Complementary Feeding Project in Ethiopia

NCT05062382 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 102
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,132
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a Swiss-based foundation, implemented a complementary feeding project to improve dietary quality among children 6-59 months of age living in Ethiopia by improving demand and access to eggs. Using a quasi-experimental design and two separate cross-sectional surveys at baseline and end-line, the evaluation seeks to determine the effects of the program on egg consumption, availability of eggs, caregivers' behaviours toward eggs, and caregivers' willingness to pay for eggs.

Conditions

Egg Consumption

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change in the number of eggs consumed from baseline to end-line

  Change in the average number of eggs consumed in the past 7 days by children 6 to 59 months of age from baseline to end-line in the two study arms

  From baseline to 22 months

• Change in the consumption of eggs from baseline to end-line

  Change in the proportion of children 6-59 months of age consuming eggs in the last 7 days and in the last 24 hours from baseline to end-line in the two study arms

  From baseline to 22 months

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Change in household egg production from baseline to end-line

  From baseline to 22 months

• Change in egg purchasing from baseline to end-line

  From baseline to 22 months

• Change in caregivers' (of children 6-59 months) behavioral determinants in the context of feeding eggs to children from baseline to end-line

  From baseline to 22 months

• Change in caregivers' willingness to pay for eggs from baseline to end-line

  From baseline to 22 months

Study Arms (2)

Complementary feeding program

EXPERIMENTAL

Promotion of eggs.

Behavioral: Complementary feeding intervention

Comparison

NO INTERVENTION

Comparison arm with no program

Interventions

Complementary feeding intervention BEHAVIORAL

The study promoted eggs. GAIN provided training to egg farmers to increase their egg production and marketing, helped increase mother's access to eggs by making them more available in local kiosks and getting retailers to display promotional messages around eggs, conducted sensitization workshops with retailers to increase egg purchases, and employed a demand creation campaign.

Complementary feeding program

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 6 Months - 59 Months
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Living in the project areas
• Caregiver 18 years old or above

You may not qualify if:

• households without children between the ages of 6-59 months

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of South Carolina: lead
• Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Deep Dive Research and Consulting PLC

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Location

Study Officials

• Edward A Frongillo, PhD

  University of South Carolina

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Data collectors were masked to the intervention.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: Cross-sectional pre- post-evaluation of intervention and comparison group

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 21, 2021
• First Posted: September 30, 2021
• Study Start: September 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2021
• Study Completion: July 1, 2021
• Last Updated: August 4, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: CSR

Locations

ET (1)