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Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City

RecruitingNAAges 1 Day - 39 YearsAllInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Resea…
NCT05311436 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

The objective of the research project is to establish an evidence-based sustainable nutrition service delivery platform for optimizing pregnancy weight gain, increasing dietary diversity of adolescent girls, and ensuring proper physical growth of under 2 children. Hypothesis 1. Pregnant Women: Intensive nutrition and WASH counseling, iron-folate, calcium supplementation during pregnancy, can improve gestational weight gain and improve hemoglobin status in pregnant women in a slum of Dhaka city 2. Adolescent girl: Iron and zinc supplementation and nutrition counseling on dietary diversity could improve nutritional status and dietary diversity score in adolescent girls of slums in Dhaka 3. Children \<2 years: Counselling on IYCF, growth monitoring, and promotion, ensuring six-monthly vitamin A supplementation, counseling on WASH, treatment of acute malnutrition, and daily 1 egg supplemen

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women: * Age 18-39 years * Before 16 weeks of gestation * BMI 15-24.99 kg/m2 measured on enrolment * Have the plan to stay in the study area till delivery * Willing to participate in the study * Not enrolled in any nutrition project/programme currently Adolescent girls: * Aged 11-19 years * Willing to participate in the study * Not involved in any nutrition project/programme * Will stay in the study area for the next 2 years Children: * Aged 0-24 months * Youngest child of the household * Caregivers have the plan to stay in the study area at least up to two years of age * Not enrolled in any nutrition project/programme currently Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women: * Subject not willing to provide consent * Subject has the plan to migrate outside of the study area during the study period * Subject has a plan to go elsewhere ( village/ parents' house) for delivery * Any reported/diagnosed chronic diseases (such as hypertension, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, pancreatic diseases, diabetes mellitus, thyroid dysfunction, immunological diseases, malignancy, or any other diseases which could impede compliance with the study protocol) * Extremely obese * Subject involved in any nutrition programme/ intervention currently Adolescent girls: * Subject not willing to give assent/consent * Subject has the plan to migrate outside the study area during the study period * Subject involved in any nutrition programme/intervention currently Children: * Caregiver/guardian not willing to provide consent * Have the plan to migrate outside of the study area during the study period * Child with any congenital anomaly * Subject involved in any nutrition programme/intervention currently
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What it tests

  • Experimental - Intensive nutrition counselling for pregnant, adolescent and under2 children
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Where

1 site
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
🤝 Taking part is your choice, and you can leave at any time. Only the trial team can confirm you are eligible — always decide together with your own doctor.
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