Assessing the Feasibility of Integrating Maternal Nutrition Interventions Into an Existing MNCH Platform in Bangladesh

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Conditions studied: Poor Fetal Growth, Small-for-gestational Age, Premature Birth

In brief

Inadequate maternal nutrition is likely to undermine the potential impact of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) improvements made in the Alive \& Thrive (A\&T) first phase because it is linked to poor fetal growth leading to small-for-gestational age and pre-term newborns. These babies do not respond to growth promoting feeding practices as well as normal newborns do. In Phase 2, Alive \& Thrive decided to focus on integrating a package of maternal nutrition interventions in a large-scale maternal, newborn and child health program (MNCH). This proposed evaluation aims to assess the feasibility of integrating maternal nutrition interventions into an existing MNCH platform in Bangladesh, using a cluster-randomized evaluation design.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02745249

Run by

International Food Policy Research Institute

People needed

3500

Starts

2015-07-01

Expected to finish

2016-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-09-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 45. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Recently delivered women with children <6 months of age
• Pregnant women in second and third trimester and her husbands
• Frontline health workers in the areas

You may not qualify if…

• Age <18
• Mental disorders that cannot understand and answer the questions

Where it is running

• International Food Policy Research Institute — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

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