Integrating Nutrition Education & Household Food Production for Child Nutrition

Summary

In Ethiopia, a child-centered counseling approach is hypothesized to be more effective than the current nutrition and health education when investment on home-based food production is used as a platform for nutrition education. This project is proposed to evaluate the efficacy of a food-based package integrating child-centered nutrition counseling and home-based food production using a between-group comparative intervention study. The intervention comprises child-centered nutrition counseling for caretakers and support for 'developed' gardens and improved backyard poultry production.

Conditions

• Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Child Centered Nutrition Counseling

The intervention comprises child-centered nutrition counseling for caretakers and support for 'developed' gardens and improved backyard poultry production; whereas the control will only receive the agriculture extension and the existing health and nutrition education in the area

OTHER

no intervention

the control will only receive the agriculture extension and the existing health and nutrition education in the area

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Nestlé Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR)

  collaborator NETWORK

• Jimma University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Abebe Gebremariam, Professor · Jimma University

• Alemayehu Argaw, Mr · Jimma University

• Lieven Huybregts, Dr · University Ghent

• Patrick Kolsteren, Professor · University Ghent

• Mulusew Gerbaba, Mr. · Jimma University

• Solomon Demeke, Professor · Jimma University

• Joep Grosemans, Mr. · Provincial university college Limburg

• Amanuel Tesfay, Mr. · Jimma University

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Months

Max Age

12 Months

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-01-31

Primary Completion

2015-07-31

Completion

2015-10-31