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Double Duty Interventions and Its Impact on Double Burden of Malnutrition in Children Under Five Years

NCT05791305 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 456

Last updated 2024-08-09

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Summary

Background: Double burden of malnutrition is an emerging public health problem among children under-five years due to the inevitable consequences of nutritional transition. Addressing these two contrasting forms of malnutrition (undernutrition and overnutrition) simultaneously brings an enormous challenge to the food and nutrition policies of developing countries like Ethiopia. Children under five ages are more vulnerable to DBM, especially during the first year of their life due to high growth and inadequate diet. Hence, there has been a paradigm shift in thinking to reduce its effect on the health of children. However, interventions that are used to address these different kinds of malnutrition are implemented through different governance and still, they are isolated and disintegrated each other. Therefore, double-duty interventions can tackle the risk of both nutritional problems simultaneously in an integrated approach through nutrition behavior change communication.

Objective: Therefore, the main aim of this pilot study is to assess the effect of selected double-duty interventions on the double burden of malnutrition among children under five years in Debre Berhan City, Ethiopia.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition
  • Malnutrition, Child
  • Obesity
  • Undernutrition
  • Thinness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

double duty intervention packages

The intervention employed in this study will serve as double-duty interventions. The WHO policy short report from 2017 and Hawkes et al2020 .'s were amended and used as the basis for the DDIs packages. The main components of the intervention packages are the promotion of a minimum level of dietary diversity, avoiding unwarranted harm from high-energy foods, and controlling market foods from the perspective of the consumer. The following central criteria will be used to evaluate the study's intervention packages.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Debre Berhan University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-04-10
Primary Completion
2024-04-30
Completion
2025-12-30

Countries

  • Ethiopia

Study Locations

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