Operational research for Ethiopia Integrated Nutrition Project (EINP)

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• Last refreshed on: 6 July 2015
• Main ID: ISRCTN89206590
• Date of registration: 03/11/2014
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: World Vision Korea (Korea)
• Public title: Operational research for Ethiopia Integrated Nutrition Project (EINP)
• Scientific title: Effectiveness evaluation of community-based nutrition program in improving child growth and feeding practices in rural Eastern Ethiopia: a clustered randomized trial
• Date of first enrolment: 01/09/2012
• Target sample size: 2064
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN89206590
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Clustered randomized trial (Quality of life)

Countries of recruitment

Ethiopia

Contacts

• Name: Yunhee Kang

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Infants 6 to 24 months of age
Exclusion criteria: N/A

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Child undernutrition
Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Intervention(s)

Community-based Participatory Nutrition Education (Behavior Change Communication form), Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition, and Essential Nutrition Action activity (nutrition counselling)

In the intervention area, the CPNE program, the ENA activity and the CMAM program will be conducted concurrently, and in the control area, the ENA activity and the CMAM program will be implemented only. Target children differ by type of intervention. Undernourished children and their caregivers will receive the CPNE program by project staff, the ENA activity will be given to all mothers with children under two years old as much as trained volunteers can visit households, and moderately or severely undernourished children will be admitted to the CMAM program. Besides we attempted to measure differences in child growth such as z-scores at whole the community level considering all children at 6 to 24 months of age not specifically at individual children level who directly receive interventions. Since the above programs, especially the CPNE program and the ENA activity, are publicly conducted in communities, we wanted to measure the direct and indirect effects of the interventions together.

Primary Outcome(s)

1. Length-for-age
2. Weight-for-age
3. Weight-for-length z scores
4. Prevalence of stunting, wasting and being underweight

Children 6 to 12 months of age are measured by trained anthropometrists from the time of enrollment, at every 3 months, for five times, for their height with locally manufactured measuring boards nearest to 0.1 cm and weight with electronic weighing scales to nearest 0.01 kg. For example, a child whose age is 9 months old at enrollment will be measured at 9, 12, 15, 18, and 21 months old.

Secondary Outcome(s)

Complementary feeding practices such as dietary diversity and feeding frequency, and hand washing practices

Mothers will be asked at the same timepoints that the primary outcomes are measured about her feeding and hygienic practices, e.g. how and what she fed child in the last 24 hours, and when she washed her hands by enumerators, through household visits.

Secondary ID(s)

N/A

Source(s) of Monetary Support

World Vision Korea (E197814) (Korea), Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) (Korea)