NCT06898346

Ghana MHL Project, Tamale

Maternal Health, Literacy and Pregnancy Outcomes: The Role of Specialized Nutrition Education

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is designed to test a nutrition education program that focuses on local foods in northern Ghana. The goal is to help pregnant women eat a wider variety of foods, increase their intake of protein, energy, and iron-rich foods, and support healthy weight gain during pregnancy. We want to understand how this program impacts mothers' knowledge about nutrition and health, and how it affects the health of their babies. The program was created with input from pregnant women and health professionals in the community.

Conditions

• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nutrition Education	The treatment group will receive nutrition education (NE) and counseling 6 times. The 1st and 6th counselling sessions will be administered by a Registerd Dietitan in a health facility (weeks 21-22 and weeks 31-32). Four (4) bi-weekly follow-ups between these 2 sessions will be administered by Field Assistants (weeks 23, 25, 27 and 29) at the participant's home. NE will focus on dietary diversity and minimum meal frequency (Daniel et al, 2016; Gyimah et al., 2021), protein and energy intakes (Ota et al, 2015), intake of iron-rich foods (Otoo and Adam, 2016), guidelines for pregnancy with an emphasis on appropriate weight gain (Abubakar et al, 2016), and appropriate ingredients and food preparation methods required to optimize nutrition.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-03-01
• Primary completion: 2027-04-01
• Completion: 2027-04-01
• First posted: 2025-03-27
• Last updated: 2026-02-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ghana