Double Duty Interventions and Its Impact on Double Burden of Malnutrition in Children Under Five Years
Recruiting · NCT05791305 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: Debre Berhan University
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What this trial is about
Background: Double burden of malnutrition is an emerging public health problem among children under-five years due to the inevitable consequences of nutritional transition. Addressing these two contrasting forms of malnutrition (undernutrition and overnutrition) simultaneously brings an enormous challenge to the food and nutrition policies of developing countries like Ethiopia. Children under five ages are more vulnerable to DBM, especially during the first year of their life due to high growth and inadequate diet. Hence, there has been a paradigm shift in thinking to reduce its effect on the health of children. However, interventions that are used to address these different kinds of malnutrition are implemented through different governance and still, they are isolated and disintegrated each other. Therefore, double-duty interventions can tackle the risk of both nutritional problems simultaneously in an integrated approach through nutrition behavior change communication. Objective: Therefore, the main aim of this pilot study is to assess the effect of selected double-duty interventions on the double burden of malnutrition among children under five years in Debre Berhan City, Ethiopia.
Who can take part
Inclusion criteria
- who attend the intervention
Exclusion criteria
- who are not attended the intervention
Where it is running
2 locations listed.
- Debre Berhan University - Addis Ababa, Amhara, Ethiopia
- Health - Debre Berhan, Amhara, Ethiopia