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Improving Nutrition in Children Under Two Through Increased Egg Consumption in Burkina Faso

NCT04135625 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 267

Last updated 2021-06-30

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Summary

This project targets vulnerable populations of smallholders, women and children and should lead to increased poultry production, increased egg consumption of children, improved nutrition, and increased household level resilience. This innovative intervention will be the gifting of chickens by religious leaders to children ages 6 to 12 months coupled with integrated nutrition and agricultural trainings.

Conditions

  • Nutrition

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Integrated nutrition and agricultural (INA) trainings

Monthly INA training session to help increase knowledge about nutrition and chicken husbandry and help to increase resiliency on a household level.

BEHAVIORAL

Ceremonial Gifting of Livestock

Egg laying chickens will be presented as a gift to the child by a community champion (their religious leader or village chief)) during a gifting ceremony

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

    collaborator FED

  • University of Florida

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sarah McKune, PhD, MPH · University of Florida

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
18 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-07-05
Primary Completion
2019-09-20
Completion
2019-09-20

Countries

  • Burkina Faso

Study Locations

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