Clinical trial · Interventional
Transition to Scale of Nutrition and Psychosocial Stimulation Program for Malnourished Children
Transition to Scale of an Integrated Program of Nutritional Care and Psychosocial Stimulation to Improve Malnourished Children's Development in Bangladesh
NCT02208531CI-TRIAL-00037436TTS BangladeshcompletedN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- 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)
We hypothesize that it is feasible to integrate a program of Nutritional Care and Pychosocial Stimulation into the Community Clinics in Bangladesh and thereby improve malnourished children's growth and development after a year of intervention.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate and Severe Undernutrition | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychosocial Stimulation and Nutritional Care | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Psychosocial Stimulation and Nutritional Care
- description
- Psychosocial Stimulation and Nutritional Care will be provided to malnourished children and their mothers every fortnight in the Community Clinics for one year.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Psychosocial Stimulation and Nutritional Care
Primary outcomes (3)
- measure
- Cognitive, Language and Motor Composite Scores
- timeFrame
- 12 months
- description
- The outcomes are measured on Bayley-III test.
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 6 Months
- Maximum age
- 24 Months
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Moderately and Severely malnourished children WAZ\<-2SD * Age: 6-24 months * Both male and female children * Living within 30 minutes walk from the Community Clinic * Parents giving consent to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: * Severe Acute Malnutrition with complications requiring close monitoring and/or hospitalization * Severe clinical pallor * Known chronic diseases like epilepsy, cerebral palsy, mental retardation * Twin/multiple birth Children with above exclusion criteria or those whose parents do not wish to sign the consent form will not be included in the evaluation sample but if they wish they will receive the stimulation.
References
Publications (3)
- DERIVEDHossain SJ, Palmer T, Uddin Tipu SMM, Mehrin SF, Shiraji S, Hasan MI, Alam Bhuiyan MS, Salveen NE, Tofail F, Baker-Henningham H, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Hamadani JD. Cost-effectiveness analysis of two integrated early childhood development programs into Bangladeshi primary health-care services. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2025 Mar 28;35:100564. doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100564. eCollection 2025 Apr. PMID 40230446
- DERIVEDMehrin SF, Hasan MI, Tofail F, Shiraji S, Ridout D, Grantham-McGregor S, Hamadani JD, Baker-Henningham H. Integrating a Group-Based, Early Childhood Parenting Intervention Into Primary Health Care Services in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Front Pediatr. 2022 Jun 10;10:886542. doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.886542. eCollection 2022. PMID 35783319
- DERIVEDHamadani JD, Mehrin SF, Tofail F, Hasan MI, Huda SN, Baker-Henningham H, Ridout D, Grantham-McGregor S. Integrating an early childhood development programme into Bangladeshi primary health-care services: an open-label, cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet Glob Health. 2019 Mar;7(3):e366-e375. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30535-7. PMID 30784637