A Randomised Controlled Home-based Trial of the Effects of Fortified Complementary Foods on Vitamin A Status and Body Pool Size in Ghanaian Infants.
A Randomised Controlled Home-based Trial of the Effects of Fortified Complementary Foods on Vitamin A Status and Body Pool Size in Ghanaian Infants.
This study tried to prove that children given food supplements containing vitamin A would have better liver vitamin A stores than children given food supplements without vitamin A over a 5 month period.
The study wanted to assess the effect of fortification of home based complementary foods on vitamin A status in Ghanaian children who receive food supplements known as Sprinkles. The study assessed the vitamin A status and body pool size in children using a test known as the modified relative dose response test (MRDR) tests and stable 13C2 retinol as a tracer, among those who receive Sprinkles with or without vitamin A through home fortification of complementary foods.
Inclusion Criteria:
Informed consent of mother of eligible children aged 6-12 months.
Willingness to remain in the study area for entire duration of the study.
Willingness to agree to feed the child with supplied micronutrient supplements for duration of study.
The child should have started taking complementary foods in addition to breast milk.
Child's haemoglobin level of at least 70 g/L.
Exclusion Criteria:
Child's haemoglobin level less than 70 g/L.
Unable to give informed consent