NCT06397989 (PEANUT-SMART) is a NA clinical trial of Ready-to-use school food in School Attendance, sponsored by Washington University School of Medicine.

Who is sponsoring NCT06397989?

NCT06397989 is sponsored by Washington University School of Medicine.

What drugs are being tested in NCT06397989?

Interventions in NCT06397989: Ready-to-use school food, Standard meal.

What condition does NCT06397989 study?

NCT06397989 studies School Attendance, School Dropouts, School Enrollment, School Feeding Programs, Child Nutrition.

Is NCT06397989 still recruiting?

NCT06397989 is currently active, enrolled. Last updated 5 June 2026.

Last reviewed 2026-06-05 · How we verify

NCT06397989: PEANUT-SMART

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Peanut-based School Meals in Rural Ghana to Improve Attendance and Retention

Active, enrolled NA Last updated 5 June 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Ready-to-use school food in School Attendance in 5,800 participants. Participants enrolled and being followed up; not accepting new ones.

Timeline

7 May 2024

Primary endpoint
1 July 2026

1 July 2026

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Washington University School of Medicine
Phase	NA
Status	Active, enrolled
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	5,800
Start date	7 May 2024
Primary completion	1 July 2026
Estimated completion	1 July 2026
Sites	20 locations across Ghana

Drugs / interventions tested

Ready-to-use school food
Standard meal

Conditions studied

School Attendance — all drugs for School Attendance →
School Dropouts — all drugs for School Dropouts →
School Enrollment — all drugs for School Enrollment →
School Feeding Programs — all drugs for School Feeding Programs →

Sponsor

Washington University School of Medicine

Who can join

Adults 5 to 17, any sex, with School Attendance or School Dropouts. Healthy volunteers can join.

What's being measured

Primary outcomes are the specific endpoints the trial is designed to prove or disprove.

Attendance percentage
Time frame: 11-30 months from enrollment
Percent attendance will be compared between PM-RUF and rice/millet flour groups using ordinal logistic regression with school as a random effect to account for clustered randomization, and including the covariates used in stratified, covariate-constrained randomization. Odds ratios with 95% confidence interval (CI) will be reported as well as model-derived median of differences with 95% CI.. Highe

Sponsor's own description

The goal of this clinical trial is to test daily provision of peanut paste-based milk-containing ready-to-use school food (PM-RUF) in children 5-17 years of age in Ghana . The main question it aims to answer is: \- Will provision of PM-RUF as a daily school meal improve attendance, improve matriculation, and/or reduce dropouts among Ghanaian schoolchildren 5-17 years of age in Mion District as compared with provision of a common local flour made of rice/millet?

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.

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Verify against primary sources

ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
WHO ICTRP — international registry index
EU Clinical Trials Register
Sponsor press releases (Google)

Data sources for this page

Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06397989 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Washington University School of Medicine
Last refreshed: 5 June 2026

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