Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of early initiation and longer duration of emergency/seasonal unconditional cash transfers on children’s nutritional status in Tahoua, Niger

Completed

• Conditions: Child undernutrition; Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine; Malnutrition

• Registration Number: ISRCTN25360839
• Lead Sponsor: niversity College London

Brief Summary

2015 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26700866 2018 results in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29740973

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-03-19
• Study Completion: 2015-12-31
• Last Update Posted: 22 October 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 7000

Inclusion Criteria

1. The geographical inclusion criteria is settlements within the Affala and Takanamatt Communes of Tahoua district, Niger.
2. Within this geographical area settlements that have been previously targeted for inclusion within the Concern Worldwide humanitarian cash transfer programme, will be eligible for inclusion in the study. (Within eligible settlements, only households defined as the most vulnerable by Concern Worldwide are targeted to receive cash transfers.) Study clusters will include one or more settlements and will be randomly allocated to one of two study arms in a public randomisation event.
3. Within clusters, households receiving a cash transfer will be exhaustively sampled and a sub-sample of households not receiving the cast transfer will randomly selected.
4.Within these selected households, two groups of individuals will be exhaustively sampled::
4.1 Women aged 15-49 years
4.2 Children aged 6-59 months

Exclusion Criteria

1. Households without children aged 6-59 months
2. Severely disabled individuals on which anthropometric measures cannot be taken
3. Individuals confined to bed due to illness

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified