NCT00816946

District-based Mainstreaming Nutrition Project in Rural Pakistan

Scaling up Evidence-based Nutrition Interventions to Address Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Pakistan: a District-based Demonstration Project in Rural Sindh

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aga Khan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to provide evidence regarding the feasibility of integrating an enhanced maternal and child care health education package into the existing curricula of the National Program for Family Planning and Primary Health Care (LHW Program) and evaluating the feasibility of scaling-up as well as the impact on birth outcomes, nutritional status, morbidity patterns and overall survival patterns at the community level.

Detailed description

This project aims to do the following: * To evaluate the operational feasibility of integrating an enhanced health education and nutrition package into the existing curriculum of the National Program for FP/PHC (LHW Program) * Impact of the implementation of the full package of evidence-based nutrition interventions on the nutrition status, morbidity patterns and overall survival patterns in the district

Conditions

• Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced education	Enhanced Nutritional education/counseling to mothers on the following topics: During Pregnancy: diet during pregnancy; antenatal care; iron tablets; colostrum Postpartum period: difficulties during lactation; diet during lactation; EBF; childhood vaccination; newborn care Complementary Feeding General Health: vitamin A; diarrhea management; iodine; hygiene for health; protection from malaria; ARI \& protection against ARI

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-02-01
• Completion: 2009-02-01
• First posted: 2009-01-05
• Last updated: 2018-01-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan