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MyKid’sNutrition mobile application trial: a randomized controlled trial to promote mothers’ nutritional knowledge and nutritional status of preschool children with undernutrition—a study protocol

BACKGROUND: Childhood malnutrition is a crucial public health issue in developing countries. Mothers’ nutritional knowledge significantly affects children’s nutritional status. It also appears that mothers with low health literacy are unable to adequately meet their children’s nutritional needs beca...

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Autores principales: Hojati, Ali, Alesaeidi, Sogol, Izadi, Saeideh, Nikniaz, Alireza, Farhangi, Mahdieh Abbasalizad
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10439575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37596662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07503-w
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author Hojati, Ali
Alesaeidi, Sogol
Izadi, Saeideh
Nikniaz, Alireza
Farhangi, Mahdieh Abbasalizad
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description BACKGROUND: Childhood malnutrition is a crucial public health issue in developing countries. Mothers’ nutritional knowledge significantly affects children’s nutritional status. It also appears that mothers with low health literacy are unable to adequately meet their children’s nutritional needs because they do not clearly understand their children’s nutrition and malnutrition status. METHODS: This randomized controlled trial aims to describe the development and study protocol of the MyKid’sNutrition application, a smartphone-based intervention for mothers of preschool (2–6 years old) children. The application contains several contents on children’s healthy eating, childhood underweight, children’s loss of appetite, and child growth assessment. As part of the MyKid’sNutrition trial, a total of 116 participants will be randomized 1:1 either to (a) treatment as usual and MyKid’sNutrition or (b) treatment as usual alone. The results of this trial will be based on changes in growth indicators and mothers’ nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practice within the groups and the differences between them. DISCUSSION: Due to their widespread availability throughout society, smartphones can be used to deliver educational content on a large scale at a low cost. In addition, they can provide novel ways for patients to receive support. Hence, it is essential to conduct research studies on these types of interventions. MyKid’sNutrition application offers dietary solutions for such nutritional problems as underweight, loss of appetite, and malnutrition in children. Meanwhile, it provides detailed instructions on how to interact with the child. TRIAL REGISTRATION: IRCT.ir IRCT20140907019082N11. Registered on February 19, 2022. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-023-07503-w.
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spelling pubmed-104395752023-08-20 MyKid’sNutrition mobile application trial: a randomized controlled trial to promote mothers’ nutritional knowledge and nutritional status of preschool children with undernutrition—a study protocol Hojati, Ali Alesaeidi, Sogol Izadi, Saeideh Nikniaz, Alireza Farhangi, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Childhood malnutrition is a crucial public health issue in developing countries. Mothers’ nutritional knowledge significantly affects children’s nutritional status. It also appears that mothers with low health literacy are unable to adequately meet their children’s nutritional needs because they do not clearly understand their children’s nutrition and malnutrition status. METHODS: This randomized controlled trial aims to describe the development and study protocol of the MyKid’sNutrition application, a smartphone-based intervention for mothers of preschool (2–6 years old) children. The application contains several contents on children’s healthy eating, childhood underweight, children’s loss of appetite, and child growth assessment. As part of the MyKid’sNutrition trial, a total of 116 participants will be randomized 1:1 either to (a) treatment as usual and MyKid’sNutrition or (b) treatment as usual alone. The results of this trial will be based on changes in growth indicators and mothers’ nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practice within the groups and the differences between them. DISCUSSION: Due to their widespread availability throughout society, smartphones can be used to deliver educational content on a large scale at a low cost. In addition, they can provide novel ways for patients to receive support. Hence, it is essential to conduct research studies on these types of interventions. MyKid’sNutrition application offers dietary solutions for such nutritional problems as underweight, loss of appetite, and malnutrition in children. Meanwhile, it provides detailed instructions on how to interact with the child. TRIAL REGISTRATION: IRCT.ir IRCT20140907019082N11. Registered on February 19, 2022. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-023-07503-w. BioMed Central 2023-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10439575/ /pubmed/37596662 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07503-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Alesaeidi, Sogol
Izadi, Saeideh
Nikniaz, Alireza
Farhangi, Mahdieh Abbasalizad
MyKid’sNutrition mobile application trial: a randomized controlled trial to promote mothers’ nutritional knowledge and nutritional status of preschool children with undernutrition—a study protocol
title MyKid’sNutrition mobile application trial: a randomized controlled trial to promote mothers’ nutritional knowledge and nutritional status of preschool children with undernutrition—a study protocol
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10439575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37596662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07503-w
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