Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

3,278

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 1, 2022

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2024

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2024

Conditions
Gestational Weight GainDiet, Food, and NutritionUndernutritionHealth Behavior
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

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."

Trial Locations (1)

1212

RECRUITING

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Global Affairs Canada

OTHER

lead

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

OTHER