Karuthan Chinna
Biographic Data
| ID | 2769542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karuthan Chinna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karuthan |
| FAMILY NAME | Chinna |
| SIGNATURE | CHINNA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Taylor's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2035-344X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Development of a clinical algorithm-based scoring system to diagnose smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Sabah, Malaysia using the modified Delphi method
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health threat, particularly in resource-constrained settings where delayed diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary TB (SNPTB) is common due to limited access to rapid molecular diagnostics. We aimed to develop a clinical algorithm-based scoring system to aid the diagnosis of SNPTB among symptomatic patients in Sabah, Malaysia. Methods: We conducted a modified Delphi process between January and Ju…
Physical Activity and Its Relationship With National‐Based Examination Results Among Adolescents
INTRODUCTION: This study investigated the longitudinal relationship between self-reported physical activity and national examination results among adolescents in an upper-middle-income country. METHODS: This study engaged in a secondary data analysis derived from a closed prospective cohort consisting of 579 students, who were recruited at the age of 13 in 2012 and followed up at ages 15 (2014) and 17 (2016) as part of the Malaysian Health and Ad…
Scrutinizing the impact of two self-regulation policies on unhealthy food marketing in children’s popular television in Malaysia
BACKGROUND: Regulating unhealthy food marketing is critical as it is a recognized driver of childhood obesity. Two voluntary self-regulatory policies governing food advertising in the media were introduced in Malaysia in 2008 and 2013. OBJECTIVES: To assess food advertising on Malaysian children's popular television channels across a decade using the standardized INFORMAS protocol. METHODS: The main dataset was collected cross-sectionally from 20…
Urbanisation and its associated factors affecting human gut microbiota
CONTEXT: The continuous rise in urbanisation and its associated factors has been reflected in the structure of the human gut ecosystem. OBJECTIVE: The main focus of this review is to discuss and summarise the major risk factors associated with urbanisation that affect human gut microbiota thus affecting human health. METHODS: Multiple medical literature databases, namely PubMed, Google, Google Scholar, and Web of Science were used to find relevan…
Reliability of Post-Mortem Computed Tomography in Measuring Foramen Magnum Dimensions
Introduction: Reliability of foramen magnum dimensions using post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) to obtain standardized measurements for biological profiling with interest in sexual dimorphism needs to be evaluated prior to a larger scale population-based study. Method: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of 40 Malaysian adult decedent PMCT skulls. Standardized morphometric evaluation of two foramen magnum parameters, the foramen ma…
Predictors for detecting chronic respiratory diseases in community surveys
BACKGROUND: Our previous scoping review revealed limitations and inconsistencies in population surveys of chronic respiratory disease. Informed by this review, we piloted a cross-sectional survey of adults in four South/South-East Asian low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) to assess survey feasibility and identify variables that predicted asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS: We administered relevant translations of …
Chronic respiratory disease surveys in adults in low- and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) contribute significantly towards the global burden of disease, but the true prevalence and burden of these conditions in adults is unknown in the majority of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to identify strategies - in particular the definitions, study designs, sampling frames, instruments, and outcomes - used to conduct prevalence surveys for CRDs in LMICs. The findings will infor…
Coping with Covid-19
COVID-19 has speedily immersed the globe with 72+ million cases and 1.64 million deaths, in a span of around one year, disturbing and deteriorating almost every sphere of life. This study investigates how students in Pakistan have coped with the COVID-19. Zung's self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) was used for measuring anxiety and the coping strategies were measured on four strategies i.e., seeking social support, humanitarian, acceptance, and menta…
Is malnutrition a determining factor of health-related quality of life in hemodialysis patients? A cross-sectional design examining relationships with a comprehensive assessment of nutritional status
Prevalence and Associated Factors of the Severity of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Among Low-Income Community-Dwelling Adults in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Growing prevalence of mental illnesses and the role they play in the global disease burden is an emerging public health issue. The prevalence of depression and anxiety is on the rise in Malaysia. Low-income urban communities are among the key affected populations with regards to mental health problems. This cross-sectional study was aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of depression, anxiety and stress, and their associated factors amon…
Clustering and Tracking the Stability of Biological CVD Risk Factors in Adolescents
Background: Cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors tend to cluster and progress from adolescence to young adulthood. Reliable and meaningful clustering of CVD risk factors is essential to circumvent loss of information. Tracking adverse and high-risk profiles of adolescents is hoped to curb CVD progression later in life. The study aims to investigate the clustering of biological CVD risk factor among adolescents in Malaysia and the transitions between…
Anxiety Level of University Students During Covid-19 in Saudi Arabia
COVID-19 is the worst pandemic of this millennium, and it is considered to be the "public enemy number one." This catastrophe has changed the way we live in the blink of an eye. Not only has it threatened our existence and health status, but the damage associated with it could equally affect our economic, social, and educational systems. The focus of this study was on the anxiety level of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi …
