Suruchi Sood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5776343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suruchi Sood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suruchi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sood |
| SIGNATURE | SOOD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0958-3348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Examining the impact of dance/movement therapy on empathy, peer relationships, and cultural self-efficacy in middle school
Despite efforts to promote inclusivity in schools, ethnic bullying is a pervasive issue. Recent studies have highlighted the potential of empathy and cultural self efficacy within cross-cultural friendships to mitigate ethnic bullying. Violence prevention programs in the United States rely on didactic approaches and few include embodied approaches. Our goal was to examine the impact of dance/movement therapy (DMT) on empathy, peer relationships, …
Impact of a social and behavior change campaign and volunteer malaria tester program on malaria care seeking among gold miners in Guyana
Between 2000 and 2019, malaria cases witnessed a global decline. Recent WHO data indicates a reversal of these gains, threatening the goal to eliminate malaria by 2030. In Guyana, malaria is concentrated in remote regions and among itinerant gold miners who have limited access to malaria health services and will thus often self-medicate or delay care. The government implemented a volunteer malaria tester (VMT) program to increase access to malari…
A review of strategies and levels of community engagement in strengths-based and needs-based health communication interventions
Background: Community engagement is key in health communication interventions that seek to incorporate community voices in their planning and implementation. Understanding what approaches and strategies are currently being used can help tailor programs in different social and cultural contexts. This review explores needs-based and strengths-based approaches and consensus and conflict strategies in community-based global health communications prog…
Combining Theory and Research to Validate a Social Norms Framework Addressing Female Genital Mutilation
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a harmful practice with no benefits and considerable harm to girls and women who undergo it. In 2016, the United Nations Joint Program to Eliminate FGM, funded the development and subsequent validation of a monitoring and evaluation framework to understand the relationship between social norms and practicing FGM. Evidence on the framework was gathered through a pilot study in Ethiopia. This paper uses cross-sect…
A Systematic Review of Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management (MHHM) as a Human Right for Adolescents Girls
What Works to Address Violence Against Children (VAC) in and Around Schools
Violence against children (VAC) is a pervasive, global issue with both short- and long-term health, social, and economic consequences. This systematic review sought to identify best practices for designing and implementing social and behavior change communication (SBCC) programs targeting VAC in and around schools. Combinations of key search terms within five domains were entered into four databases: PubMed Central, Google Scholar, Sociological A…
From Salt to Stroke—Evaluation of a Media Campaign for Sodium Reduction in Philadelphia
Excess dietary sodium contributes to the burden of chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease and stroke. Media-based health education campaigns are one strategy to raise awareness among populations at greater risk for stroke, including African Americans. During 2014–2015, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health conducted a health education campaign using radio, print news, and transit ads, to promote awareness of the link between die…
Measuring Discriminatory Social Norms Against Children With Disabilities to Improve Communication-Based Programs
In the Europe and Central Asia region, there are at least five million children diagnosed with some type of disability. These children are likely to be subjected to stigmatization and marginalization, which can lead to discrimination and reduction in access to social services. A pilot study was developed to examine factors affecting the treatment of children with disabilities from a holistic, systematic perspective. Stratified by the social ecolo…
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a complex harmful traditional practice associated with prevalent social norms. Yet, there is a lack of social norms focused conceptual and measurement frameworks to assess the impact of social and behavior change communication-based interventions towards ending the practice of FGM. This manuscript describes the development of an evidence-based macro framework to measure FGM behavior and social norms change over …
Measuring the effectiveness of communication programming on menstrual health and hygiene management (MHM) social norms among adolescent girls in India
This manuscript has two objectives: (1) operationalise and measure the fit of two theory-based measures of social norms and (2) examine the relationship between a social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) initiative, social norms, and menstrual health and hygiene management (MHM) among rural adolescent girls in Uttar Pradesh, India. A population-based, case-comparison design was utilised. Interviews were conducted ( n = 2212) using quantit…
What are the psychometric properties of a menstrual hygiene management scale
MHM is multi-dimensional construct comprising of behaviors which were time-bound by menstruation (menstrual health) and behaviors not time-bound by menstruation (hygiene management). Based on these results, the author recommends that MHHM is used as an acronym in the future and proposes a revised definition for MHHM
How does a Social and Behavioral Change Communication Intervention Predict Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management
Future programs should use SBCC to improve MHHM behavior but involve families, peers and community members to a greater extent in order to improve attitudes towards menstruation, attitudes towards restrictions, attitudes towards absorbent use and reduce restrictions within the community
Increasing equity, affirming the power of narrative and expanding dialogue
