Effectiveness of Child Centered Counseling on Child Nutrition Status (LUCOMAI)

Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Burkina Faso

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Behavioral: Growth promotion based on child centered approach

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01977365

IRSSOOO1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypothesis N°1: The "children growth promotion based on approach centered on their specific needs" enhances caretakers and health workers skills, knowledge and practices on breastfeeding, complementary feeding and child care.

Hypothesis N°1: children growth promotion based on approach centered on their specific needs" approach improves children growth and health.

Enrollment: 2,341 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

-Inclusion Criteria: all women of childbearing age in the third trimester of pregnancy, living in the study area for at least one year at the time of the inclusion and who gave informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,341 participants in 2 patient groups

Growth promotion based on child centered approach

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Growth promotion based on child centered approach

Control

No Intervention group