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A Feasibility Study of Delivering Adolescent Nutrition Interventions Through School-Based Platforms in Ethiopia

NCT04121559 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1712

Last updated 2022-03-10

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Summary

Alive \& Thrive (A\&T) is an initiative that supports the scaling up of nutrition interventions to save lives, prevent illnesses, and contribute to healthy growth and development through improved maternal nutrition, breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. In Ethiopia, A\&T tested the feasibility of implementing a package of locally tailored adolescent nutrition interventions through school-based (flag assemblies, classroom lessons, girls' clubs, peer mentoring, weight and height measurement, and parent-teacher meetings) and community platforms (health post and home visits and community gatherings). The evaluation used a two-arm cluster-randomized, non-masked trial design, consisting of two cross-sectional surveys in 2019 and 2021.

Conditions

  • Dietary Diversity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

School Interventions

1. Classroom lessons on nutrition, dietary diversity, healthy food choices and handwashing. 2. Principals provide messages on nutrition, dietary diversity, healthy food choices and handwashing at flag events or school assemblies. 3. Selected adolescent girls are mentored by science teachers as peer mentors and hold weekly group discussions with other girls to discuss nutrition, dietary diversity, healthy food choices and handwashing. 4. Trained science teachers take anthropometric measurements of adolescent girls to calculate BMI and provide nutrition counseling. 5. Parent-teacher meetings to inform and encourage parents about adolescent nutrition, dietary diversity, healthy snacks, and handwashing.

BEHAVIORAL

Community Interventions

1. Home visits by HEWs and/or community volunteers to discuss with parents about adolescent nutrition, dietary diversity, healthy food choices, and handwashing. 2. Community gatherings by HEWs and meetings with religious leaders to discuss with parents about adolescent nutrition, dietary diversity, healthy food choices, and handwashing.

BEHAVIORAL

School System Interventions

1. Workshop on the adolescent nutrition interventions for school principals, science teachers, HEWs, supervisors, and woreda officers. 2. Biweekly supportive supervision on adolescent nutrition activities for schools and HEWs by school supervisors or woreda health/education office.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Addis Continental Institute of Public Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • FHI 360

    collaborator OTHER

  • International Food Policy Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-10-08
Primary Completion
2021-04-29
Completion
2021-04-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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