Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: MAM'Out Project - Evaluation of Multiannual and Seasonal Cash Transfers to Prevent Acute Malnutrition
Brief Summary: The MAM'Out research project aims at evaluating a seasonal and multi-annual cash transfer program in the framework of a safety net to prevent acute malnutrition by children under 24 months, in terms of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in the Tapoa province (East region of Burkina Faso, Africa). The program will be targeted to economically vulnerable households with children less than 1 year old at the time of inclusion and the cash distributed to mothers. The transfers will be assimilated to unconditional ones, leading to beneficiaries' self-determination on the use that will be made of cash. This study will be designed as a two-arm cluster randomized intervention trial, based on randomization of rural villages of the Tapoa province. One arm will receive the intervention and one will be a control arm. The main outcomes will be the cumulative incidence of acute malnutrition (or wasting) and the cost-effectiveness. Anthropometric measures (height, weight and MUAC) will be measured, as well as indicators of dietary diversity, food security, health center frequentation, families' expenses and morbidities. Questionnaires and 24-hour food recalls will also be analyzed. Finally, based on a model theory framework built a priori, the pathways used by the cash to have an effect on the prevention of under-nutrition will be assessed.


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A: Arm Label: Cash transfer; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Cash transfer | Arm Label: Comparison group; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Cash transfer; Assigned to Arm(s): Cash transfer
B: Arm Label: Conditional Cash Transfer; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Conditional Cash Transfer, Other: Standard Agricultural Package, Other: Parenting Skills Classes | Arm Label: Unconditional Cash Transfer; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Unconditional Cash Transfers, Other: Standard Agricultural Package, Other: Parenting Skills Classes | Arm Label: Control; Type: OTHER; Interventions: Other: Standard Agricultural Package, Other: Parenting Skills Classes | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Conditional Cash Transfer; Assigned to Arm(s): Conditional Cash Transfer | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Unconditional Cash Transfers; Assigned to Arm(s): Unconditional Cash Transfer | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Standard Agricultural Package; Assigned to Arm(s): Conditional Cash Transfer, Control, Unconditional Cash Transfer | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Parenting Skills Classes; Assigned to Arm(s): Conditional Cash Transfer, Control, Unconditional Cash Transfer
C: Arm Label: Outpatient therapeutic program, counseling and cash transfer; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Outpatient therapeutic program, counseling and cash transfer | Arm Label: Outpatient therapeutic program and counseling; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: Outpatient therapeutic program and counseling | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Outpatient therapeutic program, counseling and cash transfer; Assigned to Arm(s): Outpatient therapeutic program, counseling and cash transfer | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Outpatient therapeutic program and counseling; Assigned to Arm(s): Outpatient therapeutic program and counseling
D: Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Cash; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Cash | Arm Label: Voucher; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Voucher | Arm Label: Food; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Food | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Cash; Assigned to Arm(s): Cash | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Voucher; Assigned to Arm(s): Voucher | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Food; Assigned to Arm(s): Food

Answer: A