Food Security and Nutrition in Rural Cambodia

Household Food Security Clinical Trial

Official title:

Integration of Small-scale Aquaculture With Homestead Food Production for Improved Household Food Security and Nutrition in Rural Cambodia

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01593423
• Other study ID #: H12-00451
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 2012
• Est. completion date: August 2014

Study information

• Verified date: November 2016
• Source: University of British Columbia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The project is a three arm randomized control trial in rural Cambodia designed to evaluate the impact of homestead food production (home gardens) with and without fish ponds versus control on household food security, dietary intake of women and youngest child, biochemical nutritional status of women, and household livelihoods over a 22 month period. Baseline and end line surveys will be conducted that involve questionnaires and a blood sample.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 900
• Est. completion date: August 2014
• Est. primary completion date: August 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be represented by a woman.

• Must fall within the "poor" category in terms of community wealth rankings.

• Must have access to land (including homestead) for agriculture cultivation.

• Must have sufficient access to labor to undertake the homestead production activities.

• Must have a keen interest in participating in this action.

• Must have a least one child less than five years of age (in 80% of the target households).

• Have suitable land for pond and preferably own a small pond

In addition village model farm owners will:

• Have at least 1,200 square meters of land that can be used to establish the model farm;

• Have some disposable income to invest in the model farm for fencing and land preparation;

• Be productive, open to new ideas and willing to provide assistance to other households in the village;

• Be able and willing to maintain the VMF throughout the year;

• Commit to providing inputs and marketing support to group members at least during the project.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None, only that they don't meet the inclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Household Food Security

Intervention

Behavioral:
• plant-based Homestead Food Production
The village model farm will be provided with the necessary inputs to establish their farm including saplings seeds etc.
• Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture
In the case of the aquaculture arm a pond will be dug if there is not an existing pond and fingerlings and brood stocks will be provided. Hatcheries will be established if there is not one within a reasonable distance of the farms.
• a comparison group
No intervention.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Cambodia	Rural Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Prey Veng

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of British Columbia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Cambodia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from Baseline in nutritionally related biochemical measures at 22 months	Haemoglobin (g/l) Haematocrit (%) Serum Ferritin (ng/ml) White Cell Count (x109/l) Red Cell Count (x1012/l) Mean Corpuscular Volume (fl) Mean Cell Haemoglobin (pg) Red Cell Width % Platelet Count (x109/l) Neutrophils % Eosinophils % Lymphocytes % Monocytes % Neutrophils # (x109/l) Eosinophils # (x109/l) Lymphocytes # (x109/l) Monocytes # (x109/l) C-Reactive Protein (mg/l)	At baseline and 22 months
Secondary	24-hour dietary recall		At baseline and 22 months
Secondary	Mid-upper arm circumference		At baseline and 22 months
Secondary	Household Food Security Scale		At baseline and 22 months