Attitudes Toward Patient Safety among Medical Students in Malaysia
The biggest challenge in moving toward a safer healthcare system is patient safety culture-that is, the prevention of harm to patients. Safe medical practices can prevent doing harm to the patients. For this, healthcare professionals must have good attitudes toward patient safety. Medical education plays an important role in promoting patient safety and patient safety attitudes. A study was conducted among medical students in Malaysia to assess t…
Understanding How Nutrition Literacy Links to Dietary Adherence in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis
Dietary non-adherence is pervasive in the hemodialysis (HD) population. Health literacy is a plausible predictor of dietary adherence in HD patients, but its putative mechanism is scarcely studied. Thus, this study aimed to establish the causal model linking nutrition literacy to dietary adherence in the HD population. This was a multi-centre, cross-sectional study, involving 218 randomly selected multi-ethnic HD patients from nine dialysis centr…
Psychological Impact of Covid-19 and Lockdown among University Students in Malaysia
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown has taken the world by storm. This study examines its impact on the anxiety level of university students in Malaysia during the peak of the crisis and the pertinent characteristics affecting their anxiety. A cross-sectional online survey, using Zung's self-rating anxiety questionnaire was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. Out of the 983 respondents, 20.4%, 6.6%, and 2.8% experienced minima…
Reading the mind of children in response to food advertising
This study highlights TVFA as a powerful medium predisposing the mind of children to non-core foods through appealing TV commercials, promoting purchase request and generating unhealthy food preferences in early childhood
Validation of the Malay version of the Quality of Life Questionnaire of the European Foundation for Osteoporosis (Qualeffo-41) in Malaysia
Test–retest reliability of HeartQoL and its comparability to the MacNew heart disease health-related quality of life questionnaire
Obesogenic television food advertising to children in Malaysia
BACKGROUND: Food advertising on television (TV) is well known to influence children's purchasing requests and models negative food habits in Western countries. Advertising of unhealthy foods is a contributor to the obesogenic environment that is a key driver of rising rates of childhood obesity. Children in developing countries are more at risk of being targeted by such advertising, as there is a huge potential for market growth of unhealthy food…
An exploratory study on risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among adolescents in Malaysia
Our results demonstrated that adolescents from the rural area are at higher risk of NCDs compared to their urban counterpart. Tailor made public health interventions are highly recommended for adolescents as this may minimise the dreadful NCD burden in adulthood and health disparity between the rural and urban in the near future
Prevalence and Associated Factors of the Severity of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Among Low-Income Community-Dwelling Adults in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Growing prevalence of mental illnesses and the role they play in the global disease burden is an emerging public health issue. The prevalence of depression and anxiety is on the rise in Malaysia. Low-income urban communities are among the key affected populations with regards to mental health problems. This cross-sectional study was aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of depression, anxiety and stress, and their associated factors amon…
Obesogenic television food advertising to children in Malaysia
BACKGROUND: Food advertising on television (TV) is well known to influence children's purchasing requests and models negative food habits in Western countries. Advertising of unhealthy foods is a contributor to the obesogenic environment that is a key driver of rising rates of childhood obesity. Children in developing countries are more at risk of being targeted by such advertising, as there is a huge potential for market growth of unhealthy food…
An exploratory study on risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among adolescents in Malaysia
Our results demonstrated that adolescents from the rural area are at higher risk of NCDs compared to their urban counterpart. Tailor made public health interventions are highly recommended for adolescents as this may minimise the dreadful NCD burden in adulthood and health disparity between the rural and urban in the near future
Reading the mind of children in response to food advertising
This study highlights TVFA as a powerful medium predisposing the mind of children to non-core foods through appealing TV commercials, promoting purchase request and generating unhealthy food preferences in early childhood
Validation of the Malay version of the Quality of Life Questionnaire of the European Foundation for Osteoporosis (Qualeffo-41) in Malaysia
Test–retest reliability of HeartQoL and its comparability to the MacNew heart disease health-related quality of life questionnaire
Clustering and Tracking the Stability of Biological CVD Risk Factors in Adolescents
Background: Cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors tend to cluster and progress from adolescence to young adulthood. Reliable and meaningful clustering of CVD risk factors is essential to circumvent loss of information. Tracking adverse and high-risk profiles of adolescents is hoped to curb CVD progression later in life. The study aims to investigate the clustering of biological CVD risk factor among adolescents in Malaysia and the transitions between…
Anxiety Level of University Students During Covid-19 in Saudi Arabia
COVID-19 is the worst pandemic of this millennium, and it is considered to be the "public enemy number one." This catastrophe has changed the way we live in the blink of an eye. Not only has it threatened our existence and health status, but the damage associated with it could equally affect our economic, social, and educational systems. The focus of this study was on the anxiety level of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi …
Attitudes Toward Patient Safety among Medical Students in Malaysia
The biggest challenge in moving toward a safer healthcare system is patient safety culture-that is, the prevention of harm to patients. Safe medical practices can prevent doing harm to the patients. For this, healthcare professionals must have good attitudes toward patient safety. Medical education plays an important role in promoting patient safety and patient safety attitudes. A study was conducted among medical students in Malaysia to assess t…
