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Assessing Cost and Effectiveness of Training and Supervision of Front Line Workers on Early Breastfeeding Practices

NCT01407224 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1200

Last updated 2011-08-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this operational research is to compare the cost-effectiveness of two methods for capacity building of existing TBAs/CVs to improve rates of delayed cord clamping, early skin to skin contact and infant-led initiation of breastfeeding, to reduce prelacteal feeding and increase early exclusive breastfeeding in research areas of rural Bangladesh.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Improve Early Breastfeeding

One arm got only training, another arm training and supervision and third arm without any intervention as control.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of California, Davis

    collaborator OTHER

  • Eminence

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • DR. Shamim Talukder, M.Phil · Eminence

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Day
Max Age
5 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-05-31
Primary Completion
2011-05-31
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • Bangladesh

Study Locations

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