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Effectiveness of ready to eat food in treating severely malnourished children in community settings, a study from Puducherry

Effectiveness of Indigenous Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in Community-based Management of Uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): A Randomized Trial from Puducherry, India.

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2013/02/003418
Enrollment
232
Registered
2013-02-21
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2021-11-24

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Health Condition 1: null- Under five children with Uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition

Interventions

Intervention1: Study group (RUTF group) : All children (study and control group) will be followed up throughout the study period (12 weeks) at OTP (Out-patient Therapeutic Programme) site by an OPD t
but for RUTF in therapeutic dose of 200 kcal/kg/d for study group on a weekly basis. PHC will act as the OTP site. OTP site OPD will be weekly once special clinic. OTP site OPD team will include PHC m

Sponsors

ICMR New Delhi
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Operational definition of SAM would be: 6 months to 5 years children (as on date of registration) whose W/H Z score Uncomplicated SAM children are the units of study. The inclusion criteria will include the following: SAM child with all of the following namely good appetite, alert and clinically well. Child has to be resident of the area for at least 6 months. SAM children without complications who pass the â??appetite testâ?? will be accepted for out-patient care in the Out-patient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) site OPD. Appetite test as recommended by WHO/UNICEF will be used

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Complicated SAM - SAM with any one of the following namely anorexia, not alert, high fever ( >104 F), severe pallor, severe dehydration, lower respiratory tract infection, bipedal edema, visible severe wasting is the exclusion criteria.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
1. Proportion of children attaining 15% of baseline weight over 12 week intervention period (minimum 4 weeks) in study and control group 2. Rate of weight gain in study and control group: weight gain in terms of grams per kg baseline weight per day Timepoint: Minimum: 4 weeks Maximum: 12 weeks—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Cost (Rs) per DALYs avertedTimepoint: 12 weeks—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactHemant Deepak Shewade

Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry

hemantjipmer@gmail.com9442248895

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026