PREPARE Project: Examining Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal Health and Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 65
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- % infants meeting the Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD)
研究概览
简要总结
In the wake of the pandemic, it is important to explore remote nutrition education programs during the pre- and postnatal period. This is the second phase of a bigger project, where a 6-week intensive remotely delivered nutrition and health education program called the PREPARE program will be piloted. Prepare stands for "Perinatal Remote Education for Pandemic Resilience", and it is a nutrition and health education program meant for pregnant and lactating women aimed at improving maternal and infant dietary diversity, maternal health literacy and increasing COVID-19 awareness. One hundred women will be selected from a pool of 233 women who completed a baseline survey last year. Fifty of them will receive the intervention and the other 50 will receive a delayed intervention.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 49 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Women currently enrolled on the preliminary phase of the PREPARE project who participated in our baseline survey are eligible. To have been part of the preliminary survey, women had to have had children between 6 and 15 months old during recruitment last year.
- •Due to our primary outcome of infant dietary diversity, women from our preliminary survey whose children are currently between 6 months and 2 years will be included in the PREPARE pilot study.
排除标准
- •In our preliminary survey, participants were excluded if they were non-Ghanaian or currently pregnant.
- •Besides women who had children less than 6 months at time of recruitment, there will be no other exclusion criteria for the PREPARE pilot.
结局指标
主要结局
% infants meeting the Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD)
时间窗: 6 weeks
Dietary diversity refers to the number of food items consumed from WHO classified food groups over a reference period (FAO, 2016). To meet the minimum dietary diversity, infants should have consumed 4 out of 7 food groups based on a 24-hr dietary recall and the WHO food group classification: 1. grains, roots and tubers, 2. legumes and nuts, 3. dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheese), 4. flesh foods (meat, fish, poultry and liver/organ meats), 5. Eggs, 6. vitamin-A rich fruits and vegetables, 7. other fruits and vegetables
% of Mothers meeting the Minimum Dietary Diversity for women (MDD-W)
时间窗: 6 weeks
Number of food items consumed from WHO classified food groups over a reference period (FAO, 2016). To meet the minimum dietary diversity, mothers should have consumed 5 out of 10 food groups based on a 24-hr dietary recall and the WHO food group classification: 1. Grains, white roots and tubers, and plantains, 2. Pulses (beans, peas and lentils) 3. Nuts and seeds 4. Dairy 5. Meat, poultry and fish 6. Eggs 7. Dark green leafy vegetables 8. Other vitamin A-rich fruits and vegetables 9. Other vegetables 10. Other fruits
% of mothers scoring >66% on the maternal health literacy inventory in pregnancy (MHELIP) scale.
时间窗: 6 weeks
Maternal health literacy (MHL) is the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals (mothers) to gain access to, understand and use information in ways which maintain and promote health for they and their children (Renkert and Nutbeam, 2001). This will be measured on the maternal health literacy inventory in pregnancy (MHELIP) scale (Taheri et al., 2020).
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Ruthfirst Ayande
Principal Investigator
University of Massachusetts, Amherst