Helen Keller International's Enhanced-Homestead Food Production Program in Burkina Faso

NCT ID: NCT01825226

Last Updated: 2025-05-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1763 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2016-09-28

Brief Summary

Helen Keller International (HKI) has been implementing homestead food production (HFP) programs in Asia for the past 20 years and has recently begun implementing HFP programs in Africa as well. In general, these programs target women and are designed to improve maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes through three primary pathways: 1. Increasing the availability of micronutrient-rich foods through increased household production of these foods; 2. Raising income through the sale of surplus production; and 3. Increasing knowledge and adoption of optimal nutrition practices, including the consumption of micronutrient-rich foods. Evaluations of HFP programs have consistently demonstrated significant increases in household production and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods. This increased consumption, along with improvements in health and nutrition related knowledge, and increased income, could all contribute to improvements in maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes. However, to date there has been limited understanding as to how these types of programs can be optimized to maximize impacts on these outcomes.

In order to better understand the potential of these types of programs to improve maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes and how this impact may be achieved IFPRI has been collaborating with HKI to evaluate one of their E-HFP programs in Burkina Faso. The evaluation considers impact of the program through the three pathways above, and assesses anthropometric and clinical measures of nutrition, as well as looking at how the programs might be improved.

Conditions

Growth; Anemia

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Program participation

Participation in an enhanced-homestead food production program including home gardening and nutrition and health behavior change communication

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Enhanced-Homestead Food Production Program

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participation in an enhanced-homestead food production program including home gardening and nutrition and health behavior change communication

Control

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Enhanced-Homestead Food Production Program

Participation in an enhanced-homestead food production program including home gardening and nutrition and health behavior change communication

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Mother of child between the ages of 3 and 12 months and her child

Exclusion Criteria

• N/A

• Minimum Eligible Age: 3 Months
• Maximum Eligible Age: 12 Months
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

FED

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

International Food Policy Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Deanna K Olney, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

International Food Policy Research Institute

Andrew Dillon, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Michigan Sate University

Locations

International Food Policy Research Institute

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Countries

United States

References

Nielsen JN, Olney DK, Ouedraogo M, Pedehombga A, Rouamba H, Yago-Wienne F. Process evaluation improves delivery of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture programme in Burkina Faso. Matern Child Nutr. 2018 Jul;14(3):e12573. doi: 10.1111/mcn.12573. Epub 2017 Dec 26.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 29278449 (View on PubMed)

Olney DK, Bliznashka L, Pedehombga A, Dillon A, Ruel MT, Heckert J. A 2-Year Integrated Agriculture and Nutrition Program Targeted to Mothers of Young Children in Burkina Faso Reduces Underweight among Mothers and Increases Their Empowerment: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. J Nutr. 2016 May;146(5):1109-17. doi: 10.3945/jn.115.224261. Epub 2016 Apr 13.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 27075910 (View on PubMed)

Olney DK, Pedehombga A, Ruel MT, Dillon A. A 2-year integrated agriculture and nutrition and health behavior change communication program targeted to women in Burkina Faso reduces anemia, wasting, and diarrhea in children 3-12.9 months of age at baseline: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. J Nutr. 2015 Jun;145(6):1317-24. doi: 10.3945/jn.114.203539. Epub 2015 Apr 22.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 25904734 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

6117001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id