Effectiveness of a Ready-to-Use-Supplementary-Food for the Treatment of Moderate Childhood Malnutrition
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 570
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Recovery
研究概览
简要总结
Since 2001, Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) are widely used to treat severe malnutrition. Their efficacy and effectiveness were proven in community therapeutic care programs. Recently, the question rose if RUTF would be more effective than enriched flours to treat moderate malnutrition.
The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of Ready to Use Food Supplementary-plumpy® and Premix Corn Soy Blend with oil in term of cure rate, weight gain, duration of treatment, morbidity and mortality in the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition.
Compare the longer term effect on nutritional status and morbidity (relapse?).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 6 Months 至 5 Years(Child)
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •all children aged 6 months to 5 years admitted to SFC outpatient care during the study period
- •WHM between 70-79% (1977 NCHS/WHO standard) without edema
- •approval from the caretaker
排除标准
- •presence of the following signs: bilateral edema, MUAC<110 mm , WHM< 70%(criteria for severe malnutrition), and medical complications necessitating hospitalisation
- •refusal to participate from caretaker
结局指标
主要结局
Recovery
时间窗: 112 days
proportion of children who recovered, defined as WHM\> 85% for two consecutive weeks
次要结局
- average weight gain(112 days)
- Duration of treatment(112 days)
- Morbidity(11 months)
