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Active, not recruitingNCT05393934Updated Feb 26, 2024

Growth Faltering Intervention Using Pediatric Nutritional Care (PNC) vs.PNC& FSMP

An interventional study of High dense nutrients formula and Pediatric Nutrition Care (PNC) in Growth Failure, sponsored by Danone Specialized Nutrition Indonesia. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in Indonesia. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 12 Months. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-02-26.

Sponsored by Danone Specialized Nutrition Indonesia (part of Danone) · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
188
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
6 Months to 12 Months
Sex
All
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Study summary

Study will be done by consortium of pediatrician from Indonesia, Japan, and Germany. This team will act as leaders while the field assistant will consist of nutritionist and general practitioner. The chosen primary endpoint is the improvement of weight for age (grams) of the sample after one month of intervention. Participants are weight faltering babies aged 6-12 months at study entry, with the weight increments below P 15th of WHO weight increments tables whose parents agreed to be included in the study by providing written informed consent.

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Study will be done by consortium of pediatrician from Indonesia, Japan, and Germany. This team will act as leaders while the field assistant will consist of nutritionist and general practitioner. The chosen primary endpoint is the improvement of weight for age (grams) of the sample after one month of intervention. Participants are weight faltering babies aged 6-12 months at study entry, with the weight increments below P 15th of WHO weight increments tables whose parents agreed to be included in the study by providing written informed consent. The investigators aim to include 2 x 94 babies for a randomized control trial study residing in Makassar, South Sulawesi. They will be selected and enrolled after matching for age and sex. All babies will be examined in for their nutritional status, demographics, medical history, preexisting conditions, medication use, their dietary analysis (by 3-days food recalls), gut microbiota and fecal metabolome. The direct (face to face) monitoring sessions will be conducted at the enrollment, one month, two months and at the end of the study (at the third month) by giving routine clinical care to all enrolled babies, which included physical examination, growth monitoring, health, and nutrition education (counseling on infant and young child feeding practices, personal hygiene, and hand washing). This monitoring session will be held by practitioner and nutritionist. Subjects will be chosen based of the inclusion \& exclusion criteria. There are two research groups. The first group will be given pediatric nutrition care (PNC). In this group parents will receive nutritional advice about how many calories are needed, the type and form of food that can be given so that the baby can gain weight accordingly. In the second group, subject will receive PNC and food for special medically purposes/FSMP that will be given according to daily calorie needs which are determined based on ideal body weight (BB) according to body length. In general, FSMP will be given 3 times a day, according to the needs of each subject. Parents will be taught about preparation of FSMP e.g., dissolving and the correct amount of product (image will be attached in the appendix). FSMP will be given during the research period and will be discontinued when participant do not need it anymore.

Infants whose weight gain is below the 5th percentile of the WHO weight gain table and infants who are already mildly undernourished will be immediately given PNC + FSMP and not included in the PNC group. At the beginning of the study, parents will be asked about the type of food and milk consumed, amount and eating patterns, the incidence of illness such as fever, cough, runny nose, diarrhea, vomiting, sleep, and the general condition of the baby. Research team till measure body weight, length, head circumference and take the feces for microbiota and metabolome examination before intervention. Feces obtained will be stored at temperatures below 5ºC for a maximum of 24 hours. Subjects will be monitored for 4 weeks. In the fourth weeks there will be an examination of body weight, length, episodes of illness and stool collection for the second examination of microbiota and metabolome. At the end of the first month intervention, the investigators will ask the parents for giving permission to draw the blood from their children to see the plasma metabolome.

If within 4 weeks, the baby has gained a good weight gain according to the existing table (above P 15), then the subject does not need to take FSMP again but will continue to be monitored every month to prevent the second growth faltering event. If the baby is initially in the PNC group and does not gain good weight, PNC + FSMP will be given. The intervention and monitoring will be done for a total of 12 weeks. Every week, the total volume that had been consumed will be monitored by the field assistant by phone. Product acceptance questionnaires for the FSMP product will be assessed using a questionnaire during the monitoring visits at visit 1, 2 and 3. The occurrence of adverse events and medication use was recorded throughout the whole study period. All subjects will be provided with BPJS insurance during the study period up to one month after the study is completed.

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Conditions studied

  • Growth Failure

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In context

Failure to Thrive

84 studies on the registry are indexed under Failure to Thrive; 12 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 188 is above the median of 100 across 56 interventional studies indexed under Failure to Thrive.

