NCT05878886

Mangrove-sword Bean-food Bar on the Weight and Weight for Age Z Score of Under-five Children

Effect of Mangrove-sword Bean-food Bar on the Weight and Weight-for-Age Z Score of Under-five Children Affected by Landslide Disaster. The Pre-post Intervention Study Towards 34 Under-five Children During 15 Days

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: Indonesia University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Months – 49 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the effect of the food bar made from api-api mangrove (Avicennia marina) and sword bean (Canavalia ensiformis) blends on the weight and Weight-for-Age Z score affected by a landslide disaster. The main questions aimed to answer are: * Food bar supplementation can effect the weight and WAZ score of under-five children affected by landslides disaster? * Balanced nutrition education can increase the mothers' knowledge on the balanced nutrition of under-five children? Participants divided in to two group i.e.: * Treatment/intervention group consumed 50 g mangrove sword bean food bar each day during 15 days. * Control group consumed 50 g sword bean food bar each day during 15 days. * Each group received balanced nutrition for mothers once at the first week of study.

Detailed description

Eligibility Criteria for Under-five children: * Aged between 12 and 59 months * Male and female * Living in Cihanjuang Village of Sumedang District which affected by the landslide disaster * Had malnutrition, normal, or over-nutrition status, and not suffering from infectious diseases.

Conditions

• Nutrition Poor

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Emergency Food Product	Each subjects of treatment group consumed 50 g food bar during 15 days. Monitoring of compliance undertaken by home visit to recall daily food consumption three days a week and to record the food bar stocks at home during study, and also weekly weight measurement.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-01
• Primary completion: 2022-08-15
• Completion: 2022-10-30
• First posted: 2023-05-26
• Last updated: 2023-05-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Indonesia