A healthy future for young children in rural China: evaluating a community health worker program to improve maternal, newborn and child health

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Completed

Conditions: Early childhood health/nutrition and maternal well-being among rural households in China
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Registration Number: ISRCTN16800789

Lead Sponsor: Stanford University

Brief Summary: 2024 Other publications in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38845456/ Maternal empowerment, feeding knowledge, and infant nutrition (added 07/06/2024)

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 1689

Inclusion Criteria

Community-level inclusion criteria:
1. Located within four selected nationally designated poverty counties
2. Support from the township health centers and county maternal and child hospitals
3. At least one CHW candidate who is willing to participate in the training for the Healthy Future program
4. At least 12 households with pregnant women or children under 12 months of age

Individual-level inclusion criteria:
1. Pregnant women or caregivers of children 0-6 months of age
2. Wiling to participate in the Healthy Future program
3. Willing to participate in the impact evaluation, including the household surveys, anthropometric measures, and hemoglobin tests
4. Able and willing to give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Babies over 6 months at the time of enrollment
2. Babies and pregnant women who do not live in the township most of the time (e.g., live in the county seat; have a home in the township but typically stay somewhere else for work)
3. Infants with serious congenital diseases, infectious diseases, genetic metabolic diseases or other disabilities

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Hemoglobin concentration of children aged 6 weeks - 18 months, measured using HemoCue 201+ test at baseline, 6 months and 12 months<br>2. Exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months (proportion of children aged <6 months who received only breastmilk in the previous day), measured using WHO Infant and young child feeding indicators at baseline, 6 months and 12 months<br>3. Dietary diversity (number of food groups consumed by children aged 6 – 18 months in the previous day), measured using WHO infant and young child feeding indicators at baseline, 6 months and 12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures