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Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City
Sponsor: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Summary
The objective of the research project is to establish an evidence-based sustainable nutrition service delivery platform for optimizing pregnancy weight gain, increasing dietary diversity of adolescent girls, and ensuring proper physical growth of under 2 children. Hypothesis 1. Pregnant Women: Intensive nutrition and WASH counseling, iron-folate, calcium supplementation during pregnancy, can improve gestational weight gain and improve hemoglobin status in pregnant women in a slum of Dhaka city 2. Adolescent girl: Iron and zinc supplementation and nutrition counseling on dietary diversity could improve nutritional status and dietary diversity score in adolescent girls of slums in Dhaka 3. Children \<2 years: Counselling on IYCF, growth monitoring, and promotion, ensuring six-monthly vitamin A supplementation, counseling on WASH, treatment of acute malnutrition, and daily 1 egg supplementation for 3 months for severely stunted children can improve the nutritional status of children 4. Counselling to improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practice: WASH intervention can improve EED biomarkers
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
1 Day - 39 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
3278
Start Date
2022-04-01
Completion Date
2024-12-31
Last Updated
2024-10-30
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Experimental - Intensive nutrition counselling for pregnant, adolescent and under2 children
Pregnant women: Intensive dietary counseling using diet chart for locally available food, and to attend antenatal care services from local ANC providers, daily Iron, folic acid, and calcium supplementation. Adolescent girls: Group sessions in the nutrition centers with the adolescent girls will be conducted twice monthly for 6 months. Iron and folic acid (200 mg ferrous fumarate and 400 μg folic acid); once weekly for 3 months; zinc 10 mg daily for 1 month. Children \<2 years: Behavioral counseling sessions through monthly home visits on Infant and Young Child feeding, Growth monitoring and promotion, and water sanitation and hygiene, and food safety. Intensive WASH counselling: Intensive WASH counseling will be provided to separate group of child participants twice a month for 6 months. Severely stunted children: 1 egg supplementation for 3 months and 1 sachet of multiple micronutrient powder (1 RDA of vitamin A and C, iron-folic acid, and zinc) daily for 2 months.
Locations (1)
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh