ArticleCureus2026
Effect of Structured Nutrition Education on Maternal and Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF)-Related Knowledge and Child Growth: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Urban Slums of Belagavi, India.
Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundChild malnutrition remains a critical public health crisis in India, particularly within urban slum populations where suboptimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices are prevalent. Maternal knowledge and behavior serve as the primary determinants of dietary intake and physical growth during the first two years of life. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a structured nutrition education intervention delivered to mothers of children aged six to 24 months attending Anganwadi centers in Belagavi, India.
methodsA randomized controlled trial was conducted involving 62 mother-child pairs recruited from urban slum Anganwadi centers. Participants were randomized into an intervention group of 31 (50%) participants and a control group of 31 (50%) participants. The intervention group received structured nutrition education via PowerPoint (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corp.) presentations and handouts (pamphlets) covering breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and dietary diversity, while the control group received only standard pamphlets. Maternal knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) and child anthropometric measurements (weight, height, mid-upper arm circumference {MUAC}) were assessed at baseline and at a three-month follow-up.
resultsAt baseline, both groups were comparable across sociodemographic and nutritional indicators. Post-intervention, the intervention group demonstrated significantly higher knowledge scores (16.29±3.34) compared to the control group (14.16±2.40; p<0.01). Specifically, maternal awareness of early breastfeeding initiation in the intervention group increased from 15 (48.4%) to 28 (90.3%), and knowledge of exclusive breastfeeding rose from five (16.1%) to 24 (77.4%). Practice scores were significantly higher in the intervention group (19.13±1.63) than in the control group (17.68±1.33; p<0.01). Reported practices of early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding in the intervention group improved from 19 (62.5%) to 31 (100%). Although maternal knowledge and practices improved significantly, no significant post-intervention difference in attitude scores was observed between groups. While weight-based indicators showed no significant differences, height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) remained significantly better in the intervention group (p<0.01) compared to the control group.
conclusionsA structured, community-based nutrition education intervention significantly enhances maternal IYCF knowledge and practices. These behavioral improvements were associated with stabilized HAZ scores in the intervention group, suggesting that targeted maternal education is a feasible and effective strategy to address malnutrition and support growth stabilization in underprivileged urban settings.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.