Bijay Khatri

@bpeyefoundation.org

Academic and Research Officer, Academic and Research Department
B.P. Eye Foundation

EDUCATION

Master of Public Health
36

Scopus Publications

230

Scholar Citations

7

Scholar h-index

5

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Association of Adjunctive Vitamin D Supplementation with Hearing Recovery in Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Prospective Observational Study
    A Adhikari, L Mathema, B Koirala, P Poudyal, M Neupane, B Khatri
    Birat Journal of Health Sciences 11 (1), 52-58 , 2026
    2026
  • Quality of Life and Associated Factors among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder: a comparative study in Kathmandu valley, Nepal
    M Kayastha, SB Singh, KR Sharma, D Baral, A Chakravartty, ...
    12th National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepa , 2026
    2026
  • Effectiveness of a female community health volunteer-led physical activity education intervention on accelerometer-derived outcomes in semi-urban Nepal: an open-label, cluster …
    R Shrestha, S Paudel, A Rijal, TB Adhikari, PJL Gradidge, B Khatri, ...
    International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity , 2026
    2026
  • Effectiveness of physical activity promotion interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    R Shrestha, S Paudel, TB Adhikari, B Khatri, S Adhikari, D Neupane, ...
    British Journal of Sports Medicine 60 (4), 286-299 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Pilot Study Comparing the Ocular Deviation Measures of Basic Intermittent Exotropia Using 2WIN-S and Prism Cover Test
    B Singh, B Khatri, R Suwal
    The British and Irish orthoptic journal 21 (1), 135 , 2025
    2025
  • Designing and evaluating training for female community health volunteers to promote physical activity in semi-urban Nepal: a co-designed approach
    R Shrestha, S Paudel, A Rijal, TB Adhikari, B Khatri, L Dhakal, ...
    Archives of Public Health 83 (1), 289 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • From Development to Deployment of AI-assisted Telehealth and Screening for Vision-and Hearing-threatening diseases in resource-constrained settings: Field Observations …
    M Shakya, B Adhikari, N Shrestha, B Koirala, A Adhikari, P Poudyal, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.15558 , 2025
    2025
  • Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Pesticide Use among Vegetable Farmers in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality, Nepal: An Observational Study.
    R Suwal, AK Rajbhandari, VL Shrestha, M Bataju, M Sharma, B Khatri
    Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 63 (287) , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Impact of a Community-based Intervention Program on Nutritional Status of Children Aged Under 5 Years With Undernutrition in Western Rural Nepal
    R Paudel, YB Gurung, B Khatri, AK Poudyal, D Acharya, DP Upadhyaya, ...
    Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 57 (7), 602-613 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Community-based promotion of physical activity in Nepal: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial
    R Shrestha, TB Adhikari, B Khatri, D Neupane, S Paudel, RØ Nielsen, ...
    Trials 26 (1), 170 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Surgical Removal of a Long-standing Impacted Tooth in Upper Alveolus Following Blast Injury: A Case Report
    A Adhikari, S Acharya, S Sharma, L Mathema, B Khatri
    JNMA: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 63 (281), 57 , 2025
    2025
  • Assessing the prevalence of insomnia and its socio-behavioral determinants among school going adolescents in Bagamati Province, Nepal
    M Sharma, P Bista, B Khatri, DP Upadhyaya, VK Khanal, BP Sapkota, ...
    PLOS Global Public Health 5 (1), e0004083 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents with Low Vision and Blindness Attending Public Integrated Schools in Nepal
    B Khatri, R Shrestha, M Pyakurel, MP Upadhyay
    Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health … , 2025
    2025
  • Malnutrition among students with visual impairment studying in integrated public schools of Nepal
    B Khatri, R Shrestha, M Pyakurel, MP Upadhyay
    Journal of Nutritional Science 14, e56 , 2025
    2025
  • Comparison of Visual Acuity and Stereoacuity Outcomes with Vision Therapy between within-and Beyond-Critical-Period in Amblyopic Patients: A Pilot Study
    R Suwal, MK Dev, A Thakur, HN Dahal, B Khatri, D Khadka, A Shrestha, ...
    TNOA Journal of Ophthalmic Science and Research 63 (1), 30-38 , 2025
    2025
  • Quantification of Metamorphopsia in Resolved Idiopathic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy: An Analysis Using M-CHARTS, Amsler Grid, and Optical Coherence Tomography
    B Suwal, D Khadka, A Shrestha, R Suwal, B Khatri
    Clinical Ophthalmology, 937-942 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • Experience from Implementing Infant Hearing Screening Program at Immunization Centers in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
    A Adhikari, B Khatri, L Mathema, P Poudyal, P Chaudhary, SK Upadhyay, ...
    Health Prospect 23 (3) , 2024
    2024
  • Kaleidos-based binocular vision analyzer for the estimation of refractive errors and horizontal ocular deviation in children
    R Suwal, B Singh, S Adhikari, D Khadka, B Suwal, B Khatri, GS Shrestha
    Clinical and Experimental Optometry 107 (7), 731-738 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Utilisation of eye health services and compliance with spectacles wear among community school adolescents: a mixed-methods study from Bagmati province of Nepal
    B Khatri, R Shrestha, R Suwal, M Kayastha, S Sharma, D Khadka, ...
    BMJ open 14 (8), e087287 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Recurrence and Satisfaction in Patients after Pterygium Surgery in Tertiary Eye Hospital in Bhaktapur, Nepal
    S Sharma, D Khadka, A Shrestha, N Shrestha, B Suwal, B Khatri
    Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology 16 (1), 53-61 , 2024
    2024

