Ghana MHL Project, Tamale

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Pregnancy

• Registration Number: NCT06898346
• Lead Sponsor: Yale University

Brief Summary

This study is designed to test a nutrition education program that focuses on local foods in northern Ghana. The goal is to help pregnant women eat a wider variety of foods, increase their intake of protein, energy, and iron-rich foods, and support healthy weight gain during pregnancy. We want to understand how this program impacts mothers' knowledge about nutrition and health, and how it affects the health of their babies. The program was created with input from pregnant women and health professionals in the community.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2025-03
• Study First Submitted: 2025-03-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-03-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-20
• Study First Posted: 2025-03-27
• Last Update Posted: 2025-03-27
• Study Start: 2025-05
• Primary Completion: 2026-09
• Study Completion: 2026-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 250

Inclusion Criteria

• Nulliparous pregnant (first-time) mothers (BMI<20kg/m2) between the ages of 18 and 40 attending antenatal sessions and in their second trimester, gestational ages (GA) of 16 weeks to 20 weeks, who are not carrying multiple fetuses

Exclusion Criteria

• Women with pregnancies greater than 20 weeks gestation, to ensure adequate exposure to the intervention; mothers presenting with significant morbidity or who are admitted due to complications and mothers who cannot confirm an address or contact information and do not plan to deliver at a health facility as well as those who indicate that they would not deliver in the study region (those who will be out of town at time of delivery).

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Dietary Diversity in Women	15-17 weeks	Maternal dietary diversity will also be determined from 24-hr recalls by assessing how many food groups a woman consumed each day based on FAO definitions (FAO and FHI 360, 2016)
Health Literacy	10-12 weeks	Health literacy (HL) in women will be assessed using the All Aspects of Health Literacy Scale (AAHLS) developed by Chinn and McCarthy (2013), and maternal health literacy (MHL) will be assessed using an abridged version of the Maternal Health Literacy Inventory In Pregnancy (MHELIP) (Taheri et al, 2020).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Nutrition Knowledge	15-17 weeks	Maternal nutrition knowledge (NK) will be assessed with a questionnaire adapted from abridged versions of 2 previously validated questionnaires (de Jersey et al., 2013; Parmenter and Wardle, 1999)
Infant birth weight	20 weeks	Infant's weight at birth and other anthropometry (length, head circumference) is usually collected within 24 hours at the hospitals using infant weighing scales.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tamale Teaching Hospital; 🇬🇭 Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana