NCT01553877

Development and Acceptability Testing of Ready-to-use-complementary Food Supplement (RUCFS) for Children in Bangladesh

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 18 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The prevention of malnutrition among children under 5 years of age requires consumption of nutritious food, including exclusive breast feeding for the first six months of life, followed by breastfeeding in combination with complementary foods thereafter until at least 24 months of age; a hygienic environment; access to preventive as well as curative health services, and good prenatal care. The proposed research is on the possible options for providing a nutritious diet, realizing the constraints of poverty and food insecurity faced by care givers whose children are at risk of developing or confirmed to be suffering from moderate malnutrition. Even when people are not typically food insecure but consume a relatively monotonous diet with few good-quality foods, they also have to have options for dietary improvement, and especially the possibility of ready-to-use complementary food supplements (RUCFS) for young children. This proposed research on development of RUCFS will pave the way for programmatic considerations for expansion of the use of new complementary food supplements for preventing malnutrition among young children in Bangladesh.

Conditions

• Moderately Malnourished Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Pushti packet	A food composed of roasted rice, roasted lentil, molasses and soybean oil
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Rice based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements	A rice based diet.
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Chick-pea based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements	A chick-pea based diet.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-02-01
• Completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2012-03-14
• Last updated: 2013-01-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Bangladesh