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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01128517
Maternal Education on Complementary Feeding and Infant Outcome
Does Maternal Education on Complementary Feeding Have an Impact on Infant Nutritional Status in Low Middle-income Households? A Community Based Randomized Interventional Study in Karachi, Pakistan.
Overall Objective
• To evaluate impact of maternal educational strategies (teaching sessions by trained lady health workers, verbal, pictorial and demonstrative) regarding appropriate complementary foods of infants, and assess their impact on nutritional status of after six months of educational intervention.
Specific objective • To determine the impact of maternal educational strategies regarding complementary foods by assessing baseline weight, height and mid - upper arm circumference at 2.5 - 5 month of age and then comparing it at 3, 6 and 9 months after enrollment.
(Hypothesis; the investigators hypothesize that there will be a gain of 250 gram weight, 0.5 cm in length and 0.5 cm in MUAC in infants whose mothers received the special education module for complementary feeding, as compare to the children whose mothers doesn't receive education on complementary food.
Secondary objective
• To determine the impact of maternal educational strategies regarding complementary foods by assessing morbidity (number of diarrhea and ARI episodes, at 2.5 - 5 month of age and at then reporting at 3, 6 and 9 months after enrollment).
(Hypothesis; the investigators hypothesize that there will be 10% decrease in incidence of diarrhea episodes and ARI episodes in infants whose mother received the special education module for complementary feeding, as compare to the children whose mothers doesn't receive education on complementary food).
ARI can be define as per IMCI guidelines. Increase breathing rate (age specific) along with cough, cold and or wheezing.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Study population The study will be conducting in Bhainse colony (BC), Karachi. This is a periurban community area, and catering population mainly belonging to low - middle income households. The study population would be the mothers (having infant of 2.5 - 5 months of age) and their infants in these two study areas.
Inclusion Criteria;
- Infants aged 2.5 - 5 months; who are either exclusively breast feed or partially breast feed but have not started complementary feeding or have recently started complementary food (less than 1 week)
- Informed consent Exclusion Criteria;
- Infants found below 5th percentile on weight for age CDC growth charts 23 at baseline will be excluded.
- History of two or more hospital admissions for more than 7 days each
- Presence of serious congenital anomalies (cleft palate, congenital heart disease, neural tube defect) or other chronic conditions impairing feeding (e.g. cerebral palsy)
- Presence of acute illness requiring urgent hospitalization
- Infants from families of very low socioeconomic status where adequate calorie-provision is constrained (assessed by a questionnaire on household possessions of items such as mobile phone, bicycle or other vehicle, TV, cemented construction, fuel used for cooking - wood or gas/LPG)
- Infant already enrolled in any trial with a nutritional intervention will be excluded.
- Infants who at initial clinical examination are found to be severely anemic.
Data outcome measures Measuring Weight, height and Mid-upper arm circumference The investigators measure serial height, weight and mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) for each subject at enrollment and subsequently in each visit. Each infant will be measured four times during the study enrollment.
- Height will be measured twice and the results averaged. Duplicate measures that exceed predefined allowable variation will be resolved by the field supervisor, e.g., by returning to the site with the interviewer to repeat the measurements. The height of infants will be measured (to the nearest 0.1 cm) in the recumbent position using a board with a fixed head and sliding foot piece.
- Weight will be measured to the nearest 0.1 kg using a scale that is calibrated daily.
MUAC will be measure twice each time by using measuring tape. All anthropometric measurements will be taken three times (in each visit) and the mean of the measurements will counted as valid value. Each of the anthropometric indices will be expressed in standard deviation units (SD) from the median of the NCHS/CDC/WHO International Reference Population. Methods are adapted from How to Weigh and Measure Children: Assessing the Nutritional Status of Young Children in Household Surveys, United Nations Department of Technical Cooperation for Development and Statistical Office, 1986. The height and weight measurements will later converted into WAZ, WHZ and HAZ score and the difference in both groups will be analyzed.
- ARI will be measured through standard IMCI guidelines. ARI could be assess by the physician's visit and treatment prescribed.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Sindh
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Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Bhainse colony
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Infants aged 2.5 - 5 months; who are either exclusively breast feed or partially breast feed but have not started complementary feeding or have recently started complementary food (less than 1 week)
- Informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Infants found below 5th percentile on weight for age CDC growth charts at baseline will be excluded
- History of two or more hospital admissions for more than 7 days each
- Presence of serious congenital anomalies (cleft palate, congenital heart disease, neural tube defect) or other chronic conditions impairing feeding (e.g. cerebral palsy)
- Presence of acute illness requiring urgent hospitalization
- Infants from families of very low socioeconomic status where adequate calorie-provision is constrained (assessed by a questionnaire on household possessions of items such as mobile phone, bicycle or other vehicle, TV, cemented construction, fuel used for cooking - wood or gas/LPG)
- Infant already enrolled in any trial with a nutritional intervention will be excluded
- Infants who at initial clinical examination are found to be severely anemic
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Bahavioral
Education about complementary food given to mothers
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CF education to the mothers in intervention arm.
Other Names:
Maternal education on complementary food
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Nutritional status
Time Frame: 7.5 month
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Height, Weight and Mid Upper Arm circumference
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7.5 month
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Diarrhea episodes
Time Frame: 7.5 months
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Diarrhea episodes during the study period.
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7.5 months
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Z score (HAZ, WAZ and WHZ scores)
Time Frame: 7.5 months
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Z scores (wasting, stunting will be measured and compared in between interventional and control group.
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7.5 months
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ARI
Time Frame: 7.5 months
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ARI will be asses by using standard IMCI guidelines, and/or physician prescription and medications prescribed to the infant.
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7.5 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Ali F Saleem, MBBS, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
Study record dates
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Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- MECF
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