The Tany Vao Project.

NCT06195098 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 04122023
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 141
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The TANY VAO project pilot study aimed to create a circular and sustainable model with a multidimensional and multidisciplinary approach to improve the health conditions of Madagascar's population living in rural areas. This is through an integrated approach in the areas of "wash and sanitation," agriculture, nutrition and "clean cooking." This project consisted of two phases: first an observational phase (Work Package 1, WP1) and secondarily an interventional phase (Work Package 2, WP2). Here is described the nutritional protocol as part of the multidisciplinary study. The nutritional activities were conducted by the Laboratory of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition (LDNC) of the University of Pavia.

Conditions

Malnutrition

Keywords

Malnutrition; Double burden of malnutrition; Sub Saharan Africa; Madagascar; Eating habits; Nutritional knowledge; Nutritional status; Rural areas

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Improvement of health condition of the study population

  Nutritional assessment, nutrition knowledge and food intake evaluation, and implementation of nutritional intervention.

  6 months (WP1), 18 months (WP2)

Study Arms (1)

Nosy Mitsio Population

OTHER

Women of childbearing age from 14 to 49 years, pregnant or not and lactating or not, and their children and adolescent form 2 to 18 years old.

Other: Nutritional educational intervention

Interventions

Nutritional educational intervention OTHER

The interventional activities were targeted to the local population, according to their educational level and culture and it was composed by a theoretical part and a more practical part. The objective was to improve nutritional knowledge and their awareness about the role of food in connection to the human health. According to the theoretical part: to make the activities more appealing, three informative graphic posters were drafted. According to the practical part: a cooking class activities were conducted, involving women of the Ampanithosa and Bevoko villages. The researchers teaching them how to use a bamboo steamer and how to process vegetables, grew up in the organic gardens built by the Kukula team. The activities were carried out in each village thanks to a local enumerators involvement.

Nosy Mitsio Population

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 2 Years - 49 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• For women: be female, aged between 14 and 49 years and living in the villages of Ampanitosoha and Bevoko (Nosy Mitsio, Madagascar);
• For children/adolescents: male and female subjects, aged between 2 and 18 years; living in the villages of Ampanitosoha and Bevoko (Nosy Mitsio, Madagascar).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pavia: lead
• Help for optimism NGO: collaborator
• Kukula ONLUS: collaborator
• Elpis Nave Ospedale ONLUS: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Pavia

Pavia, 27100, Italy

Location

Related Links

• Help for Optimism project description
• Kukula project description

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Malnutrition; Feeding Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Behavior, Animal; Behavior

Study Officials

• Hellas Cena, MD

  University of Pavia

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: University of Pavia

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 22, 2023
• First Posted: January 8, 2024
• Study Start: November 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: November 30, 2023
• Study Completion: November 30, 2023
• Last Updated: January 8, 2024

Record last verified: 2023-12

Locations

IT (1)