The Role of Agricultural Biodiversity in The Diet: a Vietnamese Study

Food Intake Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Role of Agricultural Biodiversity in The Diet: a Vietnamese Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02626988
• Other study ID #: BIOHTDIET2015JR
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 5, 2016
• Est. completion date: December 11, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: Bioversity International
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

What is the role of Agricultural biodiversity in improving diet diversity, quality and nutrition?

Description:

Agricultural biodiversity can have an important role in improving diet diversity, quality and nutrition and can be seen as the foundation of the food and nutrition value chain.

Increasing the availability and access to local agricultural and/or wild biodiversity genetic resources has the potential to increase production, making more food available for consumption as long as entitlements to access it exist. However, as the history of food security interventions has shown, increasing the production and supply of staple crops alone is not enough to improve food security or nutritional status. However, while agricultural diversification is an important component, it is not alone sufficient to improve diet diversity. Other system elements including women's education and knowledge, intra-household dynamics and women's status and cultural beliefs and practices that improves children's health and nutrition are important to ensure biodiversity has a successful role in improving dietary diversity and quality.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 180
• Est. completion date: December 11, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 11, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Months to 55 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Woman of reproductive age (between 15-49 years) who are the mother or primary caregiver of a child between 12 and 23 months of age.

• Both the woman and the child should be permanent residents in the village selected and do not temporarily migrate outside the village cluster during the year.

• Reside in a Thai Village

Exclusion Criteria:

• Reside in a village that is the Urban center of commune/province

• Currently engaged in other agriculture or nutrition programme or Intervention apart from what is offered by government extension workers

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Biodiversity
• Food Intake

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Promotion of a biodiverse diet
Nutrition education combined with Agriculture Capacity building focused on a key set of nutritious crops. Component (C) 1 - Participatory Identification of Intervention Approach (PIIA); C2 - Local stakeholder consultation; C3 - Sensitisation of community; C4 - Formation of Diversity club. Club will receive capacity building from a Village health worker. The following topics will be covered species selected for promotion: 1. Where to locally source inputs and expected price, 2. How/when to prepare plots using organic inputs, 3. Planting and best-practice management practices, 4. Seed saving and storage and 4. Active Cooking demonstrations and Nutrition Education and counselling including Diversified cooking practices

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Vietnam	Jessica E Raneri	Mai Son	Son La Province

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bioversity International	Center for Agriculture and Ecological Studies, HealthBridge, University Ghent

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Vietnam, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Mean intakes (g) of Dark Green leafy vegetables, Vitamin A Rich Fruit and Vegetable and Legumes, nuts and seeds	Mean intakes (g) of Dark Green leafy vegetables, Vitamin A Rich Fruit and Vegetable and Legumes, nuts and seeds by mothers and young children. Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Primary	Proportion of women and children consuming Dark Green leafy vegetables, Vitamin A Rich Fruit and Vegetable and Legumes, nuts and seeds by mothers and young children	Proportion of women and children consuming Dark Green leafy vegetables, Vitamin A Rich Fruit and Vegetable and Legumes, nuts and seeds by mothers and young children. Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Primary	Proportion of women and children reaching EAR of iron and vitamin A	Proportion of women and children reaching EAR of iron and vitamin A. Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Primary	Mean species richness consumed daily	Mean species richness consumed daily. Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Secondary	Proportion of women and children reaching EAR of 16 key nutrients	Proportion of women and children reaching EAR of 16 key nutrients. Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Secondary	Nutritional Knowledge of Women, score	Nutrition Knowledge Score. Collected through a Questionnaire.	12 months
Secondary	Individual Dietary Diversity Score - Women - Score constructed of number of food groups consumed out of 10	Individual Dietary Diversity Score of women. Score constructed of number of food groups consumed out of 10. Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Secondary	Individual Dietary Diversity Score - Children. Score constructed of count of number of food groups consumed out of 7	Individual Dietary Diversity Score children. Score constructed of count of number of food groups consumed out of 7.Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Secondary	Minimum Dietary Diversity - Women - Proportion of women that consumed 5 or more food groups (out of 10).	Proportion of women that consumed 5 or more food groups (out of 10). Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Secondary	Minimum Dietary Diversity - Children - Proportion of children that consumed 4 or more food groups (out of 7).	Proportion of children that consumed 4 or more food groups (out of 7). Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Secondary	Child nutritional status - Wasting/Overweight - Mean change from baseline in weight-for-height Z-scores. The following measurements will be directly collected Height/Length (cm) and Weight (Kg)	Wasting/Overweight - Mean change from baseline in weight-for-height Z-scores. The following measurements will be directly collected Height/Length (cm) and Weight (Kg) and used to calculate the final indicator	12 months
Secondary	Child nutritional status - Stunting - Mean change from baseline in height-for-age Z-scores The following direct measurements will be collected Age (months), Height/Length (cm)	Stunting - Mean change from baseline in height-for-age Z-scores The following direct measurements will be collected Age (months), Height/Length (cm) and used to calculate the final indicator.	12 months
Secondary	Child nutritional status - Underweight - Mean change from baseline in weight-for-age Z-scores The following direct measurements will be collected Age (months) and Weight (Kg)	Underweight - Mean change from baseline in weight-for-age Z-scores The following direct measurements will be collected Age (months) and Weight (Kg) and used to calculate the final indicator	12 months
Secondary	Mean daily intakes (g) of processed foods and drinks	Mean daily intakes (g) of processed foods and drinks. Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months
Secondary	Mean proportion of daily energy, fat, salt and sugar intakes from processed foods	Mean proportion of daily energy, fat, salt and sugar intakes from processed foods. Collected through administration of 24hour dietary recall	12 months