The impact of integrated nutrition-sensitive interventions on nutrition and health of children and women in rural Tanzania: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial

BMC Nutrition
Dominic MoshaWafaie W Fawzi

Abstract

Nutrition-sensitive interventions such as homestead production of diverse, nutrient-rich foods, coupled with behavior change communication, may have positive effects on the nutritional status and health of rural households engaged in agriculture, particularly among women and young children. Engagement of agriculture and health extension workers in these communities may be an effective way of delivering nutrition-sensitive interventions given the dearth of trained health care providers in many developing countries. This study aims to assess the effects of integrated homestead food production, food consumption and women's empowerment interventions using a multi-sectoral approach on women's and child's health and nutrition. This is a cluster-randomized community-based prospective study set in Rufiji district, a rural area in Eastern Tanzania. Ten randomly selected villages within the Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (HDSS) in Eastern-Tanzania were paired and randomly assigned to the intervention or control arm. The Rufiji HDSS dataset was used to randomly sample households with women of reproductive age and children 6-36 months. The intervention includes provision of small agricultural inputs, garden training suppor...Continue Reading

Associated Clinical Trials

References

Jan 22, 2008·Lancet·Cesar G VictoraUNKNOWN Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group
Feb 1, 2008·The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society·Anna Lartey
Sep 16, 2010·European Journal of Clinical Nutrition·J H RahK Kraemer
Jun 14, 2012·International Journal for Equity in Health·Marinka van der HoevenMinrie Greeff
Nov 21, 2013·The Pan African Medical Journal·Luchuo Engelbert BainAjime Tom Tanjeko
Mar 10, 2015·International Journal of Epidemiology·Sigilbert MremaHonorati Masanja
Feb 6, 2017·Human Resources for Health·Jenny X LiuRichard Scheffler
Feb 12, 2017·Population Health Metrics·Dana Charles McCoyGünther Fink

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Citations

Mar 14, 2020·Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care·Emily C KeatsZulfiqar A Bhutta
Feb 13, 2019·Public Health Nutrition·Mia M BlakstadWafaie W Fawzi

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Anemia

Anemia develops when your blood lacks enough healthy red blood cells. Anemia of inflammation (AI, also called anemia of chronic disease) is a common, typically normocytic, normochromic anemia that is caused by an underlying inflammatory disease. Here is the latest research on anemia.