Mangrove-sword Bean-food Bar on the Weight and Weight for Age Z Score of Under-five Children (MFB)

University of Indonesia (UI)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutrition Poor

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Emergency Food Product

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05878886

Universitas Indonesia (UI)

PUTI Q1 Grants 2023 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the effect of the food bar made from api-api mangrove (Avicennia marina) and sword bean (Canavalia ensiformis) blends on the weight and Weight-for-Age Z score affected by a landslide disaster.

The main questions aimed to answer are:

• Food bar supplementation can effect the weight and WAZ score of under-five children affected by landslides disaster?
• Balanced nutrition education can increase the mothers' knowledge on the balanced nutrition of under-five children?

Participants divided in to two group i.e.:

• Treatment/intervention group consumed 50 g mangrove sword bean food bar each day during 15 days.
• Control group consumed 50 g sword bean food bar each day during 15 days.
• Each group received balanced nutrition for mothers once at the first week of study.

Full description

Eligibility Criteria for Under-five children:

• Aged between 12 and 59 months
• Male and female
• Living in Cihanjuang Village of Sumedang District which affected by the landslide disaster
• Had malnutrition, normal, or over-nutrition status, and not suffering from infectious diseases.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 49 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged between 12 and 59 months
• Male and female living in Cihanjuang Village of Sumedang District who affected by the landslide disaster
• Had malnutrition, normal, or over-nutrition status
• Not suffering from infectious diseases
• Willing to avoid consumption of any snacks other than the food bars and plain water

Exclusion criteria

• Suffered from infectious or chronical diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment group received 50 g mangrove sword bean food bar during 15 days.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Emergency Food Product

Control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Control group received 50 g sword bean food bar during 15 days.

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Emergency Food Product