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.


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A: Arm Label: RUSF (500kcal/day) and cash transfer; Type: N/A; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Super Cereal Plus (SC+); Type: N/A; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: RUSF; Type: N/A; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: RUSF (250kcal/day) and cash transfer; Type: N/A; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: SC+ and cash transfer; Type: N/A; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: SC+ and household ration; Type: N/A; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Cash transfer; Type: N/A; Interventions: N/A
B: Arm Label: Comprehensive; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: LNS-PLW, Dietary Supplement: LNS-Child | Arm Label: Child-only LNS; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: LNS-Child, Dietary Supplement: IFA | Arm Label: Child-only MNP; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: MNP, Dietary Supplement: IFA | Arm Label: Control: IFA; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: IFA | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: LNS-PLW; Assigned to Arm(s): Comprehensive | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: LNS-Child; Assigned to Arm(s): Child-only LNS, Comprehensive | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: MNP; Assigned to Arm(s): Child-only MNP | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: IFA; Assigned to Arm(s): Child-only LNS, Child-only MNP, Control: IFA
C: Arm Label: Pushti Packet; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Pushti packet | Arm Label: Rice based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Rice based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements | Arm Label: Chick-pea based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Chick-pea based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: Pushti packet; Assigned to Arm(s): Pushti Packet | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: Rice based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements; Assigned to Arm(s): Rice based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: Chick-pea based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements; Assigned to Arm(s): Chick-pea based Ready to Use Complementary Food Supplements
D: Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: PlumpyNut; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A | Intervention Type: DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT; Name: PlumpyDoz; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A

Answer: D