An interventional study of multisectoral package of activities in Malnutrition, Child, sponsored by Tufts University. Completed at 1 site in Chad. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 59 Months, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-03-05.
Sponsored by Tufts University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
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The study evaluates the impact of a multi-sectoral intervention (water, sanitation, and hygiene; training on climate smart activities; care groups for mothers; market gardens) on the prevalence of acute malnutrition as the primary outcome using a randomized intervention trial between 2012-2017 with four points of data collection (2012, 2014, 2015, and 2017).
Concern Worldwide has developed a model of intervention called Community Resilience to Acute Malnutrition (CRAM). This model is based on the need for (a) the introduction of longer-term programming to build community resilience to shocks, while recognising that there may be a need for humanitarian intervention, and (b) a multi-sectoral package of activities given experience in programming from other settings. The goal of the study is to rigorously test the impact of the model and associated activities on community resilience to shocks in the Goz Beida area of Chad. Where community resilience is proxied by the primary outcome variable: acute malnutrition.
In order to answer this question, 69 villages had been randomized to either receive the full multi-sectoral program or not. In each village, approximately 20 households were surveyed (randomly selected from a household list from a previous emergency distribution) for a total of 1420 households. Those households were then surveyed in November/December 2012 (prior to the intervention), and again a the same time period in 2014, 2015, and 2017.
Data was collected on household demographics, livelihoods, child health, and nutrition, including child (6-59 months) anthropometry.
168 studies on the registry are indexed under Child Nutrition Disorders; 35 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 1,420 is above the median of 400 across 133 interventional studies indexed under Child Nutrition Disorders.
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Villages in the experimental arm received the full multi-sectoral package of village level activities, including having a well dug, a shared latrine installed, training on handwashing and hygiene across the water chain, training on conservation agriculture techniques, care groups for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, and training on market gardens.
Behavioral: multisectoral package of activities
Villages in the control arm did not receive teh multi-sectoral package of village level activities.
A multi-sectoral package of village level activities, including having a well dug, a shared latrine installed, training on handwashing and hygiene across the water chain, training on conservation agriculture techniques, care groups for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, and training on market gardens.
Acute Malnutrition
prevalence of wasting (weight for age z-score\<-2)
Time frame: 5 years
Chronic Malnutrition
prevalence of stunting (height for age z-score\<-2)
Time frame: 5 years
height for age
height for age z-score
Time frame: 5 years
child morbidity
Child ill in the past two weeks
Time frame: 5 years
weight for height
weight for height z-score
Time frame: 5 years
Plan to share: No
Ran from Nov 2012 to primary completion in Jan 2018, 62 months.
Of 82 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Child Nutrition Disorders, half reached primary completion within 19 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 35. This study's 62 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 85 studies reached it within 19 months; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 36.
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