NCT01147198

Ready to Use Supplementary Food in Moderate Childhood Malnutrition

Effectiveness of a Ready-to-Use-Supplementary-Food for the Treatment of Moderate Childhood Malnutrition

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 570 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medecins Sans Frontieres, Netherlands · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Since 2001, Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) are widely used to treat severe malnutrition. Their efficacy and effectiveness were proven in community therapeutic care programs. Recently, the question rose if RUTF would be more effective than enriched flours to treat moderate malnutrition. The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of Ready to Use Food Supplementary-plumpy® and Premix Corn Soy Blend with oil in term of cure rate, weight gain, duration of treatment, morbidity and mortality in the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition. Compare the longer term effect on nutritional status and morbidity (relapse?).

Conditions

• Moderate Acute Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Ready to Use Supplementary Food	Children received two Supplementary-plumpy® packages per day (184g) providing 1000 Kcal, 26g (10.4%) protein, 68g (61.2%) fat, and 100% of micronutrient requirements based on the Daily Recommended Nutrient Intake.
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Premix CSB-oil treatment	Children received 2 kg of premix per week (226g CSB, 37g oil, and 23g sugar / day) providing 1277 Kcal, 40.7g protein (12.7%), 50.6g (35.7%) fat, and 100% of micronutrient according to the DRNI guidelines

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-04-01
• Primary completion: 2007-08-01
• Completion: 2008-04-01
• First posted: 2010-06-22
• Last updated: 2012-01-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sierra Leone