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Efficacy and Acceptability of RUTFs in Indonesia

NCT05614505 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2022-11-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Severe wasting or Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) continues to be a major public health problem in Indonesia, affecting more than 2 million children under 5 years old. A new approach to treat SAM is called Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), which has been designed to maximize the coverage and successful treatment of children with SAM, by providing Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) through out-patient treatment. Since 2019, UNICEF has been working intensively to facilitate the local production of RUTF. This present study aims to assess the acceptability and efficacy of three locally produced RUTFs compared to the standard peanut based RUTF.

The study will be implemented in Bogor district. A total of 300 children with uncomplicated SAM, aged 6-59 months old, meeting the inclusion criteria will be included in the study. This study is designed as a randomized controlled trial. The children will be allocated to one of the five intervention (1 control, 4 experimental) arms. Each child will receive one type of RUTF product for eight consecutive weeks. The ration given to a child will be based on the need for an intake of \~ 170 kcal/kg BW/day. Data will be collected at baseline, at weekly intervals and at exit. The primary outcome of interest for the efficacy study is the relative weight gain of children consuming each of the local RUTFs compared with those consuming the standard RUTF. The primary outcome of the acceptability of the RUTFs will be the amount of product consumed during the eight-week efficacy trial.

Differences in weight and height gain will be analyzed using ANCOVA, controlling for age, gender, food intake, and morbidity. Repeated measurement statistics will be used to analyze differences in growth patterns over the eight-week intervention.

Conditions

  • Severe Acute Malnutrition

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Ready to use therapeutic foods

locally produced therapeutic foods

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Savica

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • UNICEF

    collaborator OTHER

  • Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Frank Wieringa, MD PhD · Institute de Recherche pour le Développement

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
59 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-07-15
Primary Completion
2021-12-15
Completion
2022-01-25

Countries

  • Indonesia

Study Locations

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