This article provides a critical summary and review of the presentations and discussions that took place during the Fifth International Conference on Entertainment Education (EE) in New Delhi, India, in November 2011, in an attempt to understand what it tells us about the state of the field and where it is going. This gathering of EE scholars, practitioners, activists, donors, government policymakers, media producers, artists, writers and perform…
Come Gather Around Together’
It has been shown that educational messages via mass media based entertainment can improve family planning behavior. It is likely that audience participation in the form of listening groups may enhance the impact of these programs. In Fulbari (Nepal), a partnership between local government agencies, community leaders, audience members and program staff led to the launch of listening groups complementing a mass media family planning initiative. Us…
Audience Involvement and Entertainment?Education
Journal Article Audience Involvement and Entertainment-Education Get access Suruchi Sood Suruchi Sood 1Suruchi Sood is a program evaluation officer II at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1 May 2002, Pages 153–172, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2002.tb00264.x Published: 10 January 2006
Entertainment-Education and Social Change
Most past studies of entertainment-education programs have not provided an adequate theoretical explanation of the process through which community members enact system-level changes as a result of exposure to entertainment-education media message. Here we study the effects of an entertainment-education radio soap opera by means of an observational case study in one Indian village. We investigate the paradoxes, contradictions, and audience members…
Effects of an Entertainment‐education Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning Behavior in Tanzania
An entertainment‐education radio soap opera introduced in Tanzania in 1993 was evaluated by means of afield experimental design in which the radio program was broadcast by seven mainland stations of Radio Tanzania. An eighth station broadcast alternative programming from 1993 to 1995, its listenership serving as a comparison area in which contemporaneous changes in family planning adoption were measured. The soap opera was subsequently broadcast …
Effects of an Entertainment‐education Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning Behavior in Tanzania
An entertainment‐education radio soap opera introduced in Tanzania in 1993 was evaluated by means of afield experimental design in which the radio program was broadcast by seven mainland stations of Radio Tanzania. An eighth station broadcast alternative programming from 1993 to 1995, its listenership serving as a comparison area in which contemporaneous changes in family planning adoption were measured. The soap opera was subsequently broadcast …
Audience Involvement and Entertainment?Education
Journal Article Audience Involvement and Entertainment-Education Get access Suruchi Sood Suruchi Sood 1Suruchi Sood is a program evaluation officer II at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1 May 2002, Pages 153–172, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2002.tb00264.x Published: 10 January 2006
Come Gather Around Together’
It has been shown that educational messages via mass media based entertainment can improve family planning behavior. It is likely that audience participation in the form of listening groups may enhance the impact of these programs. In Fulbari (Nepal), a partnership between local government agencies, community leaders, audience members and program staff led to the launch of listening groups complementing a mass media family planning initiative. Us…
Increasing equity, affirming the power of narrative and expanding dialogue
This article provides a critical summary and review of the presentations and discussions that took place during the Fifth International Conference on Entertainment Education (EE) in New Delhi, India, in November 2011, in an attempt to understand what it tells us about the state of the field and where it is going. This gathering of EE scholars, practitioners, activists, donors, government policymakers, media producers, artists, writers and perform…
Effects of an Entertainment‐education Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning Behavior in Tanzania
An entertainment‐education radio soap opera introduced in Tanzania in 1993 was evaluated by means of afield experimental design in which the radio program was broadcast by seven mainland stations of Radio Tanzania. An eighth station broadcast alternative programming from 1993 to 1995, its listenership serving as a comparison area in which contemporaneous changes in family planning adoption were measured. The soap opera was subsequently broadcast …
Entertainment-Education and Social Change
Most past studies of entertainment-education programs have not provided an adequate theoretical explanation of the process through which community members enact system-level changes as a result of exposure to entertainment-education media message. Here we study the effects of an entertainment-education radio soap opera by means of an observational case study in one Indian village. We investigate the paradoxes, contradictions, and audience members…
Audience Involvement and Entertainment?Education
Journal Article Audience Involvement and Entertainment-Education Get access Suruchi Sood Suruchi Sood 1Suruchi Sood is a program evaluation officer II at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1 May 2002, Pages 153–172, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2002.tb00264.x Published: 10 January 2006
Come Gather Around Together’
It has been shown that educational messages via mass media based entertainment can improve family planning behavior. It is likely that audience participation in the form of listening groups may enhance the impact of these programs. In Fulbari (Nepal), a partnership between local government agencies, community leaders, audience members and program staff led to the launch of listening groups complementing a mass media family planning initiative. Us…
Increasing equity, affirming the power of narrative and expanding dialogue
