Home-based Growth Charts in Indonesia
- Conditions
- Child Growth
- Interventions
- Other: Home-based growth chartsOther: Home visits for baseline surveysOther: Home visits for end line surveysOther: Measurement of child's height-for-age and weight-for-age
- Registration Number
- NCT04222998
- Lead Sponsor
- Boston University
- Brief Summary
The investigators developed a home-based growth chart that offers a simple and inexpensive way for caregivers to have access to simple health and nutrition information guided by behavioural economics analysis as well as to track their child's linear growth, empowering them to act to improve their child's nutrition. Results from a pilot study conducted in rural Zambia suggest that growth charts installed in homes can increase awareness and reduce early-life growth deficits, particularly among children experiencing growth faltering. The main objective of this study is to assess the impact and cost-effectiveness of growth charts through a cluster-randomized trial in Indonesia. The primary outcome is child height-for-age z-score.
- Detailed Description
The study is divided into two phases. In the first phase, growth chart development activities will be conducted in two villages in each of Manggarai Timur and Trenggalek districts to ensure the chart design is compatible with the local context and chart information is understandable to caregivers. Focus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs), and door-to-door user testing will be conducted in each village. Results from the FGDs and KIIs will inform a draft growth chart design that will then be user tested in 10 households in each village. Qualitative interviews will be conducted with each household approximately two weeks after chart installation to gather insights on the usability of the growth chart. The chart design will then be finalized for use in the second phase of the study.
In the second phase, 1,480 caregiver-child dyads will be recruited and enrolled in the study as part of a baseline survey. Dyads will be sampled using a two-stage procedure. 110 villages will be selected proportionate to national census population size. All sub-villages ("dusun") within selected villages will be randomly assigned into two groups: 1) Growth chart; and 2) Control. Eligible caregiver-child dyads with children between 9 and 14 months will be selected from each sub-village.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1487
- Caregivers must be 19 - 55 years old
- One child of either gender, 9-14 months old
- Caregiver can have other children
- Caregiver of any occupation and income level
- Live in Manggarai Timur and Trenggalek during inception
-Caregivers with a cognitive disability
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Intervention group Measurement of child's height-for-age and weight-for-age Household receives the home-based growth chart Intervention group Home-based growth charts Household receives the home-based growth chart Control group Home visits for baseline surveys Household does not receive the home-based growth chart Control group Home visits for end line surveys Household does not receive the home-based growth chart Control group Measurement of child's height-for-age and weight-for-age Household does not receive the home-based growth chart Intervention group Home visits for baseline surveys Household receives the home-based growth chart Intervention group Home visits for end line surveys Household receives the home-based growth chart
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Child height for age z-score (HAZ) 12 months Height/length data will be converted to height for age z-score (HAZ) using WHO (World Health Organization) growth standards.
Child stunting 12 months Child stunting is defined as height for age z-score (HAZ) \< -2
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Child weight for age z-score (WAZ) 12 months Weight data will be converted to weight for age z-score (WAZ) using WHO growth standards.
Early child development (ECD) 12 months ECD will be evaluated with the Caregiver Reported Early Childhood Development Instruments (CREDI) Long Form which assesses child cognitive, motor, language, and social-emotional development. It provides a global, population-level measure of ECD for children in the 0-3 age range. The long form has about 60 items coded as Yes=1, No=0 and Don't know=8. The CREDI Long Form creates domain-specific developmental scores.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Southeast Asia
🇮🇩Jakarta, Indonesia