Supplementary Food for Moderate Acute Malnutrition in Children

PepsiCo

Status

Completed

Conditions

Moderate Acute Malnutrition

Treatments

Other: Nutritional Oats Cookie

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT02571764

PEP-1409

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children with moderate acute malnutrition will be recruited in order to receive an intervention which consists in the consumption of a single serving of SF-cookies daily, 7-days a week for 12 months and 12 educational sessions on health and nutrition.

Enrollment

248 patients

Sex

All

Ages

2 to 5 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Children (2-5 years old), who are from low socioeconomic classes (E and D classes),
reside in rural areas, and with WHZ- between > -3 and ≤ -2, and
informed consent given by the subject's mother or caregiver

Exclusion criteria

Severe acute malnutrition (HAZ, WAZ and WHZ-scores ≤-3) based on the 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) reference values (24)
Vitamin A deficiency (softening, ulceration, cloudiness of the cornea, and dryness of the conjunctivitis), and iodine deficiency (visible goiter)
(3 or more episodes of loose/liquid stools/per day and lasted more than 24-hours), fever (high temperature that lasted more than 24 hours as reported by the mother/caregiver), and respiratory infections (coughing and/or runny nose that last more than 24 hours).
Current consumption of other supplementary foods.
Peanut or other ingredient allergy based on prior report. If some direct family member is allergic to peanuts, child would not be enrolled.