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Lead sponsor

Danone Specialized Nutrition Indonesia is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
6 Months to 12 Months
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Weight faltering babies (weight increments below percentile 15th of weight increments table WHO age 6-12 month-old with good nutritional or mild undernutrition status
  • Have a growth chart monitoring (weight, length and head circumference) at least one time (at birth).
  • Have the data of height and weight from father and mother (genetic height potential)
  • No major congenital anomaly, severely stunted at birth, not having thyroid problem, not suffered from prominent gastrointestinal diseases, severe diseases at the time of inclusion (severe pneumonia, severe dehydration, etc)
  • Not suffered from parasitic manifestation by examining the faecel sample at the time of recruitment
  • Parents want to follow the study by signing the

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects with stunting
  • Subject in the severe disease condition at the time of recruitment
  • Severe acute malnutrition
  • Parents do not want to participate in the study
  • Presence of cow's milk allergy
  • Presence of lactose intolerance
  • Presence of galactosemia
  • Condition needing a special diet, like major renal and hepatic dysfunction
  • Have conditions that will influence the nutritional status such as moderate to severe dehydration, organomegaly, oedema.
  • Babies with weight more than ideal body weight
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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Informed consent

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
188 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Placebo comparator
    PNC (Pediatric Nutrition Care)

    This first group will be given pediatric nutrition care (PNC) in visit 0. In this group parents will receive nutritional advice about how many calories are needed, the type and form of food that can be given so that the baby can gain weight accordingly.

    Other: Pediatric Nutrition Care (PNC)

  • Active comparator
    FSMP (Food for Special Medical Purposes) & PNC (Pediatric Nutrition Care)

    In this second group, subject will receive PNC in visit 0 and food for special medically purposes/FSMP that will be given according to daily calorie needs which are determined based on ideal body weight (BB) according to body length. In general, FSMP will be given 3 times a day, according to the needs of each subject. Parents will be taught about preparation of FSMP e.g. dissolving and the correct amount of product (image will be attached in the appendix). FSMP will be given during the research period and will be discontinued when not needed anymore.

    Other: High dense nutrients formula · Other: Pediatric Nutrition Care (PNC)

Interventions

  • OtherHigh dense nutrients formula

    High dense nutrients formula: Powder based Infant formula with High Nutrients' Density with energy density of 100 kcal/100ml and for Pediatric Nutrition Care: A medical service to understand nutritional status, problems related to the feeding process and clinical diagnosis of the patient.

    Also known as: food for special medically purposes

  • OtherPediatric Nutrition Care (PNC)

    Pediatric Nutrition Care: A medical service to understand nutritional status, problems related to the feeding process and clinical diagnosis of the patient.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Weight increment difference in grams

    to look for the relative efficacy of PNC and PNC + FSMP (SGM 100) on the weight increments

    Time frame: one month

Secondary outcomes

  1. weight increment percentile

    to look for the improvement of weight increments percentile of all subjects measured from time to time during the study period

    Time frame: during study period (3 months)

  2. length increments in cm

    to look length increments of all subjects measured from time to time during the study period

    Time frame: during study period (3 months)

  3. body mass index in kg/m^2

    to look length increments and body mass index alteration of all subjects measured from time to time during the study period

    Time frame: during study period (3 months)

  4. Composition (proportion) of each type of microorganisms in fecal

    changes of fecal microbiome composition (proportion of microorganisms' type) in control and intervention group

    Time frame: baseline, one month

  5. level of metabolites in faecal (faecal metabolome)

    level of metabolites in untargetted faecal metabolome analysis measured by LCMS in control and intervention group

    Time frame: baseline and one month in the study

  6. Number of children with existence of any medical health history to understand any related risk factors of weight faltering (obtained from anamnesis and physical examination)

    identify medical health history (obtained from anamnesis and physical examination) to understand any related risk factors of weight faltering during study period and from health history starting from prenatal, including their delivery mode, gestational age

    Time frame: at screening, baseline, one month, second month and third month

  7. Amount of Energy intake of children

    quantifying amount of energy intake among children in the study measured by dietary recall using interview

    Time frame: at baseline, one month, and second month of the study

  8. Number of children who accept the product

    acceptance of the product during study period measured by the proportion of respondents who answer all questions in acceptance questionnaire with agree or strongly agree

    Time frame: during study period (at one month, second month and third month)

  9. Number of children who tolerate the product

    tolerance of the product during study period measured by the proportion of children who were consuming the recommended amount of product during the study without any adverse event related to the consumption

    Time frame: during study period (at one month, second month and third month)

  10. compliance of the product consumption

    compliance of the product consumption during study period measured by the proportion of children who were consuming the recommended amount of product during the study

    Time frame: during study period (at one month, second month and third month)

  11. infection episodes

    number of infection incidence experienced by children during study period

    Time frame: during study period (at one month, second month and third month)

  12. sleep quality

    the mean duration of sleep of children during study period recorded by a diary during study period (by calculating the mean duration of the sleep)

    Time frame: during study period (at one month, second month and third month)

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Aug 2022 to primary completion in May 2023, 9 months.

Of 18 interventional studies with no phase under Failure to Thrive, half reached primary completion within 18 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 9 and three quarters within 30. This study's 9 months is below that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Apr 4, 2022
First posted
May 26, 2022
StartActual
Aug 17, 2022
Primary completionActual
May 23, 2023
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2024
Last update
Feb 26, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 26, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05393934
Collaborators
Hasanuddin University, RIKEN, LMU Klinikum
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 26, 2022
Start date
Aug 17, 2022
Primary completion
May 23, 2023
Completion
Dec 31, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 26, 2024

Study contacts

Conny Tanjung, MD, PhD
principal investigator · Hasanuddin University

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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