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Effectiveness of Child Centered Counseling on Child Nutrition Status

NCT01977365 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2341

Last updated 2013-11-06

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Summary

Hypothesis N°1: The "children growth promotion based on approach centered on their specific needs" enhances caretakers and health workers skills, knowledge and practices on breastfeeding, complementary feeding and child care.

Hypothesis N°1: children growth promotion based on approach centered on their specific needs" approach improves children growth and health.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Growth promotion based on child centered approach

\- Preventive consultations will be reorganized. From the child birth, a follow-up schedule will be establish in agreement with the mother, and the subsequent appointment will be renew at each meeting. Ten contacts will be organized for children under two years. During the first year, the number of contacts will be limited to 6 at birth , 2 , 3, 4 and 9 months to complete the vaccination schedule and an additional contact at 7 months to allow monitoring during the introduction of complementary foods. Four contacts will be held for the second year to 12, 15, 18 and 24 months to monitor the transition from complementary food to the family diet. \- Inclusion of Child Centered growth promotion approach. During preventive consultations, specific messages according to the child age, health and nutritional status will be developed, based on scientific evidences and adapted to the experience and knowledge of health workers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

    collaborator OTHER

  • Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Burkina Faso

    lead OTHER_GOV

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-02-28
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-03-31

Countries

  • Burkina Faso

Study Locations

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