Community intervention to improve growth among children under 2 in rural India

社区干预改善印度农村 2 岁以下儿童的成长

• 批准号: MR/K007270/1
• 负责人: Audrey Prost
• 金额: $ 120.61万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FK007270%2F1
• 关键词: Community; intervention; improve; growth; among

Many children in developing countries die or fail to grow to their full potential because of undernutrition. Forty percent of the world's undernourished children live in India. There is a critical window of opportunity to prevent undernutrition and its long-term consequences by intervening to improve the health of mothers and children between conception and two years of age. For over eight years now, international agencies, scientists and activists have recommended the introduction of a new community worker focused on improving the health and nutrition of mothers in pregnancy and children under 2 in rural areas of India. Currently there is currently is no scientifically tested, cost-effective and scalable intervention model for such a worker. In the proposed research we will test a community intervention implemented by a community worker modeled on the one proposed by the Indian government in order to understand whether it can reduce child undernutrition and how it could be scaled up. The findings from this research will be generalisable to rural areas of India with a high prevalence of undernutrition, which is a population of over 170 million, and have relevance to other low and middle-income country settings.

发展中国家的许多儿童由于营养不良而死亡或未能充分发挥其潜力。世界上40%的营养不良儿童生活在印度。通过干预改善母亲和儿童在怀孕至两岁之间的健康状况，有一个关键的机会窗口期，可以预防营养不良及其长期后果。八年来，国际机构、科学家和活动人士一直建议引进一种新的社区工作人员，专注于改善印度农村地区怀孕母亲和两岁以下儿童的健康和营养。目前还没有经过科学测试、具有成本效益和可扩展的干预模式。在拟议的研究中，我们将测试由社区工作者实施的社区干预，以印度政府提出的干预为模型，以了解它是否能减少儿童营养不良，以及如何扩大规模。这项研究的结果将推广到营养不良发生率高的印度农村地区（人口超过1.7亿），并与其他低收入和中等收入国家的情况有关。

项目成果

Experiences in running a complex electronic data capture system using mobile phones in a large-scale population trial in southern Nepal.

• DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1330858
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Global health action
• 影响因子: 2.6
• 作者: Style S;Beard BJ;Harris-Fry H;Sengupta A;Jha S;Shrestha BP;Rai A;Paudel V;Thondoo M;Pulkki-Brannstrom AM;Skordis-Worrall J;Manandhar DS;Costello A;Saville NM
• 通讯作者: Saville NM

Impact on birth weight and child growth of Participatory Learning and Action women's groups with and without transfers of food or cash during pregnancy: Findings of the low birth weight South Asia cluster-randomised controlled trial (LBWSAT) in Nepal.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194064
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: PloS one
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Saville NM;Shrestha BP;Style S;Harris-Fry H;Beard BJ;Sen A;Jha S;Rai A;Paudel V;Sah R;Paudel P;Copas A;Bhandari B;Neupane R;Morrison J;Gram L;Pulkki-Brännström AM;Skordis-Worrall J;Basnet M;de Pee S;Hall A;Harthan J;Thondoo M;Klingberg S;Messick J;Manandhar DS;Osrin D;Costello A
• 通讯作者: Costello A