Smartphone-Based Maternal Education for the Complementary Feeding of Undernourished Children Under 3 Years of Age in Food-Secure Communities: Randomised Controlled Trial in Urmia, Iran.

ABSTRACT: The mothers' nutritional literacy is an important determinant of child malnourishment. We assessed the effect of a smartphone-based maternal nutritional education programme for the complementary feeding of undernourished children under 3 years of age in a food-secure middle-income community. The study used a randomised controlled trial design with one intervention arm and one control arm (n = 110; 1:1 ratio) and was performed at one well-child clinic in Urmia, Iran. An educational smartphone application was delivered to the intervention group for a 6-month period while the control group received treatment-as-usual (TAU) with regular check-ups of the child's development at the well-child centre and the provision of standard nutritional information. The primary outcome measure was change in

SUBMITTER: Seyyedi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7071370 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature