Engaging Fathers for Effective Child Nutrition and Development in Tanzania

Summary

This study aims to evaluate the independent and combined effectiveness of engaging both mothers and fathers in bundled parenting and nutrition behavior change packages on early child nutrition and development.

Conditions

• Child Nutrition and Early Child Development

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition, mothers

Nutrition-related social and behavior change (SBC) messages and activities for mothers focused on infant and young child feeding (IYCF), dietary diversity, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), food access (use of income and home-grown foods), psychosocial well-being, gender equity, intra-household resource allocation, partner communication and household decision-making

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition, mothers and fathers

Nutrition-related social and behavior change (SBC) messages and activities for mothers and fathers focused on infant and young child feeding (IYCF), dietary diversity, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), food access (use of income and home-grown foods), psychosocial well-being, gender equity, intra-household resource allocation, partner communication and household decision-making

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition+parenting, mothers

Nutrition- and parenting-related social and behavior change (SBC) messages and activities for mothers focused on infant and young child feeding (IYCF), dietary diversity, responsive caregiving and child stimulation (play and communication), water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), food access (use of income and home-grown foods), psychosocial well-being, gender equity, intra-household resource allocation, partner communication and household decision-making

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition+parenting, mothers and fathers

Nutrition- and parenting-related social and behavior change (SBC) messages and activities for mothers and fathers focused on infant and young child feeding (IYCF), dietary diversity, responsive caregiving and child stimulation (play and communication), water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), food access (use of income and home-grown foods), psychosocial well-being, gender equity, intra-household resource allocation, partner communication and household decision-making

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Purdue University

  collaborator OTHER

• Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

  collaborator OTHER

• Africa Academy for Public Health

  collaborator OTHER

• The Eleanor Crook Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Project Concern International

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Mary Pat Kieffer, MSc. · Project Concern International

• Nilupa Gunaratna, PhD · Purdue University

• Aisha Yousafzai, PhD · Harvard H.T. Chan School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

0 Months

Max Age

18 Months

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-10-30

Primary Completion

2021-02-28

Completion

2021-02-28

Countries

• Tanzania

Study Locations