Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Effectiveness of a Nutrition Education Package in Improving Feeding Practices, Dietary Adequacy and Growth of Infants and Young Children in Rural Tanzania
Brief Summary: Building on the success of community-based peer education and counselling in breastfeeding, it is possible to address young child feeding and health practices in the surveyed district. Opportunities that can optimise success and encourage behaviour change in the district include mothers willingness to modify some feeding options; support of family members; seasonal availability and accessibility of foods; established set-up of village peers and existence of health centres and health staff in some villages. This study has developed a feasible, context-specific nutrition education package for use in rural Tanzania. The package is composed of 4 components, namely 1) education and counselling of mothers, 2) training of community-based nutrition counsellors, 3) sensitisation meetings with health staff and family members, and 4) supervision of community-based nutrition counsellors. The intervention will use a parallel cluster-randomised controlled trial design where infants will be recruited when aged 6 months and followed up for 9 months. The intervention expects to provide information and, where appropriate, recommendations to strengthen the nutrition component in the health education programme of the Tanzania child health services.

The study hypothesises that the nutrition education package will be more effective than the routine health education in improving feeding practices, dietary adequacy and growth of infants and young children. Specific objectives of the study include:

* To evaluate the effectiveness of a nutrition education package on feeding practices and dietary adequacy
* To determine the effectiveness of a nutrition education package in improving growth and health of infants and young children
* To document the process of implementation of the nutrition education package to promote optimal feeding and health practice


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Self-identified, English-speaking
* Low-income, adolescent
* First-time mothers between the ages of 14 and 19
* With daily web access and access to a cell phone that includes text messaging capabilities
* Family income ≤ 185% of federal poverty
* Term birth (37≤42 weeks, 2500≤3750 grams birth weight)
* Mothers and infants with no special nutrients or feeding needs
* Infants less than six weeks old at study enrollment who have not started eating solid foods
* Adolescent mothers must be a primary caretaker of the infant who feeds her infant at least once a day, and who is willing to participate in a six-week intervention with data collection at three defined time points (T1, T2, and T3)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Male caregivers
* Mothers and infants with diagnosed feeding/eating disorders
* Significant perinatal or postnatal complications
* Post partum depression or other mental health problems
* Adolescent mothers who do not share in the feeding responsibility of their infants
* Adolescents without daily web access nor a cell phone with text messaging capabilities
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Infants aged 6-7 months at the time of recruitment into the study
* Infants currently being breastfed
* Parents (or caregivers) anticipated local residence for the study duration

Exclusion Criteria:

* Congenital or chronic abnormalities impairing feeding or physical growth measurements
* Oedema
* Severely ill or clinical complications warranting hospitalisation
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child age \< 60 months
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Newborn infants with birth weight ≥ 2.500 g and gestational age ≥ 37 weeks were considered eligible for the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* HIV-positive mothers
* Congenital malformation
* Infants referred to intensive care unit
* Multiple pregnancy.

Answer: B