Effectiveness of Child Centered Counseling on Child Nutrition Status (LUCOMAI)

Effectiveness of Child Centered Counseling on Child Nutrition Status. A Cluster Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso.

Hypothesis N°1: The "children growth promotion based on approach centered on their specific needs" enhances caretakers and health workers skills, knowledge and practices on breastfeeding, complementary feeding and child care.

Hypothesis N°1: children growth promotion based on approach centered on their specific needs" approach improves children growth and health.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Malnutrition
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Growth promotion based on child centered approach

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 2341
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Burkina Faso
  • Kadiogo
    • Ouagadougou, Kadiogo, Burkina Faso, 06 BP 7192
      • Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

-Inclusion Criteria: all women of childbearing age in the third trimester of pregnancy, living in the study area for at least one year at the time of the inclusion and who gave informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control
Experimental: Growth promotion based on child centered approach	Behavioral: Growth promotion based on child centered approach; - Preventive consultations will be reorganized. From the child birth, a follow-up schedule will be establish in agreement with the mother, and the subsequent appointment will be renew at each meeting. Ten contacts will be organized for children under two years. During the first year, the number of contacts will be limited to 6 at birth , 2 , 3, 4 and 9 months to complete the vaccination schedule and an additional contact at 7 months to allow monitoring during the introduction of complementary foods. Four contacts will be held for the second year to 12, 15, 18 and 24 months to monitor the transition from complementary food to the family diet. - Inclusion of Child Centered growth promotion approach. During preventive consultations, specific messages according to the child age, health and nutritional status will be developed, based on scientific evidences and adapted to the experience and knowledge of health workers.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Incidence of acute malnutrition	18 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Incidence of Diarrhea, fever, Acute respiratory infection	18 months

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
incidence of exclusive breastfeeding rates	18 months
Child dietary diversity score	18 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Burkina Faso
• Collaborators: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: February 1, 2009
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2012
• Study Completion (Actual): March 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 30, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 5, 2013
• First Posted (Estimate): November 6, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): November 6, 2013
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 5, 2013
• Last Verified: October 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Prevention,; Acute malnutrition; Cluster Randomized Trial,; Nutrition counseling,; Caretaker's knowledge; Child growth,
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Nutrition Disorders; Malnutrition
• Other Study ID Numbers: IRSSOOO1