Helen Keller International's Enhanced-Homestead Food Production Program in Burkina Faso

Anemia Clinical Trial

— EHFP  

Official title:

THE IMPACT OF THE ENHANCED HOMESTEAD FOOD PRODUCTION PROGRAM ON CHILD HEALTH

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01825226
• Other study ID #: 6117001
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 1, 2013
• Last updated: September 15, 2016
• Start date: February 2010
• Est. completion date: September 2017

Study information

• Verified date: September 2016
• Source: International Food Policy Research Institute
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review BoardBurkina Faso: Ethical committee for research in health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Helen Keller International (HKI) has been implementing homestead food production (HFP) programs in Asia for the past 20 years and has recently begun implementing HFP programs in Africa as well. In general, these programs target women and are designed to improve maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes through three primary pathways: 1. Increasing the availability of micronutrient-rich foods through increased household production of these foods; 2. Raising income through the sale of surplus production; and 3. Increasing knowledge and adoption of optimal nutrition practices, including the consumption of micronutrient-rich foods. Evaluations of HFP programs have consistently demonstrated significant increases in household production and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods. This increased consumption, along with improvements in health and nutrition related knowledge, and increased income, could all contribute to improvements in maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes. However, to date there has been limited understanding as to how these types of programs can be optimized to maximize impacts on these outcomes.

In order to better understand the potential of these types of programs to improve maternal and child health and nutrition outcomes and how this impact may be achieved IFPRI has been collaborating with HKI to evaluate one of their E-HFP programs in Burkina Faso. The evaluation considers impact of the program through the three pathways above, and assesses anthropometric and clinical measures of nutrition, as well as looking at how the programs might be improved.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 1763
• Est. completion date: September 2017
• Est. primary completion date: June 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 3 Months to 12 Months

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Mother of child between the ages of 3 and 12 months and her child

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anemia
• Growth

Intervention

Other:
• Enhanced-Homestead Food Production Program
Participation in an enhanced-homestead food production program including home gardening and nutrition and health behavior change communication

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	International Food Policy Research Institute	Washington	District of Columbia

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
International Food Policy Research Institute	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Growth	Change in height-for-age Z-scores, weight-for-age Z-scores and weight-for-height Z-scores will be measured as well as the change in the prevalence of stunting (HAZ <-2), underweight (WAZ <-2) and wasting (WHZ <-2) over the course of the two year program period.	Measurements will be made for children between the ages of 3 and 12 months of age at baseline and then 2 years later, at endline, when the children are between the ages of 23 and 40 months	No
Primary	Hemoglobin		Measurements will be made for children between the ages of 3 and 12 months of age at baseline and then 2 years later, at endline, when the children are between the ages of 23 and 40 months	No
Secondary	Food security		Baseline (2010), Endline (2012), follow-up (2013)	No
Secondary	Household assets		Baseline (2010), Endline (2012), follow-up (2013)	No
Secondary	Household consumption		Baseline (2010), Endline (2012), follow-up (2013)	No
Secondary	Household livestock holdings		Baseline (2010), Endline (2012), follow-up (2013)	Yes
Secondary	Dietary diversity		Baseline (2010), Endline (2012), follow-up (2013)	No
Secondary	Mother's BMI		Baseline (2010), Endline (2012), follow-up (2013)	No
Secondary	Maternal health and nutrition-related knowledge		Baseline (2010), Endline (2012), follow-up (2013)	No
Secondary	IYCF practices		Baseline (2010), Endline (2012), follow-up (2013)	No