Mangrove-sword Bean-food Bar on the Weight and Weight for Age Z Score of Under-five Children — MFB  

Nutrition Poor Clinical Trial

Official title: Effect of Mangrove-sword Bean-food Bar on the Weight and Weight-for-Age Z Score of Under-five Children Affected by Landslide Disaster. The Pre-post Intervention Study Towards 34 Under-five Children During 15 Days

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the effect of the food bar made from api-api mangrove (Avicennia marina) and sword bean (Canavalia ensiformis) blends on the weight and Weight-for-Age Z score affected by a landslide disaster.

The main questions aimed to answer are:

• Food bar supplementation can effect the weight and WAZ score of under-five children affected by landslides disaster?

• Balanced nutrition education can increase the mothers' knowledge on the balanced nutrition of under-five children?

Participants divided in to two group i.e.:

• Treatment/intervention group consumed 50 g mangrove sword bean food bar each day during 15 days.

• Control group consumed 50 g sword bean food bar each day during 15 days.

• Each group received balanced nutrition for mothers once at the first week of study.

Clinical Trial Description

Eligibility Criteria for Under-five children:

• Aged between 12 and 59 months

• Male and female

• Living in Cihanjuang Village of Sumedang District which affected by the landslide disaster

• Had malnutrition, normal, or over-nutrition status, and not suffering from infectious diseases. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Malnutrition
• Nutrition Poor

• NCT number: NCT05878886
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Indonesia University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 1, 2022
• Completion date: October 30, 2022