Clinical trial NCT02237144: Transfer Modality Research Initiative - Bangladesh
Official title: Transfer Modality Research Initiative - Bangladesh
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Improving Pre-school Anthropometric Status
Improving Household Food Security
Improving Maternal Nutrition Knowledge
Lead sponsor: International Food Policy Research Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
name: Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)
name: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
name: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
name: Department for International Development, United Kingdom
name: Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers
First posted: 2014-09-11
Enrollment: 5000
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: This is a randomized control trial in two zones of Bangladesh (north and south). Treatment is assigned at the village level where treatments are: cash transfers (north and south); cash transfers + nutrition behavior communication change (north only); food transfers (north and south); food transfers + nutrition behavior communication change (south only); food-cash split (north and south); and controls (north and south). Within treatment localities, women living in very poor households are targeted to receive benefits for two years.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child age \< 60 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Child anthropometry
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Child food intake
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Child health
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Distribution of food intake within the household
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Household food security
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Maternal nutrition knowledge
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Household consumption
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Household income
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Asset accumulation
timeFrame: Baseline. Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Women's empowerment
timeFrame: Up to 12 months. Up to 24 months.
measure: Information spillovers to non-beneficiaries
timeFrame: Up to 24 months.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dhaka
country: Bangladesh
facility: International Food Policy Research Institute
Study officials:
affiliation: International Food Policy Research Institute
name: Akhter Ahmed, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: International Food Policy Research Institute
name: John Hoddinott, DPhil
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: International Food Policy Research Institute
name: Shalini Roy, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Hoddinott J, Ahmed I, Ahmed A, Roy S. Behavior change communication activities improve infant and young child nutrition knowledge and practice of neighboring non-participants in a cluster-randomized trial in rural Bangladesh. PLoS One. 2017 Jun 21;12(6):e0179866. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179866. eCollection 2017.