A Novel Low-Cost Tool for a More Efficient & Reliable

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Weight-for-height/length z-score is one of the indicators used to diagnose acute malnutrition. In the existing method, the assessment involves three steps and takes significant time with a wider room for errors. A new tool is developed to address these drawbacks. A preliminary testing done show encouraging results, but a more robust study is needed. This research will b done with the objective of comparing diagnostic efficiency and reliability of the 'new' method against the 'existing' one using a diagnostic randomized clinical trial method.

Clinical Trial Description

Acute malnutrition is a major underlying and direct cause of child death. Weight-for-height/length z score (WHZ) is one of the indicators used to assess nutritional status of children. In the existing method, the assessment involves three steps; measuring height, measuring weight and deciding WHZ using a reference graphs or tables. The assessment takes significant time and has wider room for errors. Due to these drawbacks, it is not used at community level where regular active finding takes place.

A new tool is developed to address these drawbacks. It reduces the steps to two aiming at reducing errors and saving time and energy. This study will compare efficiency and reliability of WHZ assessments done with the new tool against the existing method using a diagnostic randomized clinical trial.

Trained health workers will do WHZ assessments in under five children mobilized for nutrition screening program. The 'average time' needed and proportions of 'classification errors' will be compared between the new and the existing methods. Assessments done by two anthropometry experts will be used as gold standard.

The study will determine the gains of the new tool and can potentially change the global practice and help early detection of huge number of wasted children that are being missed. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT03780348
Study type	Interventional
Source	JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
Contact	Yared A Fantaye, MD, MPH
Phone	+251 911944651
Email	yared_abebe@et.jsi.org
Status	Not yet recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	December 2018
Completion date	February 28, 2019

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A Novel Low-Cost Tool for a More Efficient and Reliable Weight-for-Height/Length Assessment — Yared's-tool

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