Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04135625
Improving Nutrition in Children Under Two Through Increased Egg Consumption in Burkina Faso
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 267 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Florida · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 6 Months – 18 Months
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This project targets vulnerable populations of smallholders, women and children and should lead to increased poultry production, increased egg consumption of children, improved nutrition, and increased household level resilience. This innovative intervention will be the gifting of chickens by religious leaders to children ages 6 to 12 months coupled with integrated nutrition and agricultural trainings.
Detailed description
This study involves innovative behavioral change theoretical methodology to empower caregivers as smallholder poultry producers by improving their access to livestock production resources and agricultural extension services, providing tools for improved decision making, and enhancing nutrition based knowledge. Smallholder production is important in eliminating food insecurities and building resilience to improve nutrition in children under 5. Based on the results of the Ethiopian egg project, through messaging and education, this study will foster favorable attitudes and consequent behavioral changes, including increased egg consumption.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Integrated nutrition and agricultural (INA) trainings | Monthly INA training session to help increase knowledge about nutrition and chicken husbandry and help to increase resiliency on a household level. |
| BEHAVIORAL | Ceremonial Gifting of Livestock | Egg laying chickens will be presented as a gift to the child by a community champion (their religious leader or village chief)) during a gifting ceremony |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-07-05
- Primary completion
- 2019-09-20
- Completion
- 2019-09-20
- First posted
- 2019-10-22
- Last updated
- 2021-06-30
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Burkina Faso
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04135625. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.