Nutrition Intervention of Complementary Milk Feeding to Improve Linear Growth of At Risk and Stunted Children

FrieslandCampina

Status: Completed

Conditions: At Risk or Stunted Children

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Milk supplement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT05670002

Moana

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a non-randomized open label 6 months intervention study that aims to assess the effectiveness of consuming milk daily for 6 months will improve the linear growth rate of children aged 12-36 months.

Enrollment: 118 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 36 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Malaysian child
2. Boys and girls between the age of 12 and 36 months
3. Length-for-age z score (LAZ) <-1.5 SD and > -3 SD according to the WHO Growth standard
4. Weight-for-age z score WAZ <1.0 SD and > -3 SD
5. Parents and/or legal guardian who can speak and read Malay or English language
6. Written informed consent from parents and/or legal guardian
7. Child who are apparently healthy with no obvious on-going infection and no history of chronic illness.
8. Child with no physical and/or mental illness
9. Parents and/or legal guardian who owns a mobile phone or smart phone
10. Mothers who have ever received breastfeeding counselling from a qualified breastfeeding counsellor.

Exclusion criteria

1. Child with zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) value of >65 (at either -T3 or T0)
2. Clinical symptoms of iron deficiency as examined by Doctor even with zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) value between 40-64
3. Child with severe acute malnutrition, other chronic diseases or any congenital disorder or deformity
4. Child with an ongoing episode of diarrhoea or a history of persistent diarrhoea in the past month
5. Child with history of cow's milk allergy/intolerance to milk
6. Child who is already taking multivitamins, including iron, before enrolled to the study
7. Child who is taking breastmilk as part of the diet

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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118 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Other group

Description:

Taking milk supplement

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Milk supplement