Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Sentinel Surveillance of Acute Malnutrition in the Region of Maradi, Niger, Children Under 5: Impact of a Preventive Intervention
Brief Summary: Malnutrition is a critical public health problem in developing countries. Malnutrition may be linked to more than one half of the deaths in children under 5 years old. In July 2001, after an intervention related to a measles epidemic, Medecins sans Frontieres-France opened a nutritional program in Maradi, in the South of Niger. The introduction of ready to use therapeutic foods (RUTF), in particular Plumpy'Nut (Nutriset, France) allowed for the treatment of the majority of children at their homes using ambulatory treatment. Children with complicated cases were cared for in an inpatient center. With ambulatory treatment the number of children cared for in the MSF program reached close to 70000 in 2006.

This study aimed to assess the effect of a 3-month distribution of RUTF in the context of a preventative supplementary feeding program. The primary hypotheses were that short-term RUTF supplementation at the village-level would prevent declines in weight-for-height and reduce the incidence of wasting in children 6 to 60 mo of age over a period of 8 mo. Because RUTF may have additional health effects, the intervention effect on height-for-age, stunting, mortality and morbidity from malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infection were also examined.


Options:
A: Arm Label: MSPP Integrated Package; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Nutributter 3 Months, Integrated Package; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Nutributter Program, Other: Integrated Package | Arm Label: Nutributter 6 Months, Integrated Package; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Nutributter Program, Other: Integrated Package | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: Nutributter Program; Assigned to Arm(s): Nutributter 3 Months, Integrated Package, Nutributter 6 Months, Integrated Package | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Integrated Package; Assigned to Arm(s): Nutributter 3 Months, Integrated Package, Nutributter 6 Months, Integrated Package
B: Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: PlumpyNut; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: PlumpyDoz; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A
C: Arm Label: Food-for-Training component; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Food-for-Training | Arm Label: Food-for-Training + RUF (Plumpy Doz(r)); Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Plumpy Doz(r) - Ready-to-Use Food, Behavioral: Food-for-Training | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: Plumpy Doz(r) - Ready-to-Use Food; Assigned to Arm(s): Food-for-Training + RUF (Plumpy Doz(r)) | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Food-for-Training; Assigned to Arm(s): Food-for-Training + RUF (Plumpy Doz(r)), Food-for-Training component
D: Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: No food supplement; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: Food supplement: fortified spread; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: Food supplement: maize-soy flour; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A

Answer: B