Mobile Messaging for Improved Nutrition (IIMAANJE)

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anemia; Diet, Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Infant and young child feeding voice messaging intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05374837

1R21HD105067-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Pro2021000819

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will examine the impact of an infant and young child feeding (IYCF) voice messaging intervention delivered to mothers and fathers in Senegal on the consumption of a minimum acceptable diet and anemia prevalence in their children.

Full description

This is a cluster-randomized control trial (cRCT) conducted with 488 mother, father, and child triads in 104 villages in three regions in Senegal: Thies, Diourbel and Fatick. Mothers and fathers in the experimental group will receive 16 voice and text messages over the course of 16 weeks. One voice and 1 text message with the same content will be sent per week over the 16 week period. We will include eight scripted messages which have previously been piloted. We will also include eight unscripted messages from positive deviants from communities similar to our study population that were included in our pilot study. A text message with the same content as the voice message will be sent to each triad mother and father to increase the reach of the intervention. We will conduct baseline and endline assessments of infant and young child feeding practices in both the experimental and control groups. Primary outcomes will include the prevalence of anemia and minimum acceptable diet in children. Minimum acceptable diet is an indicator of dietary diversity and a proxy for nutrient adequacy. Secondary outcomes include the frequency of consuming key foods targeted in the intervention over the previous 7 days and infant and young child feeding indicators of complementary feeding of the child. In addition, infant and young child feeding knowledge, beliefs, and norms (of mothers and fathers in triads) and intentions (of mothers in triads) will be included as secondary outcomes.

Enrollment: 488 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 23 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Residing in Thies, Diourbel or Fatick regions of Senegal
• Household is member of village farming group
• Mothers and fathers (or caregivers) that have a child 6-19 months at baseline
• Mothers and fathers (or caregivers) that are 18 years or older
• Mothers and fathers (or caregivers) have the ability and mental capacity to consent to their participation
• Mother/father (or male/female caregivers) have access to mobile phone
• Child between 6-19 months at baseline

Exclusion criteria

-Does not meet study inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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488 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will not receive any intervention. After the endline data collection is completed, the intervention will be delivered to the control group.

Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) voice messaging intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The voice messaging intervention group will receive voice/text messages for a period of 16 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Infant and young child feeding voice messaging intervention