Iron Supplementation Among Adolescent Girls in India

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Iron Deficiency Anemia

Treatments: Drug: Iron-folic acid supplement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00198848

S3433-23/23 (ASPH)

H.32.04.11.22.A2

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will implement and evaluate a community-based intervention to distribute and promote consumption of weekly iron-folic acid supplements and to provide nutrition education to reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia among adolescent girls in West Bengal, India.

Enrollment: 2,800 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 12 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Girl 12-19 years of age
• Resides in study area

Exclusion criteria

• Does not reside in study area

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)