A Nutrition/Hygiene Education Program for the Prevention of Child Malnutrition in Rural Kenya

University of New Mexico (UNM)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Child Nutrition Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: nutrition and hygiene education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01679535

TOMEDI-12-049

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will determine if an education program about hygiene and child feeding practices, taught by local village community health workers, will improve child growth and decrease the prevalence of childhood malnutrition in a rural region of Kenya.

Enrollment: 246 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 6 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Child of a mother living in the catchment area of the study who delivered during the enrollment period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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246 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

nutrition and hygiene education by community health workers

Treatment:

Behavioral: nutrition and hygiene education