Bhim P Shrestha

Biographic Data

ID3601523
NAMEBhim P Shrestha
GIVEN NAMESBhim P
FAMILY NAMEShrestha
SIGNATURESHRESTHA B P
AFFILIATIONSMother and Infant Research Activities
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal

    Open AccessLu Gram, Joanna Morrison et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2019

    Participatory learning and action women's groups (PLA) have proven effective in reducing neonatal mortality in rural, high-mortality settings, but their impacts on women's agency in the household remain unknown. Cash transfer programmes have also long targeted female beneficiaries in the belief that this empowers women. Drawing on data from 1309 pregnant women in a four-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial in Nepal, we found little evidence fo…

  • Formative qualitative research to develop community-based interventions addressing low birth weight in the plains of Nepal

    Open AccessJoanna Morrison, Sophiya Dulal et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2018

    Objective To explore the factors affecting intra-household food allocation practices to inform the development of interventions to prevent low birth weight in rural plains of Nepal. Design Qualitative methodology using purposive sampling to explore the barriers and facilitating factors to improved maternal nutrition. Setting Rural Dhanusha District, Nepal. Subjects We purposively sampled twenty-five young daughters-in-law from marginalised groups…

  • Smartphone tool to collect repeated 24 h dietary recall data in Nepal

    Open AccessHelen Harris–Fry, B James Beard et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2018

    Objective To outline the development of a smartphone-based tool to collect thrice-repeated 24 h dietary recall data in rural Nepal, and to describe energy intakes, common errors and researchers’ experiences using the tool. Design We designed a novel tool to collect multi-pass 24 h dietary recalls in rural Nepal by combining the use of a CommCare questionnaire on smartphones, a paper form, a QR (quick response)-coded list of foods and a photograph…

  • Experiences in running a complex electronic data capture system using mobile phones in a large-scale population trial in southern Nepal

    Open AccessSarah Style, B James Beard et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    The increasing availability and capabilities of mobile phones make them a feasible means of data collection. Electronic Data Capture (EDC) systems have been used widely for public health monitoring and surveillance activities, but documentation of their use in complicated research studies requiring multiple systems is limited. This paper shares our experiences of designing and implementing a complex multi-component EDC system for a community-base…

  • Socioeconomic determinants of growth in a longitudinal study in Nepal

    Open AccessDelan Devakumar, Dalvir Kular et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2017

    Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with childhood anthropometry, but little is known about how it is associated with tissue growth and body composition. To investigate this, we looked at components of SES at birth with growth in early and mid-childhood, and body composition in a longitudinal study in Nepal. The exposure variables (material assets, land ownership, and maternal education) were quantified from questionnaire data before birth. …

  • Validating an Agency-based Tool for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Complex Public Health Trial in Rural Nepal

    Open AccessLu Gram, Joanna Morrison et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2017Cited by: 11References: 80

    Despite the rising popularity of indicators of women's empowerment in global development programmes, little work has been done on the validity of existing measures of such a complex concept. We present a mixed methods validation of the use of the Relative Autonomy Index for measuring Amartya Sen's notion of agency freedom in rural Nepal. Analysis of think-aloud interviews (n = 7) indicated adequate respondent understanding of questionnaire items,…

  • Development and validation of a photographic food atlas for portion size assessment in the southern plains of Nepal

    Open AccessHelen Harris–Fry, Puskar Raj Paudel et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2016

    Objective To develop and validate a photographic food atlas of common foods for dietary assessment in southern Nepal. Design We created a life-sized photographic atlas of forty locally prepared foods. Between March and June 2014, data collectors weighed portion sizes that respondents consumed during one mealtime and then a different data collector revisited the household the next day to record respondents’ estimations of their previous day’s inta…

  • Care for perinatal illness in rural Nepal

    Open AccessNatasha Mesko, David Osrin et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2003

    BACKGROUND: Maternal, perinatal and neonatal mortality rates remain high in rural areas of developing countries. Most deliveries take place at home and care-seeking behaviour is often delayed. We report on a combined quantitative and qualitative study of care seeking obstacles and practices relating to perinatal illness in rural Makwanpur district, Nepal, with particular emphasis on consultation strategies. METHODS: The analysis included a survey…