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Effective Means to Address Moderately Malnourished Children

NCT00751582 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2016-03-22

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Summary

Supplementary feeding and intensive IEC at the community level will effectively reduce moderate PEM compared to the control children within 3 months .

Intensive nutrition education at the household level will reduce by at least one third of the prevalence of moderate malnutrition (40% of present level) within a short period of 3 months

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Food supplementation and nutrition education

Food supplementation and nutrition education for three months

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition education

Nutrition education for children for three months

OTHER

Control Group

No Nutrition Education

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • World Bank

    collaborator OTHER

  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Swapan K Roy, PhD, FRCP · Senior Scientist, ICDDR,B

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
2 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1998-07-31
Primary Completion
1998-11-30
Completion
1998-11-30

Countries

  • Bangladesh

Study Locations

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