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • BMI, waist to height ratio and waist circumference as a screening tool for hypertension in hospital outpatients: a cross-sectional, non-inferiority study
    R Shrestha, SK Upadhyay, B Khatri, JR Bhattarai, M Kayastha, ...
    BMJ open 11 (11), e050096 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 46
  • Perception and use of intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUCD) among married women of reproductive age in Bhaktapur, Nepal
    B Khatri, A Khadka, A Amatya, SM Shrestha, R Paudel
    Open access journal of contraception 10, 69-77 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 21
  • Baseline predictive factors of visual outcome and persistence of subretinal fluid based on morphologic changes in spectral domain optical coherence tomography in patients with …
    B Suwal, D Khadka, A Shrestha, S Shrestha, N Shrestha, B Khatri
    Clinical Ophthalmology (Auckland, NZ) 13, 2439-2444 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 19
  • Utilization of adolescent friendly health services and its associated factors among higher secondary students in mid-western Himalayan mountainous district of Nepal
    M Sharma, B Khatri, A Amatya, N Subedi, DP Upadhyaya, BP Sapkota, ...
    PLOS Global Public Health 3 (3), e0001616 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 18
  • Impact of active vision therapy compared to conventional patching therapy on visual acuity and stereoacuity in children with amblyopia
    R Suwal, MK Dev, B Khatri, D Khadka, A Shrestha, S Sharma, ...
    Journal of Optometry 17 (1), 100484 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 10
  • Hearing loss among children visiting Department of Otolaryngology and HNS of a tertiary care centre
    P Chaudhary, GB Chalise, A Adhikari, L Mathema, P Poudyal, B Khatri
    JNMA: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 61 (267), 844 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 9
  • Screen time and its correlates among children aged 3–10 years during COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal: a community-based cross-sectional study
    R Shrestha, B Khatri, S Majhi, M Kayastha, B Suwal, S Sharma, R Suwal, ...
    BMJ Open Ophthalmology 7 (1) , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 8
  • Physical activity and its correlates among school teachers in a semi-urban district of Nepal
    R Shrestha, DP Pahari, S Adhikari, B Khatri, S Majhi, TB Adhikari, ...
    PLOS Global Public Health 3 (10), e0002000 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Diabetic Retinopathy among Patients with Prediabetes Attending the Outpatient Department of Ophthalmology in a Tertiary Eye Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
    A Shrestha, R Suwal, S Adhikari, N Shrestha, B Shrestha, B Khatri
    Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 61 (260), 351-354 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Urinary Tract Infection among Post-renal Transplant Patients in the Department of Nephrology of a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
    B Khatri, S Maharjan, J Lamsal, B Khatri, DS Shah
    Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 60 (250), 507-510 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 7
  • Effect of educational intervention based on theory of planned behaviour on physical activity intention among secondary school teachers of Nepal
    R Shrestha, DP Pahari, S Adhikari, B Khatri, S Majhi, A Vaidya
    BioMed Research International 2022 (1), 6953632 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 7
  • Anxiety, Depression and Functional Impairment among Health Care Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey
    R Shrestha, B Khatri, S Adhikari, P Poudyal
    Kathmandu University Medical Journal 75 (3), 351-355 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 7
  • Socio-demographic and Healthcare-seeking Predictors of Undernutrition among Children Under-five Years of Age in a Western District of Nepal
    R Paudel, YB Gurung, AK Poudyal, B Khatri, DR Bhatta, D Acharya, ...
    Journal of Nepal Health Research Council 18 (3), 488-494 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 7
  • Chronic Otitis Media among patients visiting community-based static outreach clinics
    L Mathema, A Adhikari, P Poudyal, GB Chalise, P Chaudhary, B Khatri
    JNMA: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 61 (268), 923 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 6
  • Use of telemedicine and artificial intelligence in Eye and ENT: a boon for developing countries
    P Upadhyaya, SK Upadhyay, A Shrestha, N Shrestha, R Shrestha, ...
    2022 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Speech … , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • Community-based promotion of physical activity in Nepal: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial
    R Shrestha, TB Adhikari, B Khatri, D Neupane, S Paudel, RØ Nielsen, ...
    Trials 26 (1), 170 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Assessing the prevalence of insomnia and its socio-behavioral determinants among school going adolescents in Bagamati Province, Nepal
    M Sharma, P Bista, B Khatri, DP Upadhyaya, VK Khanal, BP Sapkota, ...
    PLOS Global Public Health 5 (1), e0004083 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Utilisation of eye health services and compliance with spectacles wear among community school adolescents: a mixed-methods study from Bagmati province of Nepal
    B Khatri, R Shrestha, R Suwal, M Kayastha, S Sharma, D Khadka, ...
    BMJ open 14 (8), e087287 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Diabetes Mellitus among Adult Outpatients Visiting a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
    B Khatri, M Kayastha, R Shrestha, JR Bhattarai, S Majhi, SK Upadhyay, ...
    Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 60 (251), 592-595 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 4
  • Impact of a Community-based Intervention Program on Nutritional Status of Children Aged Under 5 Years With Undernutrition in Western Rural Nepal
    R Paudel, YB Gurung, B Khatri, AK Poudyal, D Acharya, DP Upadhyaya, ...
    Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 57 (7), 602-613 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3