Trial reportJournal of health, population, and nutrition2014
Impact of maternal education about complementary feeding on their infants' nutritional outcomes in low- and middle-income households: a community-based randomized interventional study in Karachi, Pakistan.
Trial report in Journal of health, population, and nutrition, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05502978 (Effect of Education Using WhatsApp and Face-to-Face Meetings Concerning Infant and Young Child Feeding in the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Nutritional Status of Infants), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effect of Education Using WhatsApp and Face-to-Face Meetings Concerning Infant and Young Child Feeding in the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Nutritional Status of Infants: Protocol for a Prospective Interventional Study
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- The effectiveness of interventions on nutrition social behaviour change communication in improving child nutritional status within the first 1000 days: Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Community Nutrition-Specific Interventions on Improving Malnutrition of Children under 5 Years of Age in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Education of family members to support weaning to solids and nutrition in later infancy in term-born infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
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- Interventions to improve linear growth during complementary feeding period for children aged 6-24 months living in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Gates open research · 2019Pooled it
- Educational interventions for improving primary caregiver complementary feeding practices for children aged 24 months and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Effect of complementary feeding behaviour change communication delivered through community-level actors on infant growth and morbidity in rural communities of West Gojjam Zone, Northwest Ethiopia: A cluster-randomized controlled trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Trial
- Scaled-up nutrition education on pulse-cereal complementary food practice in Ethiopia: a cluster-randomized trial.BMC public health · 2020Trial
- Nutritional training in a humanitarian context: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Trial
- Nutrition education linked to agricultural interventions improved child dietary diversity in rural Cambodia.The British journal of nutrition · 2016Trial
- From pregnancy to plate: understanding barriers and facilitators of fish consumption during complementary feeding.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Interpersonal counseling sessions during routine immunization visits improve infant feeding practices - A randomized controlled trial.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Prevalence, trend, and inequality of prolonged exclusive breastfeeding among children aged 6-23 months old in India from 1992-2021: A cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Identifying and understanding barriers to optimal complementary feeding in Kenya.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- The effect of nutrition and health behavior change communication through community-level actors on the nutritional status of pregnant women in the Ambo district, Ethiopia: A randomized controlled trial.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- Improving nutritional status of children using artificial intelligence-based mobile application postsurgery: randomised controlled trial.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2023Article
- Between and Within-Country Variations in Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in South Asia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Association between Mother's Education and Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in South Asia.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
This cluster-randomized interventional trial at periurban settings of Karachi was conducted to evaluate the impact of maternal educational messages regarding appropriate complementary feeding (CF) on the nutritional status of their infants after 30 weeks of educational interventions delivered by trained community health workers. Mothers in the intervention group received three education modules about breastfeeding (BF) and appropriate CF at a baseline visit and two subsequent visits 10 weeks apart. The control group received advice about BF according to national guidelines. Infants' growth [weight, length, and mid-upper arm-circumference (MUAC), stunting, wasting, and underweight] were measured at four time points. At the end of the study, infants in the intervention group had a higher mean weight of 350 g (p=0.001); length of 0.66 cm (p=0.001), and MUAC of 0.46 cm (p=0.002) compared to the controls; proportionate reduction of stunting and underweight were 10% (84% vs. 74%; OR(adj) 8.36 (5.6-12.42) and 5% (25% vs. 20%; OR(adj) 0.75 (0.4-1.79) in the intervention compared to the control group. For relatively food-secure populations, educational interventions about appropriate CF to mothers had a direct positive impact on linear growth of their infants.
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