Clinical trial · Interventional
Feasible Means to Address Moderately Malnourished Children Within BINP Communities
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP) of the Government of Bangladesh has started showing reduction in malnutrition of women and children under two years of age in last 3 years of it's activities. That was a demonstration study to test the efficacy of the approach on a relatively small number of children with intensive intervention. A study will be therefore conducted in 4 division of BINP thanas of Bangladesh over an 18-month period. Moderately malnourished children will be in management intervention and mildly malnourished and well-nourished infants will be in preventive intervention group. For management intervention, a total of 750 moderately malnourished will be randomized to receive either intensive nutrition education or less intensive education. For preventive purpose, 380 mildly malnourished children of 6 months to 2 years of age and 240 well nourished infants of 6 to 9 months of age will receive either less intensive education or no education. Infants between 6 to 9 month ages will be brought under less INE to ensure their complementary feeding practice. Care givers of one group of mildly malnourished children and one group of 6-9 month old infants will not receive any education to serve as controls. Focus group discussion will be held before the educational intervention to identify the perception of the mother, her husband and female decision maker of her family on child nutrition, caring practice and common practice of health care. BCC materials will be developed after FGD and that will be used during nutrition education. Mothers of the first intervention group will receive intensive nutrition education for child feeding twice weekly for first three months, which will be then reinforced once in a week for the last three months of intervention. The less intensive intervention group will receive nutrition education twice a week for the first month then once a week for two months and then twice monthly for the last three months of intervention. INE will be given for a total of 6 months. An observation will be done to identify for sustainability effect for an additional period of 6 months. Their weight and length gain will be recorded. It is expected that the results of the study will help define the effectiveness of our nutrition education package to prevent and reduce moderate malnutrition existing in large proportion of children in setting with different geographical, and cultural and feeding practices.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mild and Moderate Malnourished Children | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospective Longitudinal Interventional Stury | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (0)
[]Primary outcomes (11)
- measure
- Mothers understanding and ability to identify moderate malnutrition in children.
- measure
- Mothers understanding on consequence of moderate malnutrition.
- measure
- Change in knowledge of mothers in feeding practices.
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- Frequency of home feeding (Breast-feeding and supplementary feeding).
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- Frequency of seeking medical care during illness, referral, incidence, duration of illness.
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- Adequacy of child feeding, frequency & type of feeding.
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- Weight gain, weight for age and weight for height at the end of intervention.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 6 Months
- Maximum age
- 24 Months
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Mildly malnourished children without growth faltering aged 6 to 24 months * Moderately malnourished children without growth faltering aged 6 to 24 months * Well-nourished children aged 6 to 9 months Exclusion Criteria: * \>2 years children * Severely malnourished children
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