In Utero Capacity Formation and Socio-economic Outcomes (CDS)

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Folic Acid Deficiency

Treatments: Other: observational follow-up

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01412580

F19899-101

Details and patient eligibility

About

Because of the high returns of schooling in developing countries, policymakers pay a lot of attention to increasing school access. But if the mother is deficient in key micronutrients, brain development can biologically constrain children's demand for education. To execute this strategy, the investigators collect cohort observational data on a previous randomized controlled trial with micronutrient supplements offered to HIV-negative pregnant women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, between 2001 to 2003.

Full description

This is a cohort study which collected follow-up observational data on households which were offered micronutrient supplements. The followup study outcomes include various socio-economic household characteristics and parental post-natal behaviors.

Enrollment: 4,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

These were individuals from the larger study and this study is an observational follow-up.

Trial design

4,000 participants in 1 patient group

observational followup

Description:

This was an observational follow-up to a larger study in which treatment group was given 20 mg of vitamin B1, 20 mg of vitamin B2, 25 mg of vitamin B6, 100 mg of niacin, 50 μg of vitamin B12, 500 mg of vitamin C, 30 mg of vitamin E, and 0.8 mg of folic acid

Treatment:

Other: observational follow-up