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Evaluation of health advice on nutrition for mothers of underweight children in JIPMER Rural Health Centre service areas,Puducherry

Effect of health education for mothers on weight gain of malnourished children in JIPMER Rural Health Centre service areas,Puducherry: An intervention study

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2013/09/003962
Enrollment
124
Registered
2013-09-06
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2021-11-24

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: health education on Nutrition: -Health education on nutritional status of the child using growth chart -child feeding practices,on quality,quantity and frequency of feeding -on factors

Sponsors

JIPMER
Lead Sponsor
JIPMER
Collaborator

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All mothers and their malnourished children aged 13 to 60 months enrolled in 8 Anganwadis of JIRHC service area, with age (±6 months) and sex matched controls taken from the Sedarpet Primary Health Centre area

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Mother or child if mentally challenged and if the child is not living with the mother

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
awareness of the mothers on child nutritional status based on ICDS growth chart;on child feeding practices;factors leading to malnutrition Anthropometric measurement weight for age(Indian Academy of Pediatric Classification)Timepoint: november 2013 to january 2014—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Anthropometric measurement weight for age(Indian Academy of Pediatric Classification) Calorie and protein inakeTimepoint: november 2013 to january 2014—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Pavithra G

JIPMER

sssgan@yahoo.com9487896551

Outcome results

None listed

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