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Education Using WhatsApp and Face-to-Face Meetings on IYCF for the Nutritional Status of Infants

NCT05502978 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 126

Last updated 2023-09-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic affects all activities, including stunting prevention. Almost all cities implement Internet-based learning can be used as an alternative to providing education and allows to exchange personal experiences and also establish interpersonal relationships. Education is one of the intervention efforts that aims to foster and improve the health status of the community, while counselling is a technical part of the educational process itself. blended counselling is the integration of online and offline counselling. Blended counselling is a strategy in the covid-19 pandemic condition and after pandemic. the virtual Education method has also been widely used around the world. The WhatsApp application ranks 2 among the most popular social media in Indonesia.

Blended education innovations are offered online in the form of digital booklets, videos, online discussions, and online consultations carried out via WhatsApp and offline visits according to health protocols. This blended education is expected to facilitate the work of cadres in providing Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) education, to improve IYCF practices for infant nutritional status.

Conditions

  • Nutritional Stunting

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Blended education of Infant and Young Child Feeding

Blended education is an intervention about IYCF consisting of 3 components: Education via WhatsApp group, counselling face to face, Consultation with nutritionist via WhatsApp call. In the intervention group, participants will get blended education about IYCF provided by trained cadres. Education via WhatsApp group. The implementation of this educational program was carried out for 3 meeting sessions, where previously trained cadres had distributed videos and digital booklets for IYCF material and opened a discussion session at the end of the meeting in WhatsApp group. Face to face Counselling (Home visit). The cadres conduct home visits every month when the participants have given birth until the child is 7 months old. Consultation with nutritionist via WhatsApp call. Consultations were carried out via WhatsApp calls about IYCF practice was for infants aged 1 month, 3 months, 6 and 7 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Gadjah Mada University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Siti Helmyati, ph.D · Gadjah Mada University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-07
Primary Completion
2023-07-15
Completion
2023-08-15

Countries

  • Indonesia

Study Locations

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