Understanding How Nutrition Literacy Links to Dietary Adherence in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis
Dietary non-adherence is pervasive in the hemodialysis (HD) population. Health literacy is a plausible predictor of dietary adherence in HD patients, but its putative mechanism is scarcely studied. Thus, this study aimed to establish the causal model linking nutrition literacy to dietary adherence in the HD population. This was a multi-centre, cross-sectional study, involving 218 randomly selected multi-ethnic HD patients from nine dialysis centr…
Psychological Impact of Covid-19 and Lockdown among University Students in Malaysia
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown has taken the world by storm. This study examines its impact on the anxiety level of university students in Malaysia during the peak of the crisis and the pertinent characteristics affecting their anxiety. A cross-sectional online survey, using Zung's self-rating anxiety questionnaire was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. Out of the 983 respondents, 20.4%, 6.6%, and 2.8% experienced minima…
Predictors for detecting chronic respiratory diseases in community surveys
BACKGROUND: Our previous scoping review revealed limitations and inconsistencies in population surveys of chronic respiratory disease. Informed by this review, we piloted a cross-sectional survey of adults in four South/South-East Asian low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) to assess survey feasibility and identify variables that predicted asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS: We administered relevant translations of …
Chronic respiratory disease surveys in adults in low- and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) contribute significantly towards the global burden of disease, but the true prevalence and burden of these conditions in adults is unknown in the majority of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to identify strategies - in particular the definitions, study designs, sampling frames, instruments, and outcomes - used to conduct prevalence surveys for CRDs in LMICs. The findings will infor…
Coping with Covid-19
COVID-19 has speedily immersed the globe with 72+ million cases and 1.64 million deaths, in a span of around one year, disturbing and deteriorating almost every sphere of life. This study investigates how students in Pakistan have coped with the COVID-19. Zung's self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) was used for measuring anxiety and the coping strategies were measured on four strategies i.e., seeking social support, humanitarian, acceptance, and menta…
Is malnutrition a determining factor of health-related quality of life in hemodialysis patients? A cross-sectional design examining relationships with a comprehensive assessment of nutritional status
Prevalence and Associated Factors of the Severity of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Among Low-Income Community-Dwelling Adults in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Growing prevalence of mental illnesses and the role they play in the global disease burden is an emerging public health issue. The prevalence of depression and anxiety is on the rise in Malaysia. Low-income urban communities are among the key affected populations with regards to mental health problems. This cross-sectional study was aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of depression, anxiety and stress, and their associated factors amon…
Urbanisation and its associated factors affecting human gut microbiota
CONTEXT: The continuous rise in urbanisation and its associated factors has been reflected in the structure of the human gut ecosystem. OBJECTIVE: The main focus of this review is to discuss and summarise the major risk factors associated with urbanisation that affect human gut microbiota thus affecting human health. METHODS: Multiple medical literature databases, namely PubMed, Google, Google Scholar, and Web of Science were used to find relevan…
Reliability of Post-Mortem Computed Tomography in Measuring Foramen Magnum Dimensions
Introduction: Reliability of foramen magnum dimensions using post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) to obtain standardized measurements for biological profiling with interest in sexual dimorphism needs to be evaluated prior to a larger scale population-based study. Method: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of 40 Malaysian adult decedent PMCT skulls. Standardized morphometric evaluation of two foramen magnum parameters, the foramen ma…
Physical Activity and Its Relationship With National‐Based Examination Results Among Adolescents
INTRODUCTION: This study investigated the longitudinal relationship between self-reported physical activity and national examination results among adolescents in an upper-middle-income country. METHODS: This study engaged in a secondary data analysis derived from a closed prospective cohort consisting of 579 students, who were recruited at the age of 13 in 2012 and followed up at ages 15 (2014) and 17 (2016) as part of the Malaysian Health and Ad…
Scrutinizing the impact of two self-regulation policies on unhealthy food marketing in children’s popular television in Malaysia
BACKGROUND: Regulating unhealthy food marketing is critical as it is a recognized driver of childhood obesity. Two voluntary self-regulatory policies governing food advertising in the media were introduced in Malaysia in 2008 and 2013. OBJECTIVES: To assess food advertising on Malaysian children's popular television channels across a decade using the standardized INFORMAS protocol. METHODS: The main dataset was collected cross-sectionally from 20…
Development of a clinical algorithm-based scoring system to diagnose smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Sabah, Malaysia using the modified Delphi method
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health threat, particularly in resource-constrained settings where delayed diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary TB (SNPTB) is common due to limited access to rapid molecular diagnostics. We aimed to develop a clinical algorithm-based scoring system to aid the diagnosis of SNPTB among symptomatic patients in Sabah, Malaysia. Methods: We conducted a modified Delphi process between January and Ju…
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Cross-sectional study (5 works) · Demography (5 works)