Evaluation of NICHE Programme Activities in Kenya

Kimetrica

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Growth Disorders; Malnutrition

Treatments: Other: Cash and counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03518593

UN-43203222

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the impact of additional cash and nutritional counselling on nutrition outcomes in pregnant women and children up to the age of two years in CT-OVC (cash transfer- orphan and vulnerable children) households in Kitui and Machakos counties of Kenya. The control arm households will receive their normal CT-OVC cash payment and the intervention arm will receive an additional cash payment and nutritional counselling.

Enrollment: 800 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 23 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pregnant women and children aged up to 23 months of age in households receiving CT-OVC cash transfers in Kitui and Machakos counties of Kenya

Exclusion criteria

• not residing in CT-OVC households

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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800 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Additional cash transfer and nutritional counselling

Treatment:

Other: Cash and counselling

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Existing cash transfer only