Clinical trial NCT01593423: Food Security and Nutrition in Rural Cambodia
Official title: Integration of Small-scale Aquaculture With Homestead Food Production for Improved Household Food Security and Nutrition in Rural Cambodia
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Household Food Security
Lead sponsor: University of British Columbia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-05-08
Enrollment: 900
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The project is a three arm randomized control trial in rural Cambodia designed to evaluate the impact of homestead food production (home gardens) with and without fish ponds versus control on household food security, dietary intake of women and youngest child, biochemical nutritional status of women, and household livelihoods over a 22 month period. Baseline and end line surveys will be conducted that involve questionnaires and a blood sample.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Must be represented by a woman.
* Must fall within the "poor" category in terms of community wealth rankings.
* Must have access to land (including homestead) for agriculture cultivation.
* Must have sufficient access to labor to undertake the homestead production activities.
* Must have a keen interest in participating in this action.
* Must have a least one child less than five years of age (in 80% of the target households).
* Have suitable land for pond and preferably own a small pond

In addition village model farm owners will:

* Have at least 1,200 square meters of land that can be used to establish the model farm;
* Have some disposable income to invest in the model farm for fencing and land preparation;
* Be productive, open to new ideas and willing to provide assistance to other households in the village;
* Be able and willing to maintain the VMF throughout the year;
* Commit to providing inputs and marketing support to group members at least during the project.

Exclusion Criteria:

* None, only that they don't meet the inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in nutritionally related biochemical measures at 22 months
timeFrame: At baseline and 22 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: 24-hour dietary recall
timeFrame: At baseline and 22 months
measure: Mid-upper arm circumference
timeFrame: At baseline and 22 months
measure: Household Food Security Scale
timeFrame: At baseline and 22 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Phnom Penh
country: Cambodia
facility: Rural Cambodia
state: Prey Veng
Study officials:
affiliation: University of British Columbia
name: Tim Green, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Williams BA, Cochrane KM, Fischer JAJ, Aljaadi AM, McAnena L, Ward M, McNulty H, Kroeun H, Green TJ, Whitfield KC, Karakochuk CD. The Homozygous Hemoglobin EE Variant Is Associated with Poorer Riboflavin Status in Cambodian Women of Reproductive Age. J Nutr. 2020 Jul 1;150(7):1943-1950. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxaa119.
citation: Michaux KD, Hou K, Karakochuk CD, Whitfield KC, Ly S, Verbowski V, Stormer A, Porter K, Li KH, Houghton LA, Lynd LD, Talukder A, McLean J, Green TJ. Effect of enhanced homestead food production on anaemia among Cambodian women and children: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Matern Child Nutr. 2019 May;15 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):e12757. doi: 10.1111/mcn.12757.