Trial reportPloS one2024
Care groups in an integrated nutrition education intervention improved infant growth among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda's West Nile post-emergency settlements: A cluster randomized trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05584969 (Peer Support Groups Improve Infant Growth and Complementary Feeding Practices Among Refugees in Post-emergency Settlements in the West- Nile Region in Uganda), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Peer Support Groups Improve Infant Growth and Complementary Feeding Practices Among Refugees in Post-emergency Settlements in the West- Nile Region in Uganda
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health Cadre Mentoring Model in Stunting Prevention Programs: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Review
- Community-based interventions to improve child nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices: a pilot study in three nutritionally vulnerable Sri Lankan districts.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Everyone Intervention Study: Protocol for a Controlled Before-and-After Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examined the effects of a peer-led integrated nutrition education intervention with maternal social support using Care Groups on infant growth among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.
methodsA community-based cluster-randomized trial (RCT) was conducted among 390 pregnant women (third trimester). Two intervention study arms were Mothers-only(n = 131) and Parents-combined (n = 142) with a Control (n = 117). WHO infant growth standards defined length-for-age z-scores (LAZ) for stunting, weight-for-age z-scores (WAZ) for underweight and weight-for-length z-scores (WLZ) for wasting. The Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) social support index was a proxy measure for social support. A split-plot ANOVA tested the interaction effects of social support, intervention, and time on infant growth after adjusting for covariates. Further, pairwise comparisons explained mean differences in infant growth among the study arms.
resultsThe mean infant birth weight was 3.1 ± 0.5 kg. Over the study period, infant stunting was most prevalent in the Control (≥ 14%) compared to Mothers-only (< 9.5%) and Parents-combined (< 7.4%) arms. There were significant interaction effects of the Care Group intervention and social support by time on infant mean LAZ (F (6, 560) = 28.91, p < 0.001), WAZ (F (5.8, 539.4) = 12.70, p = < 0.001) and WLZ (F (5.3, 492.5) = 3.38, p = 0.004). Simple main effects by the end of the study showed that the intervention improved infant mean LAZ (Mothers-only vs. Control (mean difference, MD) = 2.05, p < 0.001; Parents-combined vs. Control, MD = 2.00, p < 0.001) and WAZ (Mothers-only vs. Control, MD = 1.27, p < 0.001; Parents-combined vs. Control, MD = 1.28, p < 0.001).
conclusionMaternal social support with an integrated nutrition education intervention significantly improved infant stunting and underweight. Nutrition-sensitive approaches focused on reducing child undernutrition among post-emergency refugees may benefit from using Care Groups in programs.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov, NCT05584969.
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