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Effectiveness of a Positive Deviance Program in Reducing Childhood Undernutrition

NCT04688515 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 74

Last updated 2024-05-08

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Summary

Globally, childhood malnutrition remains a public health concern. Malnutrition can be diverse from undernutrition to overnutrition. A young child, primarily refers to those under the age of 5, is suffering from undernutrition when the child is lacking of adequate nutrition that necessary for proper growth and health due to direct or indirect causes such as not having enough food. In fully urbanized area such as Kuala Lumpur, urban poor children tend to face greater deprivations such as lower education and poor health which significantly influence their daily diet and nutritional status. Hence, urban poor children who are living and growing up in such underprivileged environment should not be neglected. Since young children are generally depending on maternal feeding for daily diet, intervention that focus on encouraging positive change in maternal feeding practices might be efficient in reducing childhood undernutrition. The positive deviance (PD) approach may consider as a better alternative to empower mothers by promoting new behaviour to feed their children. Hence, this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a nutrition program using PD approach in reducing undernutrition among urban poor children aged 3 to 5 years old in Kuala Lumpur.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition, Child

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition program developed using positive deviance approach

It is a 3-month nutrition program including nutrition education session and rehabilitation session. The education session consists of half hour education lesson and one and half hours peer-led cooking session. The cooking demonstration will be led by volunteers from PD family. Participating mothers will need to bring along their children during this session, prepare meal according to pre-planned menu and feed their children with the prepared meal after cooking as snack or additional meal. The rehabilitation session will be the rest of the days following each education session until the next education session. Growth monitoring session will also be conducted in each session, whereby mothers will be taught and trained to weigh their children.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universiti Putra Malaysia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wan Ying Gan, PhD · Universiti Putra Malaysia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-09
Primary Completion
2023-07-31
Completion
2024-03-10

Countries

  • Malaysia

Study Locations

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