RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT05311436

Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City

Sponsor

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

Enrollment

3,278 participants

Start Date

Apr 1, 2022

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Diet, Food, and Nutrition Health Behavior Undernutrition Gestational Weight Gain

Summary

The objective of the research project is to establish an evidence-based sustainable nutrition service delivery platform for optimizing pregnancy weight gain, increasing dietary diversity of adolescent girls, and ensuring proper physical growth of under 2 children. Hypothesis 1. Pregnant Women: Intensive nutrition and WASH counseling, iron-folate, calcium supplementation during pregnancy, can improve gestational weight gain and improve hemoglobin status in pregnant women in a slum of Dhaka city 2. Adolescent girl: Iron and zinc supplementation and nutrition counseling on dietary diversity could improve nutritional status and dietary diversity score in adolescent girls of slums in Dhaka 3. Children \<2 years: Counselling on IYCF, growth monitoring, and promotion, ensuring six-monthly vitamin A supplementation, counseling on WASH, treatment of acute malnutrition, and daily 1 egg supplementation for 3 months for severely stunted children can improve the nutritional status of children 4. Counselling to improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practice: WASH intervention can improve EED biomarkers

Eligibility

Min Age: 1 DayMax Age: 39 Years

Plain Language Summary

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This clinical trial is studying a behavioral approach called Experimental - Intensive nutrition counselling for pregnant, adolescent and under2 children for people with diet, food, and nutrition, gestational weight gain, and other related conditions. The study is currently recruiting participants at 1 location.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALExperimental - Intensive nutrition counselling for pregnant, adolescent and under2 children

Pregnant women: Intensive dietary counseling using diet chart for locally available food, and to attend antenatal care services from local ANC providers, daily Iron, folic acid, and calcium supplementation. Adolescent girls: Group sessions in the nutrition centers with the adolescent girls will be conducted twice monthly for 6 months. Iron and folic acid (200 mg ferrous fumarate and 400 μg folic acid); once weekly for 3 months; zinc 10 mg daily for 1 month. Children \<2 years: Behavioral counseling sessions through monthly home visits on Infant and Young Child feeding, Growth monitoring and promotion, and water sanitation and hygiene, and food safety. Intensive WASH counselling: Intensive WASH counseling will be provided to separate group of child participants twice a month for 6 months. Severely stunted children: 1 egg supplementation for 3 months and 1 sachet of multiple micronutrient powder (1 RDA of vitamin A and C, iron-folic acid, and zinc) daily for 2 months.