How does breastfeeding prevent malnutrition

ROLE OF ANTENATAL COUNSELLING AND GOOD IYCN PRACTICES IN PREVENTING SAM IN PRETERM LBW CHILDREN

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 4

Study type

Interventional

Source

CTRI

Registry ID

CTRI/2019/04/018791

Enrollment

201

Registered

2019-04-25

Start date

Unknown

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-11-24

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Structured antenatal breast feeding counselling and counselling related to good IYCN practices: Structured antenatal breastfeeding counselling and good infant and young child feeding pr

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Women more than 18 years of age in the third trimester of pregnancy who are willing to breast feed their children and are willing to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Mothers who are not willing to participate in the study or the ones who after antenatal counseling do not undergo delivery in our hospital or where the child is born with major congenital birth defect or is below 32 weeeks or above 37 weeks of gestationor is above 2.5 Kg in birth weight

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Preventing Severe Acute Malnutrition in Preterm Low Birth Weight ChildrenTimepoint: 6 months, 9 months and 12 months of age	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Prevention of lactation failure in mothers of preterm low birth weight babiesTimepoint: 3rd day and 30th day post partum	—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Anurag Singh

Department of Paediatrics, Dr S N Medical College

singhjodhpur@gmail.com9414133692

Outcome results