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Food Supplement Treatment for Wasting Children in Indonesia

NCT03509155 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 720

Last updated 2018-04-30

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Summary

Assessing program efficacy of under five food supplementation (PMT Biscuits) is needed after the first 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding, children were introduced to liquid and semi-solid food. In this phase of food introduction, children ability to accept food supplementation program was still questionable and the efficacy needs to be assessed.

Another aspect that needed to be evaluated is assessing the efficacy of food supplementation to improve the nutritional status of wasting children in multiple cities to describe Indonesian geographical and socio-economic diversity (multi center studies). PMT biscuits supplementation intervention is accompanied by educational modules on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) in order to improve caregiver's knowledge and skills in providing economically affordable and nutritious food for their children. PMT biscuits supplementation evaluation will be assessed at 9 months observations (3 months intervals). The observation will be conducted every month up until the first 3 months then the observation will be continued in 6th and 9th months of observation.

Conditions

  • Wasting
  • Nutrition Disorder, Child

Interventions

OTHER

National portion & IYCF counseling

Eight or twelve pieces of Biscuits supplementation per day as serving size recommendation based on the requirement from Ministry of Health, accompanied by IYCF Counseling emphasizing on local food optimization. The difference in serving size recommendation will be evaluated to see the efficacy of Biscuits supplementation on wasting children age 6-23 months of age

OTHER

Adjusted portion & local food counseling

four pieces of Biscuits supplementation per day as serving size recommendation, accompanied by IYCF Counseling. The difference in serving size recommendation will be evaluated to see the efficacy of Biscuits supplementation on wasting children age 6-23 months of age

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • SEAMEO Regional Centre for Food and Nutrition

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Muchtaruddin Mansyur, PhD · Seameo Regional Center For Food And Nutrition

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-01
Primary Completion
2018-10-31
Completion
2018-11-30

Countries

  • Indonesia

Study Locations

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