NCT00953134

Periconceptional Iron Supplementation in Rural Bangladesh

Periconceptional Iron Supplementation on Iron and Folate Indicators Among Pregnant and Non-pregnant Women in Rural Bangladesh.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 273 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that periconceptional iron supplementation to married, nulliparous women in rural Bangladesh will significantly reduce anemia and improve hemoglobin concentrations before and during pregnancy.

Detailed description

In 2007, the National Strategy for Anemia Prevention and Control in Bangladesh included adolescents and newly married women as target groups for future iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation programs. This double-blinded RCT examined the effect of daily periconceptional IFA vs. folic acid (FA) on anemia and iron indictors before and during pregnancy among married, nulliparous women in rural Bangladesh. Biochemical indices were collected at baseline and either at 15 weeks gestation or after 9 months among non-pregnant women (NPW).

Conditions

• Anemia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Ferrous fumarate (iron)	60 mg of ferrous fumarate
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	folic acid	400 mcg folic acid

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-02-01
• Primary completion: 2008-02-01
• Completion: 2008-03-01
• First posted: 2009-08-06
• Last updated: 2021-04-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Bangladesh