Impact of Harvest Lentil Vegetable Blend and Nutrition Education on Turkana Children's Health Outcomes

Texas Tech University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition, Child

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Harvest Lentil Vegetable Blend; Behavioral: Theory-Based Nutrition Education Intervention to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices and WASH Practices Among Turkana Caregivers

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06866626

IRB2023-381

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study was to test the effect of an intervention that Integrated supplemental feeding program for children aged 6-59 months with a caregiver intensive nutrition education intervention on the health outcomes of Turkan children aged 6-59 months.

The purpose of this study was fivefold: (i) to assess child nutrition status, food security status, child feeding practices, water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) practices, and the associated factors in Turkana County, Kenya. (ii) To assess the nutrition knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intentions towards recommended child feeding practices among Turkana caregivers of children aged 6-59 months. (iii) To assess the effect of a theory-based nutrition education intervention on nutrition knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intentions towards recommended child feeding practices among Turkana caregivers of children aged 6-59 months, (iv) to evaluate the effect of a theory-based nutrition education intervention on child feeding practices and WASH practices among Turkana caregivers of children aged 6-59 months, (v) and to assess the effect of consuming Harvest Lentil Vegetable Blend combined with nutrition education intervention on the nutritional status of Turkana children aged 6 -59 months.

In this quasi-experimental study, children in the intervention group received a daily meal of Harvest Lentil Vegetable Blend (6 days/week) for eight weeks and their caregivers' received sessions of nutrition education on infant and young child feeding practices and WASH practices. The participants in the control group were only given one bag of supplemental food on the days of data collection to compensate for their time

Enrollment: 602 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 59 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children between 6-59 months
• no known allergy reactions to rice, lentils, carrots and onions
• being a permanent resident of nayada and sopel villages
• willingness to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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602 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

This arm consisted of 171 children aged 6-59 months and 145 children's caregivers. Children received a daily meal of a supplemental food (Harvest Lentil Vegetable Blend) six days a week for a total of eight weeks. Additionally, their caregivers received a theory-based nutrition education intervention on complementary feeding practices and water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) practices for eight weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Theory-Based Nutrition Education Intervention to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices and WASH Practices Among Turkana Caregivers

Dietary Supplement: Harvest Lentil Vegetable Blend

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group consistent of 147 children aged 6-59 months and 139 children's caregivers. Children in the control group were given one bag of Harvest Lentil Vegetable Blend on the days of data collection while their caregivers received no nutrition education intervention.