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ISRCTN25360839
Completed
Not Applicable

A cluster randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness ofearly initiation and longer duration of emergency/seasonal unconditional cash transfers on children’s nutritional status in Tahoua, Niger

niversity College London0 sites7,000 target enrollmentMarch 19, 2015
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ConditionsChild undernutritionNutritional, Metabolic, EndocrineMalnutrition

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Child undernutrition
Sponsor
niversity College London
Enrollment
7000
Status
Completed
Last Updated
7 years ago
OverviewInvestigatorsEligibility CriteriaOutcomesSimilar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

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

Registry
who.int
Start Date
March 19, 2015
End Date
December 31, 2015
Last Updated
7 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversity College London

Eligibility Criteria

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

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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