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Effects of Cash Transfers on Severe Acute Malnutrition

NCT02460848 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1600

Last updated 2016-01-05

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Summary

Cash transfer, aims to strengthen food security for vulnerable households by giving families enough purchasing power to consume an adequate and balanced diet, maintain a good standard of hygiene, access health services, and invest in their own means of food production in addition to their children's growth and development.

While cash transfer to vulnerable households has shown a long-term positive impact on growth and on malnutrition-related mortality in children aged 0-5 years, there is little conclusive evidence their effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa that cash transfer has a direct effect on the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM). Here, the investigators will perform a cluster-randomized trial to investigate during 6 months the effects of unconditional cash transfers on the management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children from 6 to 59 months according to the national protocol in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Conditions

  • Severe Malnutrition

Interventions

OTHER

Outpatient therapeutic program, counseling and cash transfer

Each household will receive an unconditional cash transfer of $40 value every month during a 6 months' period. The amount of cash per household per month was defined according to the results of the Household Economy Approach survey. This amount represents 70% of supplement to the monthly average household income characterized as very poor to meet their basic needs. This threshold corresponds to the total of food and income necessary to cover 100% of energy needs food (2100 kcal per day per person), the costs associated with the preparation and consumption of food (e.g. salt, soap, kerosene and / or firewood for cooking and basic lighting) and finally all expenses for access to water for human consumption.

OTHER

Outpatient therapeutic program and counseling

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Save the Children

    collaborator OTHER

  • UNICEF

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eric Alain Ategbo, PhD · United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
59 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-11-30
Completion
2016-01-31

Countries

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo

Study Locations

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