Acceptability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of soya maize sorghum-based ready-to-use therapeutic food in treating severe acute malnutrition in children under five in Lusaka, Zambia

Irish Aid (Ireland)0 个研究点目标入组 1,654 人开始时间: 2008年7月2日最近更新: 2015年1月13日

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•1. Both male and female severely acutely malnourished children in the age range of 6 - 59 months
•2. Mid-upper arm circumference less than 110 mm or oedema of + or ++
•3. Admitted into the Outpatient Therapeutic Programme at the health centre
•4. Good appetite
•5. No serious medical complication

•There are no exclusion criteria to be used as all severely malnourished children with no complications need to be treated at the health centre level until recovery. However, severely malnourished children who do not have an appetite or have severe medical complications or marasmic-kwashiorkor will be first referred to the stabilisation centre (University Teaching Hospital) straight away. These children will be taken into the study once stabilised at the inpatient unit of University Teaching Hospital. They will receive the respective RUTF being used in the health centre then return to follow up treatment.

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Irish Aid (Ireland)