Home-based Growth Charts in Indonesia

Summary

The investigators developed a home-based growth chart that offers a simple and inexpensive way for caregivers to have access to simple health and nutrition information guided by behavioural economics analysis as well as to track their child's linear growth, empowering them to act to improve their child's nutrition. Results from a pilot study conducted in rural Zambia suggest that growth charts installed in homes can increase awareness and reduce early-life growth deficits, particularly among children experiencing growth faltering. The main objective of this study is to assess the impact and cost-effectiveness of growth charts through a cluster-randomized trial in Indonesia. The primary outcome is child height-for-age z-score.

Conditions

• Child Growth

Interventions

OTHER

Home-based growth charts

The growth chart contains simple information of nutritious food, health, and sanitation information at the top and height chart is located at the bottom where caregivers can measure their child's linear growth. Growth charts will be installed in intervention group homes just after the baseline survey.

OTHER

Home visits for baseline surveys

Households will be visited for baseline surveys.

OTHER

Home visits for end line surveys

Households will be revisited after 1 year of grace-period for baseline end line surveys.

OTHER

Measurement of child's height-for-age and weight-for-age

The child's height-for-age and weight-for-age will be measured for participating dyads at the time of the baseline and end line surveys.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Southeast Asia

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Department of Foregin Affairs and Trade, Australia

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Boston University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Peter C Rockers, ScD, MPH · BU School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

9 Months

Max Age

14 Months

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-03-14

Primary Completion

2024-08-20

Completion

2024-08-20

Countries

• Indonesia

Study Locations