at risk of maltreatment, leading to their removal from their mothers. Successful treatment of substance abuse relies on these women gaining effective support from services. Previous research has demonstrated the impact working in this field can have on staff, including high staff turnover, vicarious trauma, and burnout. The present study further explores the experience of staff me…
Factors Explaining Program Sustainability
Even for successfully implemented programs, there is a great risk that new work practices are not sustained over time. Previous research has yielded a number of factors which influence program sustainability, but little is known about which factors are most important in different contexts or how these factors interact. This study tests a model of sustainability factors in a case where a program for structured needs assessment and documentation wa…
The Impacts and Vulnerabilities for People Living with Spinal Cord Injury and Their Service Systems of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Queensland, Australia
As part of a larger study examining the perceived impacts of health system stress in Queensland, Australia, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the experiences and perspectives of a sample of people with spinal cord injury (SCI) and critical stakeholders to identify secondary complications, access concerns, and potential solutions in the context of the pandemic. This study utilised a multimethods qualitative design. Thirty-four p…
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