NCT05871346

Effects of Complementary Feeding Counseling on Appropriate Complementary Feeding Practices and Child Undernutrition

Effects of Complementary Feeding Counseling on Appropriate Complementary Feeding Practices and Child Undernutrition in West Gojjam Zone, Northwest Ethiopia: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 776 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bahir Dar University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 21 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Appropriate complementary feeding practices as per the World Health Organization recommendations is a window of opportunity to promote health and prevent acute and chronic undernutrition (stunting, wasting \& underweight). Globally, the burden of undernutrition remains unacceptably high, and the progress of undernutrition reduction is unsatisfactorily slow. In Ethiopia, appropriate complementary feeding practices of mothers to their children are very low. In contrast, child undernutrition is a major public health problem.

Detailed description

Appropriate nutrition during the first 1000 days of life lays the foundation for a child's health and well-being. Introduction of complementary foods within 6-8 months of age and step-wise increase of diversified plant and animal-based diets is necessary, for which exclusive breast milk is no longer enough to meet the nutritional needs. Appropriate complementary feeding practices as per the World Health Organization recommendations is a window of opportunity to promote health and prevent acute and chronic undernutrition (stunting, wasting \& underweight). Globally, the burden of undernutrition remains unacceptably high, and the progress of undernutrition reduction is unsatisfactorily slow. In Ethiopia, appropriate complementary feeding practices of mothers to their children are very low. In contrast, child undernutrition is a major public health problem. This study aims to determine the effects of complementary feeding counseling on appropriate complementary feeding practices and child undernutrition through a community-based randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

• Feeding Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Complementary feeding counseling	Complementary Feeding Counseling to Improve Appropriate Complementary Feeding Practices and Reduce Child Undernutrition

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-09
• Primary completion: 2024-12-30
• Completion: 2024-12-30
• First posted: 2023-05-23
• Last updated: 2025-04-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ethiopia