An interventional study of enhanced education on pulse use in complementary foods in Dietary Habits, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Wasting, sponsored by University of Saskatchewan. Completed. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 15 Months, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-05-08.
Sponsored by University of Saskatchewan · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The overall purpose of the study is to evaluate nutrition education interventions to promote pulse incorporated complementary food to the wider rural community through the government system to improve maternal knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) and nutritional status of young children (6 to 24 months). The hypothesis is that nutrition education improves mothers knowledge, attitude and practice of pulse incorporated complementary food and improves dietary intake of iron and zinc and nutritional status of young children.
Only 9% of the population in Southern Ethiopia consumes pulse and pulse total contribution of the diet is less than 4.9% for women and less than 3.3% for children.Young children are at risk of developing malnutrition because of dietary inadequacy. Educational interventions can improve feeding practices and growth of young children. The overall purpose of the study is to evaluate nutrition education interventions to promote pulse incorporated complementary food to the wider rural community through the government system to improve maternal knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) and nutritional status of young children (6 to 24 months). The hypothesis is that nutrition education improves mothers knowledge, attitude and practice of pulse incorporated complementary food and improves dietary intake of iron and zinc and nutritional status of young children. Before, at midline and end of the intervention we will assess the KAP of mothers, dietary intake of iron and zinc and nutritional status of young children. The nutrition education intervention will be given for 9 months. Serum ferritin, serum zinc, C-Reactive protein and hemoglobin and dietary intake of iron and zinc of young children will be measured at the beginning and ending of the intervention.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Households in the control clusters (kebeles) will receive usual nutrition education from Health extension workers, about complementary foods, over 9 months.
Other: enhanced education on pulse use in complementary foods
Additional education sessions from Health extension workers (HEWs) trained on use of pulses for complementary foods (CF). HEWs provide nutrition education programs and counseling about pulse-cereal mix complementary foods, over 9 months.
Other: enhanced education on pulse use in complementary foods
Enhanced Nutrition education with sessions and counseling by health extension workers
Maternal knowledge, attitudes and practices towards pulse-cereal mix complementary food
Using validated questions on knowledge, attitude and practices
Time frame: 9 months
Weight for height Z-score of children
Change in z-score of measured weight and measured height (length) ratio at 9 months
Time frame: 9 months
Zinc status of children
Measurement of serum zinc against WHO standards
Time frame: 9 months
Iron status
iron status as determined by serum ferritin corrected for inflammation using markers, whole hemoglobin to define anemia status using WHO standards.
Time frame: 9 months
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Plan to share: No — Only mean (or median) data will be published. If there are correlations or regressions the r or r2 will be published
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