Trial reportPublic health nutrition2021
Effect of maternal nutritional education and counselling on children's stunting prevalence in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.
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- Article
- Effectiveness of Interventions Utilizing Community Health Worker Model on Reducing Stunting in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Review
- Assessment of Stunting and Its Effect on Wasting in Children Under Two in Rural Madagascar.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- 'Counselling is not just providing information': perceptions of caregivers and stakeholders on the design of nutrition and health counselling interventions for families with young children in rural Kenya.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Male involvement in maternal and child nutrition in low-income informal settlements, Nairobi, Kenya.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of nutrition counseling for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries to improve maternal and infant behavioral, nutritional, and health outcomes: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Towards stunting eradication in Indonesia: Time to invest in community health workers.Public health challenges · 2023Article
- A new methodology to structure a nutrition educational course: the results of a short-term educational-intervention pilot study.Journal of nutritional science · 2023Article
- Maternal education is essential but may not be sufficient to prevent child stunting: a commentary.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Evidence-based strategies needed to combat malnutrition in Sub-Saharan countries facing different stages of nutrition transition.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether the prevalence of stunting differed between an intervention group and a control group and to identify factors associated with the children's linear growth.
designThis was a follow-up study of mother-child pairs who participated in a 2012-2015 cluster randomised controlled trial. Linear mixed effects models were performed to model the children's linear growth and identify the determinants of child linear growth.
settingThe study was conducted in two slums in Nairobi. The intervention group received monthly nutrition education and counselling (NEC) during pregnancy and infancy period.
participantsA birth cohort of 1004 was followed up every 3 months after delivery to the 13th month. However, as a result of dropouts, a total of 438 mother-child pairs participated during the 55-month follow-up. The loss to follow-up baseline characteristics did not differ from those included for analysis.
resultsLength-for-age z-scores decreased from birth to the 13th month, mean -1·42 (sd 2·04), with the control group (33·5 %) reporting a significantly higher prevalence of stunting than the intervention group (28·6 %). Conversely, the scores increased in the 55th month, mean -0·89 (sd 1·04), with significantly more males (16·5 %) stunted in the control group than in the intervention group (8·3 %). Being in the control group, being a male child, often vomiting/regurgitating food, mother's stature of <154 cm and early weaning were negatively associated with children's linear growth.
conclusionsHome-based maternal NEC reduced stunting among under five years; however, the long-term benefits of this intervention on children's health need to be elucidated.
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