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NCT04504617

Nutrition Education Intervention to Enhance Complementary Feeding Practices Among Infants in Southern Ethiopia

Status unknown NA Last updated 7 August 2020
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Nutrition education intervention to enhance complementary feeding practices in Infant Malnutrition in 180 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline
2 December 2019
Primary endpoint
30 September 2020
30 September 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsorTexas Tech University
PhaseNA
StatusStatus unknown
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designcrossover
Maskingnone
Primary purposeprevention
Enrollment180
Start date2 December 2019
Primary completion30 September 2020
Estimated completion30 September 2020
Sites1 location across Ethiopia

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Texas Tech University

Who can join

Adults 6 Months to 23 Months, any sex, with Infant Malnutrition. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Child undernutrition is a worldwide public health problem that has persisted in African countries. For instance, the most recently reported prevalence rates of stunting (38%), underweight (24%), and wasting (10%) among children under the age of five in Ethiopia is higher than the global prevalence. The causes of undernutrition are classified in the following manner: immediate causes, such as inadequate dietary intakes; underlying causes, such as household food insecurity and inadequate care and feeding practices; and basic causes, which involve the household's inadequate access to education, employment, and income, among others. Evidence has demonstrated that nutrition education interventions (NEI) may influence both underlying and immediate causes of child undernutrition. For instance, nutrition education interventions have the potential of preventing the underlying causes of child undernutrition by improving mothers' knowledge in care and feeding practices, and further improving the quality and quantity of dietary intake, which is considered an immediate cause of child undernutrition. Moreover, nutrition education interventions designed to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, such as dietary diversity, frequency, and adequacy, are considered a high impact strategy that may substantially reduce stunting. Preliminary data from Hawassa University (collaborating institution in this project) demonstrated that approximately 86% of the children residing in Arsi Negele, Wondo Genet, and Dale districts in Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' (SNNP) regions in Ethiopia do not receive adequate complementary feeding practices. Such lack of optimal complementary feeding practices may compromise a child's growth, development, and survival. Therefore, there is a critical need for improving child complementary feeding practices to promote their well-being and adequate nutritional status. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to improve child feeding practices and related nutritional status by improving the mother's knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of complementary feeding practices for their children aged six to 23 months in three woredas located in Oromia and SNNP. It is hypothesized that after the NEI mothers will improve their children' dietary diversity, frequency and adequacy.

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