Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia
Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia
NCT ID: NCT04694898 Phase: NA Status: COMPLETED Enrollment: 1292 Completion: 2021-03-13
Conditions
Stunting, Dietary Deficiency, Anemia
Interventions
Standard programme, SURE intervention
Summary
The causes of malnutrition are complex and addressing the problem requires integrated action among various sectors. Globally, much attention has been given to nutrition-specific interventions to address the immediate causes of undernutrition. But undernutrition prevalence is decreasing at a very slow rate. Nutrition-specific interventions address the immediate determinants of child undernutrition, such as inadequate food and nutrient intake, but do not consider the underlying causes such as food insecurity, poverty, and limited access to clean water, hygienic environments, and health services.
Ethiopia still has a high prevalence of undernutrition. The current situation of food insecurity and malnutrition in Ethiopia has pressurized the government in pursuing a number of nutritional-sensitive interventions to increase diversified food production and consumption like the Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction Program (SURE).
This study aims to investigate whether joint nutrition specific and sensitive interventions can lead to improved household food security, dietary diversification and improved nutritional status in Ethiopian mothers and their young children.
The study will be a community based longitudinal design and will use multistage cluster sampling at the Kebele and household levels in Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) regions.
Households will be randomly selected from the intervention and the non-intervention arms at Kebele level, with 15 households per Kebele. The same children whose baseline are available who were 0-23 months of age at the time of the baseline assessment in 2016 will be recruited as well as their mothers. This represents approximately third of the total sample size at baseline.
Primary Outcome
Hemoglobin (g/dl)