Trial reportThe British journal of nutrition2016
Nutrition education linked to agricultural interventions improved child dietary diversity in rural Cambodia.
Trial report in The British journal of nutrition, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04694898 (Integrating Health and Agriculture Services for Improved Household Food Security and Nutritional Status of Mothers and Children 4-6 Years of Age), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Integrating Health and Agriculture Services for Improved Household Food Security and Nutritional Status of Mothers and Children 4-6 Years of Age
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 94 citations in OpenAlex.
- Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs increase dietary diversity in children under 5 years: A review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 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
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Effect of a Homestead Food Production Program on the Prevalence of Diarrhea and Acute Respiratory Infection in Children in Sylhet, Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Trial
- Can nutrition education mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on dietary quality? Cluster-randomised controlled trial evidence in Myanmar's Central Dry Zone.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Trial
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- Nutrition education in Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia: A cluster randomized controlled study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Trial
- Scaled-up nutrition education on pulse-cereal complementary food practice in Ethiopia: a cluster-randomized trial.BMC public health · 2020Trial
- Nutritional status and dietary diversity of school-age children living with HIV: a cross-sectional study in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.BMC public health · 2020Trial
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- Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia.Nutrients · 2018Trial
- Impact of Intervention Strategies on Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.Food and nutrition bulletin · 2025Article
- The link between child dietary diversity and child anemia: The power of colorful plates.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Dietary diversity and associated factors among households and children in internally displaced person camps in Southern Somalia: A cross-sectional study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Enhancing child dietary diversity through cooking demonstration and nutritional education in rural Lao PDR.Tropical medicine and health · 2024Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices are major determinants of chronic malnutrition. The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of a nutrition education (NE) programme aimed at promoting improved IYCF behaviours in combination with an agriculture intervention on children's dietary diversity and nutritional status. From 2012 to 2014, a cluster randomised trial was rolled out in Cambodia in the context of an agriculture and nutrition project of the FAO of the UN. The cross-sectional baseline study was carried out in sixteen pre-selected communes in 2012. Restricted randomisation allotted the communes to either intervention (NE and agriculture intervention) or comparison arms (agriculture intervention only). The impact survey was conducted as a census in all FAO project villages in 2014. Caregivers of children aged 0-23 months were interviewed using standardised questions on socio-economic status and dietary diversity (24-h recall). Anthropometric measurements were taken. A difference-in-differences model was applied. The sample comprised 743 households with children ≥6 months of age at baseline and 921 at impact. After 1 year of NE, 69 % of the intervention households reported to have participated in the NE. Estimated mean child dietary diversity was significantly different at impact between comparison and intervention (3·6 and 3·9, respectively). In particular, the consumption of pro-vitamin A-rich foods and other fruits and vegetables increased. No treatment effects on height-for-age Z-scores could be shown. NE led to improvements in children's diets. For effects on growth, it is assumed that longer NE activities are required to achieve sustainable behaviour change of age-appropriate infant feeding.
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