Status:
UNKNOWN
Nutrition Education Package for Infants and Young Child Feeding and Health in Rural Tanzania
Lead Sponsor:
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Collaborating Sponsors:
University Ghent
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
Conditions:
Growth Retardation
Malnutrition
Eligibility:
All Genders
6-7 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Building on the success of community-based peer education and counselling in breastfeeding, it is possible to address young child feeding and health practices in the surveyed district. Opportunities t...
Detailed Description
Design: A parallel cluster randomised controlled trial will be conducted in rural central Tanzania in 9 intervention and 9 control villages. A simple randomisation with a 1:1 allocation using a list ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Infants aged 6-7 months at the time of recruitment into the study
- Infants currently being breastfed
- Parents (or caregivers) anticipated local residence for the study duration
Exclusion
- Congenital or chronic abnormalities impairing feeding or physical growth measurements
- Oedema
- Severely ill or clinical complications warranting hospitalisation
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2014
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
August 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
600 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02249754
Start Date
September 1 2014
End Date
August 1 2015
Last Update
November 19 2014
Active Locations (1)
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Mpwapwa District
Mpwapwa, Dodoma, Tanzania