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Evaluation Nutrition Education Intervention on Pulse and Cereal Mix for Complementary Food in Southern Ethiopia

U

University of Saskatchewan

Status

Completed

Conditions

Dietary Habits
Wasting
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices

Treatments

Other: enhanced education on pulse use in complementary foods

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02638571
PULSE-HEW

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall purpose of the study is to evaluate nutrition education interventions to promote pulse incorporated complementary food to the wider rural community through the government system to improve maternal knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) and nutritional status of young children (6 to 24 months). The hypothesis is that nutrition education improves mothers knowledge, attitude and practice of pulse incorporated complementary food and improves dietary intake of iron and zinc and nutritional status of young children.

Full description

Only 9% of the population in Southern Ethiopia consumes pulse and pulse total contribution of the diet is less than 4.9% for women and less than 3.3% for children.Young children are at risk of developing malnutrition because of dietary inadequacy. Educational interventions can improve feeding practices and growth of young children. The overall purpose of the study is to evaluate nutrition education interventions to promote pulse incorporated complementary food to the wider rural community through the government system to improve maternal knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) and nutritional status of young children (6 to 24 months). The hypothesis is that nutrition education improves mothers knowledge, attitude and practice of pulse incorporated complementary food and improves dietary intake of iron and zinc and nutritional status of young children. Before, at midline and end of the intervention we will assess the KAP of mothers, dietary intake of iron and zinc and nutritional status of young children. The nutrition education intervention will be given for 9 months. Serum ferritin, serum zinc, C-Reactive protein and hemoglobin and dietary intake of iron and zinc of young children will be measured at the beginning and ending of the intervention.

Enrollment

772 patients

Sex

All

Ages

6 to 15 months old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 6-15 months
  • Apparently healthy
  • Being breastfed at time of recruitment
  • The mothers are permanent residents of the kebele

Exclusion criteria

  • Infant undergoing treatment with supplemental foods for malnutrition

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

772 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual education
Sham Comparator group
Description:
Households in the control clusters (kebeles) will receive usual nutrition education from Health extension workers, about complementary foods, over 9 months.
Treatment:
Other: enhanced education on pulse use in complementary foods
Enhanced Education
Experimental group
Description:
Additional education sessions from Health extension workers (HEWs) trained on use of pulses for complementary foods (CF). HEWs provide nutrition education programs and counseling about pulse-cereal mix complementary foods, over 9 months.
Treatment:
Other: enhanced education on pulse use in complementary foods

Trial contacts and locations

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