Trial reportMaternal & child nutrition2020
Nutritional training in a humanitarian context: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial.
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- Implementation of essential newborn care in settings of high-intensity armed conflict: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2026Pooled it
- Evidence for incentive-based strategies to promote breastfeeding: a systematic literature review of randomised controlled trials.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Evidence on Strategies for Integrating Nutrition Interventions with Health and Immunization Systems in Conflict-affected Areas of Low- and Lower-middle-income Settings-A Systematic Review.Nutrition reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review of newborn health interventions in humanitarian settings.BMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- Nutritional training in a humanitarian context: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Trial
- Do social protection programmes affect the burden of breast and cervical cancer? A systematic review.Health policy OPEN · 2024Review
- Evidence on the impact of community health workers in the prevention, identification, and management of undernutrition amongst children under the age of five in conflict-affected or fragile settings: a systematic literature review.Conflict and health · 2024Review
- Interventions and Programs to Promote Breastfeeding in Arabic-Speaking Countries: A Scoping Review.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- Degree-Granting Nutrition Programs in the Republic of Yemen: A Status Report on Postsecondary Education.Medical science educator · 2022Article
- Evidence on Child Nutrition Recommendations and Challenges in Crisis Settings: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Behavioural change communication interventions have been shown to be effective at improving infant and young child nutrition knowledge and practices. However, evidence in humanitarian response contexts is scarce. Using data on secondary outcomes of breastfeeding, water treatment, and knowledge from a cluster randomized control trial of the Yemen Cash for Nutrition programme's impact on child nutritional status, this paper shows that the programme significantly improved knowledge and practices for poor women with young children in the pilot districts. The intervention consisted of cash transfers and monthly group nutrition education sessions led by locally recruited community health volunteers. Data are based on self-reports by participants. Estimating impacts among all 1,945 women in 190 clusters randomly assigned to treatment versus control and controlling for baseline levels and community characteristic and adjusting for noncompliance with randomization, the programme increased the probability of breastfeeding initiation within the first hour after delivery by 15.6% points (p < .05; control = 74.4% and treatment = 83.6%), the probability of exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months by 14.4% points (control = 13.5% and treatment = 25.3%), the probability of households treating water consumed by adults by 16.7% points (p < .01; control = 13.9% and treatment = 23.4%), and treating water consumed by children under two by 10.3% points (p < .10; control = 31.2% and treatment = 37.9%). Impacts on knowledge and breastfeeding are similar for both literate and illiterate women, and water treatment impacts are significantly larger for literate women. This study was registered at 3ie (RIDIE-STUDY-ID-5b4eff881b29a) and funded by the Nordic Trust Fund and Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research programme on Policies, Institutions, and Markets.
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