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Evaluation Nutrition Education Intervention on Pulse and Cereal Mix for Complementary Food in Southern Ethiopia

NCT02638571 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 772

Last updated 2024-05-08

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Summary

The overall purpose of the study is to evaluate nutrition education interventions to promote pulse incorporated complementary food to the wider rural community through the government system to improve maternal knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) and nutritional status of young children (6 to 24 months). The hypothesis is that nutrition education improves mothers knowledge, attitude and practice of pulse incorporated complementary food and improves dietary intake of iron and zinc and nutritional status of young children.

Conditions

  • Dietary Habits
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices
  • Wasting

Interventions

OTHER

enhanced education on pulse use in complementary foods

Enhanced Nutrition education with sessions and counseling by health extension workers

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hawassa University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Saskatchewan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carol J Henry, PhD · University of Saskatchewan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-19
Primary Completion
2016-11-22
Completion
2016-11-22

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