Complementary Food Supplements for Reducing Childhood Undernutrition

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the impact on child growth of three specially formulated complementary food supplements vs. Plumpy'Doz, a previously tested, commercially available complementary food, and vs. a control group that receives no food. All groups will receive nutrition education related to infant and young child feeding. This will be a cluster-randomised trial in children 6-18 months old in rural Rangpur and Gaibandha in Bangladesh.

Clinical Trial Description

Childhood stunting and growth faltering is highly prevalent in South Asia. Among other strategies, adequate complementary feeding practices and provision of complementary foods that are appropriate and fill the nutrient gap by providing macro and micronutrients essential for growth are important means to reduce the global burden of undernutrition and related morbidity and mortality.

We propose to evaluate the impact of three complementary food supplement products that are fortified with micronutrients in a rural, remote setting in Bangladesh, where high rates of childhood undernutrition persist on child growth, health, and development. The three foods being tested are an enhanced wheat-soy blend (WSB++) developed by WFP, and locally developed chickpea-based and a rice-based complementary food supplements.

We will assess the impact of feeding these daily against the non-fed controls, hypothesizing that the children fed these foods show increased length for age Z scores (LAZ) and weight for length age Z scores (WLZ) of >0.21 and decreased prevalence of stunting and wasting by >10%. We expect that the impact of the three foods will be equivalent/ non-inferior to that of Plumpy'Doz. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT01562379
Study type	Interventional
Source	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	Phase 2/Phase 3
Start date	September 2012
Completion date	November 2014

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