| Type | Journal Article - The Journal of nutrition |
| Title | Combining intensive counseling by frontline workers with a nationwide mass media campaign has large differential impacts on complementary feeding practices but not on child growth: results of a cluster-randomized program evaluation in Bangladesh |
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| Volume | 146 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2016 |
| Page numbers | 2075-2084 |
| URL | http://jn.nutrition.org/content/146/10/2075.full.pdf+html |
| Abstract | Background: Complementary feeding (CF) contributes to child growth and development, but few CF programs are delivered at scale. Alive & Thrive addressed this in Bangladesh through intensified interpersonal counseling (IPC), mass media (MM), and community mobilization (CM). Objective: The objective was to evaluate the impact of providing IPC + MM + CM (intensive) compared with standard nutrition counseling + less intensive MM + CM (nonintensive) on CF practices and anthropometric measurements. Methods: We used a cluster-randomized, nonblinded evaluation with cross-sectional surveys [n = ;600 and 1090 children 6–23.9 mo and 24–47.9 mo/group, respectively, at baseline (2010) and n = ;500 and 1100 children of the same age, respectively, at endline (2014)]. We derived difference-in-difference impact estimates (DDEs), adjusting for geographic clustering, infant age, sex, differences in baseline characteristics, and differential change in characteristics over time. |
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