Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
Conditions
Interventions
T2 Minimal training and supervision on family MUAC use and malnutrition awareness
T3 Intensive training and supervision on family MUAC use and malnutrition awareness
T1 Standard Care
Sponsors
World Vision Unites States
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Randomly selected households participating in the SPIR II implementation Woredas with children 6-47 months of age at the time of enrollment.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Caregivers who cannot or are unwilling to give informed consent. - Children outside the 6–47-month age range at the beginning of the phase (to enable follow-up of children ages 6-59 months only).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Ability of caregivers to correctly use the tape and measure MUAC accurately, validated by the health worker in health facilities or HEW in communities (the gold standard). In line with the primary outcome of interest, confirmed wasting, including the ability of caregivers to accurately identify malnutrition in children (sensitivity) and the ability of caregivers to rightly identify children without malnutrition using the MUAC tape (specificity), validated by the health worker in health facilities or HEW in communities (the gold standard) will also be reported. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Proportion of caregivers who are able to accurately detect malnutrition and self-refer to respective facilities.;Median MUAC measurements at the time of admission for the self-referred caregivers, validated by the health workers.;Proportion of children admitted into a therapeutic feeding program and their recovery rates based on the accessibility of the monthly datasets obtained from the health centers.;Caregivers' perceptions and knowledge of malnutrition;Costs associated with implementation of arm two vs arm three | — |
Countries
Ethiopia
Contacts
Public ContactPrecious Mubanga
World Vision United States
Outcome results
None listed