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Home- and community-based growth monitoring to reduce early life growth faltering: an open-label, cluster-randomized controlled trial

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Home- and community-based growth monitoring to reduce early life growth faltering: an open-label, cluster-randomized controlled trial
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QVEAJV
 
Creator Fink, Günther
Levenson, Rachel
Tembo, Sarah
Rockers, Peter C
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Despite the continued high prevalence of faltering growth, height monitoring remains limited in many low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this study was to test whether providing parents with information on their child's height can improve children's height and developmental outcomes. The results from this trial suggest that growth monitoring has a limited effect on children's height and development, despite improvements in self-reported feeding practices. HBGM had modest positive effects on children with stunted growth. Given its relatively low cost, this intervention may be a cost-effective tool for increasing parental efforts toward reducing children's physical growth deficits.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Growth faltering
Stunting
Weight
Height
Growth monitoring
Malnutrition
 
Language English
 
Contributor Research Support, Innovations for Poverty Action
 
Relation https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/106/4/1070/4652048
 
Type Survey Data
Anthropometric Data