A New Measure of Egg Consumption and the Effect of Social Marketing Eggs

NCT04461106 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 202007077
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 815
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

About 1600 children 6 to 24 months old will be enrolled from 8 egg hubs. 4 hubs will be receive social marketing campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of eggs while the other 4 will not receive social marketing campaign. Children will provide a urine sample for analysis of metabolites to correlate with egg consumption.

Conditions

Nutritional Stunting

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Amount of egg consumed daily

  As determined by urinary metabolite concentrations. The specific metabolites will be identified in the course of the study.

  12 Months

Study Arms (2)

Social Marketing Campaign

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Select egg hubs will receive social marketing campaign which aims to raise awareness about the benefits of eggs - 'why eggs': increasing the value of eggs from a consumer perspective and encourage consumption of eggs by children (\<5yrs) and pregnant/lactating women.

Other: Social Marketing Campaign

No Social Marketing Campaign

NO INTERVENTION

Other egg hugs will not receive social marketing campaign.

Interventions

Social Marketing Campaign OTHER

aims to raise awareness about the benefits of eggs - 'why eggs': increasing the value of eggs from a consumer perspective and encourage consumption of eggs by children (\<5yrs) and pregnant/lactating women

Social Marketing Campaign

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Months - 24 Months
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Health children between 6 and 24 months of age

You may not qualify if:

• acute malnutrition
• congenital abnormalities
• chronic debilitation disease such as heart disease, cerebral palsy, or HIV infection

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Washington University School of Medicine: lead
• Project Peanut Butter, Malawi: collaborator
• Kamuzu University of Health Sciences: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Project Peanut Butter

Blantyre, Malawi

Location

Related Publications (4)

• Garcia-Perez I, Posma JM, Gibson R, Chambers ES, Hansen TH, Vestergaard H, Hansen T, Beckmann M, Pedersen O, Elliott P, Stamler J, Nicholson JK, Draper J, Mathers JC, Holmes E, Frost G. Objective assessment of dietary patterns by use of metabolic phenotyping: a randomised, controlled, crossover trial. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2017 Mar;5(3):184-195. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(16)30419-3. Epub 2017 Jan 13.

  PMID: 28089709 BACKGROUND

• S C Sri Harsha P, Abdul Wahab R, Cuparencu C, Dragsted LO, Brennan L. A Metabolomics Approach to the Identification of Urinary Biomarkers of Pea Intake. Nutrients. 2018 Dec 4;10(12):1911. doi: 10.3390/nu10121911.

  PMID: 30518059 BACKGROUND

• Koppmair S, Kassie M, Qaim M. Farm production, market access and dietary diversity in Malawi. Public Health Nutr. 2017 Feb;20(2):325-335. doi: 10.1017/S1368980016002135. Epub 2016 Sep 9.

  PMID: 27609557 BACKGROUND

• Eaton JC, Rothpletz-Puglia P, Dreker MR, Iannotti L, Lutter C, Kaganda J, Rayco-Solon P. Effectiveness of provision of animal-source foods for supporting optimal growth and development in children 6 to 59 months of age. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2019 Feb 19;2(2):CD012818. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012818.pub2.

  PMID: 30779870 BACKGROUND

Study Officials

• Mark Manary, MD

  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 22, 2020
• First Posted: July 8, 2020
• Study Start: February 26, 2021
• Primary Completion: September 10, 2021
• Study Completion: September 10, 2022
• Last Updated: February 27, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-02

Locations

MA (1)