277
Participants
Start Date
April 30, 1992
Primary Completion Date
July 31, 1996
Study Completion Date
July 31, 1996
Home stimulation
Weekly visit of one hour to the home over the course of one year to foster the mother-child relationship.
Surveillance
Weekly visits to the home over the course of one year to record iron intake, feeding, and health information.
Iron
Six-month-old infants treated orally for 1 y with 15 mg elemental Fe/d as ferrous sulfate. Twelve-month old infants treated orally for a minimum of 6 months with 30 mg elemental Fe/d.
Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos (INTA), Santiago
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH