ArticleElectronic physician2017
Effectiveness of supplementary blended flour based on chickpea and cereals for the treatment of infants with moderate acute malnutrition in Iran: A randomized clinical trial.
Article in Electronic physician, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06792370 (Effectiveness of an Alternative Protocol in the Management of Acute Malnutrition in Children Aged 6-59 Months in Burkina Faso), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of an Alternative Protocol in the Management of Acute Malnutrition in Children Aged 6-59 Months in Burkina Faso: Reduced Dose of RUTF for SAM Children and RUTF Instead of RUSF for MAM Children
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Local Food Interventions for the Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) among Children Aged 6 to 59 Months: A Systematic Review and Non-inferiority Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Management of Moderate Wasting in Children over 6 Months of Age.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Systematic review of the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition using food products.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Pooled it
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- Key Stakeholders' Perspectives on Acute Malnutrition Management Programs for Children Under Five in Bangladesh: Qualitative Insights.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food Among Children With Protein-Calorie Malnutrition.Cureus · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of interventions to manage acute malnutrition in children under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundDespite the decreasing rate of under nutrition children in recent years overall, the negative affect in growth and development make it as a main concern in the world. Applying an available and appropriate supplementary food is a major approach in treating children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM).
objectiveTo compare the effectiveness of a new supplementary blended flour (containing chickpea, rice, wheat and barley, named Shadameen) in combination with multivitamin/mineral supplement and nutritional counseling versus multivitamin/mineral supplement and nutritional counseling alone, in the treatment of children with MAM.
methodsThis randomized controlled trial study was conducted at Heshmatiyeh Hospital in Sabzevar city in Iran, from January 2016 to December 2016. Seventy infants, aged 9 to 24 months with MAM who were referred from urban health centers to the hospital clinic were included. They were randomly assigned to receive, for about 3 months, either multivitamin / mineral supplement and nutritional counseling alone or in combination with an extra supplementary blended food. We analyzed weight, length, weight for length Z score (WLZ), weight for age Z score (WAZ) and length for weight Z score (LAZ), along with recovery rate and adverse events among the two groups. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 16. We used statistics, Chi-square, independent t-test, and Fisher's exact test for the analyses of primary and secondary outcomes.
resultsThe food supplementation infant's mean weight and WLZ and WAZ were greater compared with the other group (0.81±0.29 gr and 0.55±0.33 gr, p=0.002), (0.36±0.36 and 0.02±0.52, p=0.003), (0.40±0.33 and 0.09±0.37, p=0.001). The recovery rate in the food supplemented group was significantly higher than the other group (68.4%, 31.6%, p=0.001). No adverse reactions were observed. There were no significant differences in LAZ at the end of the study between the two groups (p=0.53).
conclusionThis study showed that Shadameen in combination with multivitamin/mineral and counselling therapy can be more effective in decreasing the wasting rate of children with MAM than vitamin/mineral and counseling therapy alone.
trial registrationThe trial was registered at the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (http://www.irct.ir) with the Irct ID: IRCT2015040921670N1.
fundingThis study was financially supported by the vice chancellor for research office, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.
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