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: Program participation; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Enhanced-Homestead Food Production Program | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Enhanced-Homestead Food Production Program; Assigned to Arm(s): Program participation
B: Arm Label: Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture | Arm Label: plant-based Homestead Food Production; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: plant-based Homestead Food Production | Arm Label: Control; Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: a comparison group | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: plant-based Homestead Food Production; Assigned to Arm(s): plant-based Homestead Food Production | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture; Assigned to Arm(s): Homestead Food Production plus small pond aquaculture | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: a comparison group; Assigned to Arm(s): Control
C: Arm Label: Food basket w/o nutrition education; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Food basket w/o nutrition education | Arm Label: Food basket + nutrition education; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Food basket + nutrition education | Arm Label: Control; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Control | Arm Label: Cash + health and nutrition education; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Cash + nutrition education | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Cash + nutrition education; Assigned to Arm(s): Cash + health and nutrition education | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Food basket + nutrition education; Assigned to Arm(s): Food basket + nutrition education | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Food basket w/o nutrition education; Assigned to Arm(s): Food basket w/o nutrition education | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Control; Assigned to Arm(s): Control
D: 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

Answer: D