Complementary feeding: a Global Network cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inadequate and inappropriate complementary feeding are major factors contributing to excess morbidity and mortality in young children in low resource settings. Animal source foods in particular are cited as essential to achieve micronutrient requirements. The efficacy of the recommendation for regular meat consumption, however, has not been systematically evaluated.

Methods/design

A cluster randomized efficacy trial was designed to test the hypothesis that 12 months of daily intake of beef added as a complementary food would result in greater linear growth velocity than a micronutrient fortified equi-caloric rice-soy cereal supplement. The study is being conducted in 4 sites of the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research located in Guatemala, Pak

SUBMITTER: Krebs NF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3032692 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature