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Effectiveness Trial on Alleviation of Infant Malnutrition With Fortified Spread or Maize-Soy Flour Food Supplements

NCT00420758 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 299

Last updated 2015-12-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study tests the hypothesis that moderately underweight but not severely wasted 6-17-month old infants receiving fortified spread or maize-spy flour as a food supplement for 12 weeks grow better during the supplementation than infants who do not get any food supplement.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Food supplement: fortified spread

Provision of fortified spread

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Food supplement: maize-soy flour

Provision of corn-soy blend (maize-soy flour)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tampere University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Per Ashorn, MD, PhD · University of Tampere, Medical School, Finland

  • Kenneth Maleta, MBBS, PhD · University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Department of Community Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
15 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Primary Completion
2008-05-31
Completion
2008-05-31

Countries

  • Malawi

Study Locations

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