Samjhana Shakya
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Also affiliated: Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre (2013); Institute of Medicine (2014)
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Samjhana Shakya's research interests include public health interventions, particularly weight management programs, and surgical outcomes. She has investigated the adoption of weight loss maintenance trials in rural African American communities, as documented in her publication "Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)" (2018). Shakya has also examined the sustainability of nutrition and physical activity programs and explored the effectiveness of telemedicine in improving diabetes care in rural Nepal. Her work extends to surgical research, including a retrospective study on the trends and outcomes of laparoscopic appendectomy for complicated appendicitis in Nepal. She has also studied the socio-economic factors and prevalence of hypertension among hospital staff and evaluated behavioral modification programs for childhood obesity in Kentucky. Shakya has published six papers with 34 citations and an h-index of 3, and has collaborated with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
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- h-index: 3
- Publications: 6
- Citations: 34
Selected Publications
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Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education (2022)
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Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance) (2018)
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- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Reach and Adoption of a Randomized Weight Loss Maintenance Trial in Rural African Americans of Faith: The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance)
- Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education
- Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education
- Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education
- Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education
- Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education
- Predictors of sustainment of two distinct nutrition and physical activity programs in early care and education
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