3,278
Participants
Start Date
April 1, 2022
Primary Completion Date
December 31, 2024
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2024
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."
RECRUITING
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka
Global Affairs Canada
OTHER
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
OTHER