To study whether children taking iron syrup maintain their iron levels in their blood
Phase 2
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: D539- Nutritional anemia, unspecified
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Consecutive children aged 1 year to 5 years
without clinical anaemia, attending our pediatrics outpatient
services.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Receiving treatment for Anaemia
2. Received blood transfusion in the last 6 months
3. Clinical features suggestive of haemoglobinopathies / hemolytic
anemia/ bleeding disorders including thrombocytopenia
4. Children with undernutrition (weight for stature < 3 rd percentile in
IAPchart)
5. History and/or clinical examination suggestive of ongoing
infection/ inflammatory disease (currently or within a month)
6. Children on long term steroids / Immunosuppressives
7. Chronic organic or metabolic disease (congenital heart disease,
liver disease, interstitial lung disease, immunodeficiency states,
cognitive dysfunction)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To estimate the proportion of children aged 1 year to 5 years <br/ ><br>maintaining their iron status at the end of one year of <br/ ><br>supplementation of iron as per the National Iron Plus Initiative.Timepoint: 1 year
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To identify the causes hindering the children from getting regular iron prophylaxis at the end of 1 yearTimepoint: 1 year;To identify the proportion of children who are not getting Iron prophylaxis as per the National Iron plus initiative among the population screened at the end of 1 yearTimepoint: 1 year;To identify the socio-demographic factors associated with the noncompliance of iron prophylaxis at the end of 1 yearTimepoint: 1 year