Clinical Trial: Effects of Complementary Feeding Counseling on Appropriate Complementary Feeding Practices and Child Undernutrition
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Feeding Behavior
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Effects of Complementary Feeding Counseling on Appropriate Complementary Feeding Practices and Child Undernutrition in West Gojjam Zone, Northwest Ethiopia: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief Summary:
Appropriate complementary feeding practices as per the world health organization recommendations is a window of opportunity to promote health and prevent acute and chronic under nutrition (stunting, wasting & underweight).Globally, the burden of under nutrition remains unacceptably high, and the progress of under nutrition reduction is unsatisfactorily slow.In Ethiopia, appropriate complementary feeding practices of mothers to their children are very low.In contrast, child under nutrition is a major public…
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