Trial reportBMC public health2014
Effectiveness of a nutrition education package in improving feeding practices, dietary adequacy and growth of infants and young children in rural Tanzania: rationale, design and methods of a cluster randomised trial.
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Effectiveness of a Nutrition Education Package in Improving Feeding Practices, Dietary Adequacy and Growth of Infants and Young Children in Rural Tanzania
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Educational interventions for improving primary caregiver complementary feeding practices for children aged 24 months and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of different interventions in public nurseries based on food and nutrition education: promoting breast-feeding and healthy complementary feeding.Public health nutrition · 2018Trial
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- Effect of a novel house (Star home) and toilet design on domestic fly densities in rural Tanzania.Parasites & vectors · 2025Article
- Designing a Contextualized Food-Based Strategy to Improve the Dietary Diversity of Children in Rural Farming Households in Central Uganda.Food and nutrition bulletin · 2024Article
- Household food security, child dietary diversity and coping strategies among rural households. The case of Kole District in northern Uganda.Dialogues in health · 2023Article
- The factors influencing inappropriate child feeding practices among families receiving nutrition allowance in the Himalayan region of Nepal.BMC nutrition · 2023Article
- Using preschoolers to improve caregivers' knowledge, attitude, and practices relating to biofortified crops: Evidence from a randomized nutrition education trial in Kenya.Food science & nutrition · 2022Article
- The role of nutrition-sensitive agriculture combined with behavioral interventions in childhood growth in Ethiopia: An adequacy evaluation study.Health science reports · 2022Article
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- Anaemia and its determinants among young children aged 6-23 months in Ethiopia (2005-2016).Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Factors Associated With Uptake of Iron Supplement During Pregnancy Among Women of Reproductive Age in Tanzania: an Analysis of Data From the 2015 to 2016 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicators Survey.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Breastfeeding Rate, Food Supplementation, Dietary Diversity Among Children Aged 6-59 Months, and Associated Factors in Papua New Guinea.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- A scoping review of social-behaviour change techniques applied in complementary feeding interventions.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Article
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- An Educational Intervention to Mothers Improved the Nutritional Status of Mexican Children Younger Than 5 Years Old With Mild to Moderate Malnutrition.Global pediatric health · 2019Article
- Assessing the Impact of Health Education on Physical Measurements of Children in Bangladesh: A Non-Randomized Controlled Trial.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
backgroundStrategies to improve infant and young child nutrition in low- and middle- income countries need to be implemented at scale. We contextualised and packaged successful strategies into a feasible intervention for implementation in rural Tanzania. Opportunities that can optimise delivery of the intervention and encourage behaviour change include mothers willingness to modifying practices; support of family members; seasonal availability and accessibility of foods; established set-up of village peers and functioning health system. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a nutrition education package in improving feeding practices, dietary adequacy and growth as compared to routine health education. METHODS/
designA parallel cluster randomised controlled trial will be conducted in rural central Tanzania in 9 intervention and 9 control villages. The control group will receive routine health education offered monthly by health staff at health facilities. The intervention group will receive a nutrition education package in addition to the routine health education. The education package is comprised of four components: 1) education and counselling of mothers, 2) training community-based nutrition counsellors and monthly home visits, 3) sensitisation meetings with health staff and family members, and 4) supervision of community-based nutrition counsellors. The duration of the intervention is 9 months and infants will be recruited at 6 months of age. Primary outcome (linear growth as length-for-age Z-scores) and secondary outcomes (changes in weight-for-length Z-scores; mean intake of energy, fat, iron and zinc from complementary foods; proportion of children consuming 4 or more food groups and recommended number of semi-solid/soft meals and snacks per day; maternal level of knowledge and performance of recommended practices) will be assessed at baseline and ages 9, 12 and 15 months. Process evaluation will document reach, dose and fidelity of the intervention and context at 8 and 15 months. DISCUSSION: Results of the trial will provide evidence of the effectiveness of the nutrition education package in community settings of rural Tanzania. They will provide recommendations for strengthening the nutrition component of health education in child health services.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02249754, September 25, 2014.
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