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Mobile Gaming App to Improve Child Nutrition in Nigeria

NCT05181293 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 216

Last updated 2025-03-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Undernutrition among children born to teenage mothers deserves urgent attention in Nigeria, where 27.2% of girls (15-19 years) living in rural areas have begun childbearing. The overall goal of this study is to develop, validate and evaluate the effects of a mobile gaming app on the infant and young child feeding practices of teenage mothers, and the nutritional status of children (0 - 2 years).

Conditions

  • Child Malnutrition
  • Behavior, Maternal

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mobile Gaming App for Nutrition Intervention

A mobile gaming app (BabyThrive) will be disseminated to teenage mothers to help them learn about exclusive breastfeeding, introduction to solid/semi-solid foods, meal frequency and dietary diversity. BabyThrive will also demonstrate how to prepare 30 nutritious recipes for complementary feeding; create a calendar and set reminders to prompt mothers to access child health services; and plot growth patterns of the baby to facilitate growth monitoring.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Texas at Austin

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jeanne H Freeland-Graves, PhD, RD · University of Texas at Austin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Months
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-23
Primary Completion
2024-08-15
Completion
2024-08-15

Countries

  • Nigeria

Study Locations

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