Trial of Home Visitation Among Infants With Failure To Thrive

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Conditions studied: Failure to Thrive

In brief

1. Children in the home intervention group will have better growth (increase in weight and height) than children in the control group. 2. Children in the home intervention group will have better behavior than children in the control group. 3. Children in the home intervention group will have better academic performance than children in the control group.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00483691

Run by

University of Maryland, Baltimore

People needed

130

Starts

1989-01-01

Expected to finish

1995-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-04-14

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 2. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age < 25 months, at least 35 weeks gestational age, birth weight appropriate for gestational age, current weight-for-age < 5th percentile or weight-for-length < 10th percentile or weight for age crossing two major centiles and falling below the 25th percentile.

You may not qualify if…

• No congenital problems or developmental disabilities.

Where it is running

• University of Maryland Growth and Nutrition Clinic — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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