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Promotion of Complimentary Feeding Practices in Bangladesh

NCT03024710 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 360

Last updated 2017-01-20

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Summary

Infant feeding practices and nutritional status among children is interrelated and link is well established. Incidence of malnutrition sharply rises during 6-9 months of age in most of the developing countries which coincide with the period of complimentary feeding (CF). This prospective randomized trial will be implemented in ongoing health and demographic surveillance system of Matlab, ICDDR,B and will be nested into an ongoing maternal and child health services area. Area of community health workers (four blocks) will be divided into two pairs and each pair will be randomly assigned into intervention or control groups. The eligible and consented mother-infant newborn will be recruited either into an intervention or control groups based on the areas of the paired block. The mothers and family members of the intervention area will receive intensive counseling on complementary feeding practices through community health workers. In total about 360 mother-infant pair will be recruited in the study for each site. Data on children's anthropometry (weight and lengths), information on complementary feeding practices and related covariates will be collected through trained research staffs. Data will be evaluated on reduction of burden of malnutrition (stunting, underweight, wasting) and complimentary feeding index between intervention and control groups.

Conditions

  • Growth Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention cluster

The mother- infant pairs (the infant who has completed his/her 6 month of age from the date of birth along with their mother) of intervention clusters will receive the CF practice counselling in groups as soon as enrolment is completed by CHRW at fixed site clinic and refreshers will be arranged 3 months apart from first training in groups at same place and by same person. However CHRWs will also counsel each participant during her bimonthly household visit.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aminur Rahman, MBBS, MSc · ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
12 Months
Sex
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2013-06-30

Countries

  • Bangladesh

Study Locations

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