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How immediate and significant is the outcome of training on diversified diets, hygiene and food safety? An effort to mitigate child undernutrition in rural Malawi

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10522/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017003652
10.1017/S1368980017003652
 
Title How immediate and significant is the outcome of training on diversified diets, hygiene and food safety? An effort to mitigate child undernutrition in rural Malawi
 
Creator Anitha, S
Tsusaka, T W
Munthali, T W
Musukwa, M
Mwangwela, A
Kalumikiza, Z
Manani, T
Kachulu, L
Kumwenda, N
Musoke, M
Okori, P
 
Subject Food and Nutrition
Food Security
Africa
Malawi
 
Description Objective
The present study examined the impacts of training on nutrition, hygiene and food safety designed by the Nutrition Working Group, Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group (CORE).

Design
Adapted from the 21d Positive Deviance/Hearth model, mothers were trained on the subjects of appropriate complementary feeding, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices, and aflatoxin contamination in food. To assess the impacts on child undernutrition, a randomised controlled trial was implemented on a sample of 179 mothers and their children (
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Date 2018-04
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10522/1/how_immediate_and_significant_is_the_outcome_of_training_on_diversified_diets.pdf
Anitha, S and Tsusaka, T W and Munthali, T W and Musukwa, M and Mwangwela, A and Kalumikiza, Z and Manani, T and Kachulu, L and Kumwenda, N and Musoke, M and Okori, P (2018) How immediate and significant is the outcome of training on diversified diets, hygiene and food safety? An effort to mitigate child undernutrition in rural Malawi. Public Health Nutrition (TSI), 21 (6). pp. 1156-1166. ISSN 1368-9800