Effect of pumpkin pulp-seed intake on children's nutritional status
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Prevention of malnutrition among children aged under 5 yearsNutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 108
Inclusion Criteria
1. Give informed consent and assent from the children
2. Moderately malnourished or healthy children
3. Caregivers allowing periodic home visits
4. Those with no plans of relocating from the study area during the six months of study and also those who had lived in the study location for more than 6 months
Exclusion Criteria
1. Those with severe malnutrition
2. Visibly very sick children
3. No consent from caregivers
4. Those on other nutritional support programs
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method utritional status of children fed either sorghum flour or sorghum grain-pumpkin flour blend porridge measured using biochemical methods baseline and endline (6 months)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Anthropometric indices measures included height, weight, age and sex, defined by WHO child growth standards (WHO, 2008), measured using participant's actual body measures at baseline and months 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6<br> 2. Dietary intake data measured using a participant self-reported 7-day food frequency questionnaire, 24-hour dietary recall questionnaire and dietary diversity questionnaire following the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO 2015) guidelines at baseline and months 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6<br> 3. Morbidity measured using morbidity study questionnaires (interviews) at baseline and every two weeks until the end of the study at 6 months<br>