This article provides a critical summary and review of the presentations and discussions that took place during the Fifth International Conference on Entertainment Education (EE) in New Delhi, India, in November 2011, in an attempt to understand what it tells us about the state of the field and where it is going. This gathering of EE scholars, practitioners, activists, donors, government policymakers, media producers, artists, writers and perform…
How does a Social and Behavioral Change Communication Intervention Predict Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management
Future programs should use SBCC to improve MHHM behavior but involve families, peers and community members to a greater extent in order to improve attitudes towards menstruation, attitudes towards restrictions, attitudes towards absorbent use and reduce restrictions within the community
Measuring Discriminatory Social Norms Against Children With Disabilities to Improve Communication-Based Programs
In the Europe and Central Asia region, there are at least five million children diagnosed with some type of disability. These children are likely to be subjected to stigmatization and marginalization, which can lead to discrimination and reduction in access to social services. A pilot study was developed to examine factors affecting the treatment of children with disabilities from a holistic, systematic perspective. Stratified by the social ecolo…
Act
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a complex harmful traditional practice associated with prevalent social norms. Yet, there is a lack of social norms focused conceptual and measurement frameworks to assess the impact of social and behavior change communication-based interventions towards ending the practice of FGM. This manuscript describes the development of an evidence-based macro framework to measure FGM behavior and social norms change over …
Measuring the effectiveness of communication programming on menstrual health and hygiene management (MHM) social norms among adolescent girls in India
This manuscript has two objectives: (1) operationalise and measure the fit of two theory-based measures of social norms and (2) examine the relationship between a social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) initiative, social norms, and menstrual health and hygiene management (MHM) among rural adolescent girls in Uttar Pradesh, India. A population-based, case-comparison design was utilised. Interviews were conducted ( n = 2212) using quantit…
What are the psychometric properties of a menstrual hygiene management scale
MHM is multi-dimensional construct comprising of behaviors which were time-bound by menstruation (menstrual health) and behaviors not time-bound by menstruation (hygiene management). Based on these results, the author recommends that MHHM is used as an acronym in the future and proposes a revised definition for MHHM
From Salt to Stroke—Evaluation of a Media Campaign for Sodium Reduction in Philadelphia
Excess dietary sodium contributes to the burden of chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease and stroke. Media-based health education campaigns are one strategy to raise awareness among populations at greater risk for stroke, including African Americans. During 2014–2015, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health conducted a health education campaign using radio, print news, and transit ads, to promote awareness of the link between die…
Combining Theory and Research to Validate a Social Norms Framework Addressing Female Genital Mutilation
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a harmful practice with no benefits and considerable harm to girls and women who undergo it. In 2016, the United Nations Joint Program to Eliminate FGM, funded the development and subsequent validation of a monitoring and evaluation framework to understand the relationship between social norms and practicing FGM. Evidence on the framework was gathered through a pilot study in Ethiopia. This paper uses cross-sect…
A Systematic Review of Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management (MHHM) as a Human Right for Adolescents Girls
What Works to Address Violence Against Children (VAC) in and Around Schools
Violence against children (VAC) is a pervasive, global issue with both short- and long-term health, social, and economic consequences. This systematic review sought to identify best practices for designing and implementing social and behavior change communication (SBCC) programs targeting VAC in and around schools. Combinations of key search terms within five domains were entered into four databases: PubMed Central, Google Scholar, Sociological A…
Examining the impact of dance/movement therapy on empathy, peer relationships, and cultural self-efficacy in middle school
Despite efforts to promote inclusivity in schools, ethnic bullying is a pervasive issue. Recent studies have highlighted the potential of empathy and cultural self efficacy within cross-cultural friendships to mitigate ethnic bullying. Violence prevention programs in the United States rely on didactic approaches and few include embodied approaches. Our goal was to examine the impact of dance/movement therapy (DMT) on empathy, peer relationships, …
Impact of a social and behavior change campaign and volunteer malaria tester program on malaria care seeking among gold miners in Guyana
Between 2000 and 2019, malaria cases witnessed a global decline. Recent WHO data indicates a reversal of these gains, threatening the goal to eliminate malaria by 2030. In Guyana, malaria is concentrated in remote regions and among itinerant gold miners who have limited access to malaria health services and will thus often self-medicate or delay care. The government implemented a volunteer malaria tester (VMT) program to increase access to malari…
A review of strategies and levels of community engagement in strengths-based and needs-based health communication interventions
Background: Community engagement is key in health communication interventions that seek to incorporate community voices in their planning and implementation. Understanding what approaches and strategies are currently being used can help tailor programs in different social and cultural contexts. This review explores needs-based and strengths-based approaches and consensus and conflict strategies in community-based global health communications prog…
Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Entertainment (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Media Influence and Health (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)