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| Name | Class |
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| University Ghent | OTHER |
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The overall objective of this project is to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of RUF (ready-to-Use Food, Plumpy Doz(r)) to prevent moderate acute malnutrition in children aged 6-36 months if embedded in a program of conditional household food assistance.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Food-for-Training component | Active Comparator | Conditional family food supplementation (sugar, sorghum, beans, iodized salt, vegetable oil) 1800 kcal/person/day in function of attendance and participation in a sensitization program covering various themes on household, water and disease management, hygiene promotion, sanitation and dietary practices for children. |
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| Food-for-Training + RUF (Plumpy Doz(r)) | Experimental | Conditional family food supplementation (sugar, sorghum, beans, iodized salt, vegetable oil) 1800 kcal/person/day in function of attendance and participation in a sensitization program covering various themes on household, water and disease management, hygiene promotion, sanitation and dietary practices for children. In addition, a blanket supplementation with 47g RUF (Plumpy Doz(r)) per day per child is provided. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Plumpy Doz(r) - Ready-to-Use Food | Dietary Supplement | 47g Plumpy Doz(r) per day per child |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Cumulative wasting incidence, hemoglobin concentration | monthly |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| weight gain | monthly | |
| time to become wasted | monthly | |
| default rate |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Patrick Kolsteren, PhD MD | University Ghent | Principal Investigator |
| Lieven Huybregts, PhD | University Ghent | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Action Contre La Faim Tchad | Abéché | Chad |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 23028263 | Derived | Huybregts L, Houngbe F, Salpeteur C, Brown R, Roberfroid D, Ait-Aissa M, Kolsteren P. The effect of adding ready-to-use supplementary food to a general food distribution on child nutritional status and morbidity: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2012;9(9):e1001313. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001313. Epub 2012 Sep 18. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D044342 | Malnutrition |
| ID | Term |
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| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
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| Food-for-Training | Behavioral | Conditional family food supplementation (sugar, sorghum, beans, iodized salt, vegetable oil) 1800 kcal/person/day in function of attendance and participation in a sensitization program covering various themes on household, water and disease management, hygiene promotion, sanitation and dietary practices for children. |
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| monthly |
| RUF acceptability | monthly |
| dietary intake | monthly |