NCT03946475

Remaja ASIK and Optimized Food-based Recommendations

Completed NA Last updated 3 December 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Intervention group in Anemia in 324 participants. Completed in 10 May 2017.

Timeline

8 February 2016

Primary endpoint
10 May 2017

10 May 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	SEAMEO Regional Centre for Food and Nutrition
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	324
Start date	8 February 2016
Primary completion	10 May 2017
Estimated completion	10 May 2017
Sites	1 location across Indonesia

Drugs / interventions tested

• Intervention group — full drug profile →

Conditions studied

• Anemia — all drugs for Anemia →

Sponsor

SEAMEO Regional Centre for Food and Nutrition

Who can join

Adults 14 to 18, female only, with Anemia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Good nutritional status among adolescents is a window of opportunity to produce healthy adults or pregnant individuals. Modifying the dietary habits during adolescent girls may be a sustainable approach to ensure good nutritional status among population because those habits tend to stay for a life time. Over many years, there has much effort to overcome anemia. Iron supplementation and fortification have been the most popular and convenient strategies to combat anemia. However, there has not much success due to the high still prevalence of anemia among children and women reproductive age. Food-based approach has been defined as one of the most effective programs to combat or reduce the prevalence of anemia. In the meantime, food based recommendations (FBR) formulation through linear programming (LP) approach has been found to be more effective than the traditional method of developing FBRs called "trial and error". LP approach allows us to develop optimized diet for target population with addition to detect the nutrient problem in specific region. This study therefore aims to identify the nutrient problems in the community, to develop optimized FBR employing the LP approach and to assess effect of nutrition education using optimized FBR in order to improve the nutritional and hemoglobin status among adolescent schoolgirls in rural Malang City.

This study was conducted in several phases: 1) cross-sectional study 2) intervention study. Cross-sectional study was aimed to formulate optimized food based recommendations using linear programming. Intervention study was performed during 20 weeks with Remaja ASIK as the tagline which means Active, Healthy, Smart, and Creative. Adolescent schoolgirls aged 14-18 years was the subject of this study and 496 subjects were selected, including 152 for first phase and 344 for third phase. In addition, selected school based on inclusion criteria: 1) not boarding schools; and 2) having large number of students. In doing data collection, we collected socioecodemoghraphic data, anthropometry, biochemical data, dietary data, and cogitive performance.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Effect of optimized food-based recommendations on nutrient intakes, hemoglobin levels, and memory performance of adolescent girls in East Java, Indonesia.
   Suciyanti D, Kolopaking R, Mustafa A, Iwan S, et al · · 2025 · PMID 39856679 · DOI 10.1186/s12937-024-01061-w