Imasha Upulini Jayasinghe

Dados Biográficos

ID7987341
NOMEImasha Upulini Jayasinghe
PRENOMESImasha Upulini
SOBRENOMEJayasinghe
ASSINATURAJAYASINGHE I U
AFILIAÇÕESRajarata University of Sri Lanka
ORCID0000-0002-2251-0998
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS3
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR3
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • Incorporating early pregnancy mental health screening and management into routine maternal care

    Open AccessThilini Chanchala Agampodi, Gayani Amarasinghe et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Early identification of mental health problems in pregnancy in low-income and middle-income countries is scarcely reported. We present the experience of a programme assimilating screening and management of antenatal anxiety and depression in conjunction with the Rajarata Pregnancy Cohort, in Sri Lanka. We adopted a two-stage screening approach to identify the symptoms and the reasons for anxiety and depression. Pregnant women (n=3074), less than …

  • Serum creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in early pregnancy and changes during the pregnancy

    Open AccessSuneth Agampodi, Thilini Chanchala Agampodi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Renal functions in pregnancy undergo rapid changes, and the thresholds for normal values are a major research gap and are still debatable. The lack of prospective population-based studies with early pregnancy recruitment hampered the decision-making process on the best thresholds to be used in clinical practice. We present the serum creatinine (sCr) and sCr-based estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR) in early pregnancy with changes over th…

  • A self‐applied valid scale for rapid tracking of household food insecurity among pregnant women in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessThilini Chanchala Agampodi, Amber Hromi‐Fiedler et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Rapid household food insecurity (HFI) tracking has been identified as a priority in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We report the validation of the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale (Escala Latinoamericana y Caribena de Seguridad Alimentaria [ELCSA]) among pregnant women in Sri Lanka. The eight-item adult version of the ELCSA was translated from English to Sinhala and Tamil. Cognitive testing (on 10 pregnant…