Effectiveness of Child Centered Counseling on Child Nutrition Status

NCT ID: NCT01977365

Last Updated: 2013-11-06

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

2341 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-02-28

Study Completion Date

2012-03-31

Brief Summary

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Hypothesis N°1: The "children growth promotion based on approach centered on their specific needs" enhances caretakers and health workers skills, knowledge and practices on breastfeeding, complementary feeding and child care.

Hypothesis N°1: children growth promotion based on approach centered on their specific needs" approach improves children growth and health.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Malnutrition

Keywords

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Cluster Randomized Trial, Nutrition counseling, Caretaker's knowledge Child growth, Prevention, Acute malnutrition

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Growth promotion based on child centered approach

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Growth promotion based on child centered approach

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

\- Preventive consultations will be reorganized. From the child birth, a follow-up schedule will be establish in agreement with the mother, and the subsequent appointment will be renew at each meeting.

Ten contacts will be organized for children under two years. During the first year, the number of contacts will be limited to 6 at birth , 2 , 3, 4 and 9 months to complete the vaccination schedule and an additional contact at 7 months to allow monitoring during the introduction of complementary foods.

Four contacts will be held for the second year to 12, 15, 18 and 24 months to monitor the transition from complementary food to the family diet.

\- Inclusion of Child Centered growth promotion approach. During preventive consultations, specific messages according to the child age, health and nutritional status will be developed, based on scientific evidences and adapted to the experience and knowledge of health workers.

Control

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Growth promotion based on child centered approach

\- Preventive consultations will be reorganized. From the child birth, a follow-up schedule will be establish in agreement with the mother, and the subsequent appointment will be renew at each meeting.

Ten contacts will be organized for children under two years. During the first year, the number of contacts will be limited to 6 at birth , 2 , 3, 4 and 9 months to complete the vaccination schedule and an additional contact at 7 months to allow monitoring during the introduction of complementary foods.

Four contacts will be held for the second year to 12, 15, 18 and 24 months to monitor the transition from complementary food to the family diet.

\- Inclusion of Child Centered growth promotion approach. During preventive consultations, specific messages according to the child age, health and nutritional status will be developed, based on scientific evidences and adapted to the experience and knowledge of health workers.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

-Inclusion Criteria: all women of childbearing age in the third trimester of pregnancy, living in the study area for at least one year at the time of the inclusion and who gave informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:
Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Burkina Faso

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Laetitia Ouedraogo

Chargée de Recherche

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé

Ouagadougou, Kadiogo, Burkina Faso

Site Status

Countries

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Burkina Faso

Other Identifiers

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IRSSOOO1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id