Trial reportThe Journal of nutrition2018
Engagement of Husbands in a Maternal Nutrition Program Substantially Contributed to Greater Intake of Micronutrient Supplements and Dietary Diversity during Pregnancy: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh.
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Assessing the Feasibility of Integrating Maternal Nutrition Interventions Into an Existing Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Platform in Bangladesh: A Cluster-randomized Operational Evaluation
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Interventions to promote health literacy among working-age populations experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage: systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of father-inclusive interventions on maternal, paternal, couples, and early child outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Pooled it
- Implementation characteristics of father-inclusive interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of Engaging Fathers and Bundling Nutrition and Parenting Interventions on Child Nutrition Outcomes and Related Parent Behaviors in Rural Tanzania: Results From EFFECTS, a Five-Arm Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Trial
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- Men's nutrition knowledge is important for women's and children's nutrition in Ethiopia.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Trial
- How Can We Improve the Consumption of a Nutritionally Balanced Maternal Diet in Rural Bangladesh? The Key Elements of the "Balanced Plate" Intervention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Maternal nutrition intervention and maternal complications in 4 districts of Bangladesh: A nested cross-sectional study.PLoS medicine · 2019Trial
- Feasibility and Readiness for Scaling-Up Multiple Micronutrient Supplements in Nepal: A Qualitative Study Using the Expandnet Scaling-Up Framework.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
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- Effect of Nutrition Interventions on the Dietary Diversity Status Among Pregnant Women in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
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- How Anaemia Perceptions Shape Dietary Diversity Practice in Pregnancy: A Health Belief Model Study in Tanzania.The East African health research journal · 2025Article
- Understanding the socio-demographic and programmatic factors associated with adolescent motherhood and its association with child undernutrition in Bangladesh.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Effect of male partners' involvement and support on reproductive, maternal and child health and well-being in East Africa: A scoping review.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Exploring online reproductive health promotion in Canada: a focus on behavioral and environmental influences from a sex and gender perspective.BMC public health · 2024Article
- How Do Social and Behavioral Change Interventions Respond to Social Norms to Improve Women's Diets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? A Scoping Review.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Although husbands may provide support during pregnancy, limited evidence exists on how to promote husbands' engagement and what impact it has. Alive & Thrive integrated nutrition-focused interventions, targeting both wives and husbands, through an existing Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) platform in Bangladesh. Objectives: We evaluated 1) the impact of a nutrition-focused MNCH program, compared with the standard MNCH program, on husbands' behavioral determinants (i.e., awareness, knowledge, self-efficacy) and support to wives to adopt optimal nutrition practices and 2) how much of the previously documented impact on women's supplement intake and dietary diversity was explained by husbands' behavioral determinants and support. Methods: We used a cluster-randomized design with cross-sectional surveys at baseline (2015) and endline (2016) (n = ∼1000 women and ∼700 husbands/survey). We used mixed linear regression accounting for clustering to estimate difference-in-differences (DIDs) for impact on husbands' behavioral determinants and path analysis to examine how much these determinants explained the impact on women's nutrition behaviors. Results: Of husbands in the nutrition-focused MNCH group, 62% were counseled by health workers, 66% attended a husbands' forum, and 34% saw video shows. The nutrition-focused MNCH, compared with the standard MNCH group, resulted in greater husbands' awareness (DID: 2.74 of 10 points), knowledge (DID: 1.31), self-efficacy and social norms with regard to optimal nutrition practices (difference: 1.08), and support to their wives (DID: 1.86). Husbands' behavioral determinants and support explained nearly half of the program impact for maternal supplement intake and one-quarter for dietary diversity. Conclusions: A nutrition-focused MNCH program that promoted and facilitated husbands' engagement during their wives' pregnancies significantly improved husbands' awareness, knowledge, self-efficacy, and support. These improvements substantially explained the program's impact on women's intake of micronutrient supplements and dietary diversity. Targeting wives and husbands and designing activities to engage men in maternal nutrition programs are important to maximize impact. This trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02745249.
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