School Feeding to Improve Cognitive Performance in Disadvantaged Children

University of Central Lancashire

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cognitive Performance

Treatments: Other: No school meal; Other: School meal; Other: School meal plus micronutrient powder

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05498129

School Feeding

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial investigated the impact of providing a regular meal with and without additional multiple micronutrients for children in Northwest Pakistan on their performance at school, in comparison to a local government school that served as a control i.e. no school meal.

Enrollment: 210 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Prep or class 1
• Male/ female

Exclusion criteria

• Any contraindicating condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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210 participants in 3 patient groups

No school meal

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: No school meal

School meal

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: School meal

School meal plus micronutrient powder

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: School meal plus micronutrient powder