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Maternal Education on Complementary Feeding and Infant Outcome

NCT01128517 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 175

Last updated 2010-05-24

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Summary

Overall Objective

• To evaluate impact of maternal educational strategies (teaching sessions by trained lady health workers, verbal, pictorial and demonstrative) regarding appropriate complementary foods of infants, and assess their impact on nutritional status of after six months of educational intervention.

Specific objective • To determine the impact of maternal educational strategies regarding complementary foods by assessing baseline weight, height and mid - upper arm circumference at 2.5 - 5 month of age and then comparing it at 3, 6 and 9 months after enrollment.

(Hypothesis; the investigators hypothesize that there will be a gain of 250 gram weight, 0.5 cm in length and 0.5 cm in MUAC in infants whose mothers received the special education module for complementary feeding, as compare to the children whose mothers doesn't receive education on complementary food.

Secondary objective

• To determine the impact of maternal educational strategies regarding complementary foods by assessing morbidity (number of diarrhea and ARI episodes, at 2.5 - 5 month of age and at then reporting at 3, 6 and 9 months after enrollment).

(Hypothesis; the investigators hypothesize that there will be 10% decrease in incidence of diarrhea episodes and ARI episodes in infants whose mother received the special education module for complementary feeding, as compare to the children whose mothers doesn't receive education on complementary food).

ARI can be define as per IMCI guidelines. Increase breathing rate (age specific) along with cough, cold and or wheezing.

Conditions

  • Growth

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Maternal education on complementary feeding

CF education to the mothers in intervention arm. * Ten important key messages developed based on recommended practices (WHO/UNICEF, 2000 \& 2006). * First session --\> cover the importance of breast feeding, its continuation for whole two years, hand washing, hygiene and importance of CF initiation at 6 months of age. * Second session --\>breastfeeding promotion, complementary food consistency, initial complementary food selection and age related complementary food education. * Third session --\> previous sessions recall. protein based and iron rich food encouragement. * The control arm continue to be benefited from the lady health workers program, while breastfeeding promotion would be provided to control arm

BEHAVIORAL

Education

Maternal education on complementary food

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aga Khan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ali F Saleem, MBBS · The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Months
Max Age
5 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-01-31
Completion
2010-05-31

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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