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Development and Acceptability Testing of Ready-to-use-complementary Food Supplement (RUCFS) for Children in Bangladesh

NCT01553877 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2013-01-03

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Summary

The prevention of malnutrition among children under 5 years of age requires consumption of nutritious food, including exclusive breast feeding for the first six months of life, followed by breastfeeding in combination with complementary foods thereafter until at least 24 months of age; a hygienic environment; access to preventive as well as curative health services, and good prenatal care. The proposed research is on the possible options for providing a nutritious diet, realizing the constraints of poverty and food insecurity faced by care givers whose children are at risk of developing or confirmed to be suffering from moderate malnutrition. Even when people are not typically food insecure but consume a relatively monotonous diet with few good-quality foods, they also have to have options for dietary improvement, and especially the possibility of ready-to-use complementary food supplements (RUCFS) for young children. This proposed research on development of RUCFS will pave the way for programmatic considerations for expansion of the use of new complementary food supplements for preventing malnutrition among young children in Bangladesh.

Conditions

  • Moderately Malnourished Children

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Pushti packet

A food composed of roasted rice, roasted lentil, molasses and soybean oil

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Rice based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements

A rice based diet.

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Chick-pea based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements

A chick-pea based diet.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
18 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-02-29
Completion
2012-05-31

Countries

  • Bangladesh

Study Locations

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