PREPARE: Remote Nutrition Education, Ghana
- Conditions
- Dietary DiversityHealth LiteracyInfant Feeding Practices
- Interventions
- Behavioral: PREPARE Nutrition Education Module
- Registration Number
- NCT05677087
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 65
- 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.
- 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.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Prepare project education PREPARE Nutrition Education Module This group will receive an intensive 6-week remote nutrition education intervention
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method % infants meeting the Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) 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) 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. 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).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Ghana
🇬ðŸ‡Accra, Ghana