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Community Development and Nutrition Education in Banke District, Nepal: Effect on Child Health and Growth

NCT03516396 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1500

Last updated 2020-07-15

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Summary

Heifer Project International is a globally active NGO with more than 400 projects in over 30 countries. The organization uses the introduction of livestock and related training in the development of social capital as tools for poverty alleviation, citizen empowerment, and community development. In a pilot project conducted in 2009-2012, these activities were found to promote some improvement in child health and nutritional status. However, robust enhancement of these important indicators was not observed. Heifer now intends to investigate the efficacy of a nutrition and child health education program in amplifying these effects.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Training Plus

Training plus enhanced community development activities

BEHAVIORAL

Training Only

Training Only (livestock management and child nutrition) for 24 months then add community development inputs

BEHAVIORAL

No Inputs then Community development and training

No inputs for 24 months then add community development and training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Heifer Project International

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tufts University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laurie C Miller, MD · Tufts University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Month
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-01
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2019-12-31

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