Long term impact of a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial of peer counselling to improve infant feeding on growth & cognitive function of children up to 5 years in urban Bangladesh

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1071005

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bangladesh still faces high levels of inappropriate infant feeding leading to child undernutrition and delayed development. Effective programs are urgently needed to help reduce undernutrition and improve child development. This study in poor urban communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh will see if long-term counseling provided by local women to mothers about appropriate infant feeding can improve child’s nutritional status, growth and cognitive function in their children at 5 years.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $851,345.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Epidemiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

community-based | health counselling | health promotion | health services research | infant feeding | infant nutrition | randomised controlled trial (RCT) | telephone counselling

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