District-based Mainstreaming Nutrition Project in Rural Pakistan (NF Nutrition)

Aga Khan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Behavioral: Enhanced education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00816946

753-Ped/ERC-07

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to provide evidence regarding the feasibility of integrating an enhanced maternal and child care health education package into the existing curricula of the National Program for Family Planning and Primary Health Care (LHW Program) and evaluating the feasibility of scaling-up as well as the impact on birth outcomes, nutritional status, morbidity patterns and overall survival patterns at the community level.

Full description

This project aims to do the following:

• To evaluate the operational feasibility of integrating an enhanced health education and nutrition package into the existing curriculum of the National Program for FP/PHC (LHW Program)
• Impact of the implementation of the full package of evidence-based nutrition interventions on the nutrition status, morbidity patterns and overall survival patterns in the district

Enrollment: 3,000 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Live born infants and young children from all registered pregnancies within participating villages and catchment population
• pregnant women
• Consent given by at least one of the parents

Exclusion criteria

• Children born with congenital malformations or serious birth injury
• Suspected non-compliance (mobile and poorly motivated parents).
• Failure to give consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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3,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Routine LHW Advice

No Intervention group

Description:

Arm receiving routine advice by their local Lady Health Workers (LHWs)

Enhanced LHW Advice

Active Comparator group

Description:

Arm receiving enhanced nutrition and health advice from the local Lady Health Workers (LHWs)during their routine community visits.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Enhanced education