Evaluation Nutrition Education Intervention on Pulse and Cereal Mix for Complementary Food in Southern Ethiopia

NCT02638571 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: PULSE-HEW
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 772
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Dietary Habits; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices; Wasting

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Maternal knowledge, attitudes and practices towards pulse-cereal mix complementary food

  Using validated questions on knowledge, attitude and practices

  9 months

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Weight for height Z-score of children

  9 months

• Zinc status of children

  9 months

• Iron status

  9 months

Study Arms (2)

Usual education

SHAM COMPARATOR

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

Enhanced Education

EXPERIMENTAL

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

Interventions

enhanced education on pulse use in complementary foods OTHER

Enhanced Nutrition education with sessions and counseling by health extension workers

Enhanced Education; Usual education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Months - 15 Months
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Age 6-15 months
• Apparently healthy
• Being breastfed at time of recruitment
• The mothers are permanent residents of the kebele

You may not qualify if:

• Infant undergoing treatment with supplemental foods for malnutrition

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Saskatchewan: lead
• Hawassa University: collaborator

Related Publications (9)

• Amare B, Moges B, Fantahun B, Tafess K, Woldeyohannes D, Yismaw G, Ayane T, Yabutani T, Mulu A, Ota F, Kassu A. Micronutrient levels and nutritional status of school children living in Northwest Ethiopia. Nutr J. 2012 Dec 13;11:108. doi: 10.1186/1475-2891-11-108.

  PMID: 23237638 BACKGROUND

• Bhutta ZA, Das JK, Rizvi A, Gaffey MF, Walker N, Horton S, Webb P, Lartey A, Black RE; Lancet Nutrition Interventions Review Group, the Maternal and Child Nutrition Study Group. Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost? Lancet. 2013 Aug 3;382(9890):452-477. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60996-4. Epub 2013 Jun 6.

  PMID: 23746776 BACKGROUND

• Hirvone K, & Hoddinot J. Agricultural production and children's diets: Evidence from rural Ethiopia. EDRI & IFPRI, working paper 69.

  BACKGROUND

• Kebebu A, Whiting S, & Henry C. Formulation of a complementary food fortified with broad beans (vicia faba) in Southern Ethiopia. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development. 2013; 13(3): 7789-7803.

  BACKGROUND

• Kuma T. Analysis of changes in Food Consumption Pattern in Urban Ethiopia. EDRI. 2010.

  BACKGROUND

• Negash C, Belachew T, Henry CJ, Kebebu A, Abegaz K, Whiting SJ. Nutrition education and introduction of broad bean-based complementary food improves knowledge and dietary practices of caregivers and nutritional status of their young children in Hula, Ethiopia. Food Nutr Bull. 2014 Dec;35(4):480-6. doi: 10.1177/156482651403500409.

  PMID: 25639132 BACKGROUND

• Tefera T. Determinants of smallholder pulse producers market orientation in Southern Ethiopia. Asian Journal of Business Management. 2014; 6(2); 97-103.

  BACKGROUND

• Berhanu G, Henry CJ, Whiting SJ, Green TJ. 2017 Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers on pulse incorporated complementary food and its correlations with diet diversity and nutritional status of their children aged 6-15 months in two rural districts of Sidama, South Ethiopia. International Journal of Nutritional Sciences (Special Issue on Malnutrition). 2(1): id1017 (2017).

  RESULT

• Teshome GB, Whiting SJ, Green TJ, Mulualem D, Henry CJ. Scaled-up nutrition education on pulse-cereal complementary food practice in Ethiopia: a cluster-randomized trial. BMC Public Health. 2020 Sep 22;20(1):1437. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09262-8.

  PMID: 32962685 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Feeding Behavior; Behavior; Cachexia

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior, Animal; Weight Loss; Body Weight Changes; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Thinness

Study Officials

• Carol J Henry, PhD

  University of Saskatchewan

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Ph.D.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 18, 2015
• First Posted: December 23, 2015
• Study Start: January 19, 2016
• Primary Completion: November 22, 2016
• Study Completion: November 22, 2016
• Last Updated: May 8, 2024

Record last verified: 2018-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share