Child undernutrition Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
Conditions
Interventions
The clusters being studied comprise camps for internally displaced people within the Afgooye Corridor area of peri-urban Mogadishu. The camps vary in size and contain makeshift, temporary, houses. All
a cash transfer conditionality and a mHealth intervention.
Cash will be provided to households as either an unconditional (UCT) or conditional (CCT) cash transfer. For ethical reasons
and they will be issued with a child health record card. All the study camps have similar access to local health clinics. Compliance with the health clinic visit will be verified by asking for the chi
Sponsors
University College London
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Males and females between the ages of 0 and 59 months will be eligible to be recruited
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Children with a disability that prevents taking weight or height measures 2. Children with a medical condition that prevents them eating a normal diet 3. Children confined to bed due to illness 4. Children living in a household in which the mother/carer is unable to respond to questions due to a speech or hearing impairment
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Measles vaccination coverage - % of children 9-<59 months of age who received measles vaccine - EPI vaccination coverage - % of children 0-<59 months of age who received all vaccines required by the national vaccination protocols (measured at baseline and endline via Caregiver interview and health record card examination) 2. Child diet diversity score of children 6--<24 months of age (measured at baseline and endline via Caregiver 24 hour dietary recall) 3. Parental/caretakers knowledge of BCC health and nutrition topics (measured monthly via questionnaire) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Incidence of acute malnutrition - MUAC<12.5 cm or oedema among children 6-59 months (measured monthly during household visits) 2. Incidence of mortality among children 6-59 months (assessed monthly by questionnaire during household visits) 3. Exclusive breastfeeding prevalence - % of infants 0-5 months who were exclusively breastfed during the last 24 hours (measured at baseline and endline via Caregiver 24 hour dietary recall) 4. Incidence of child morbidity (assessed monthly by questionnaire during household visits) 5. Causes of death ascertained by Verbal Autopsy (assessed by Caregiver interview following a mourning period) | — |
Countries
Somalia
Outcome results
None listed