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Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia

Background: In Cambodia, stunting and wasting affect, respectively, 32% and 10% of children 0–59 months while 55% are anemic. Our research aims to assess the efficiency of two local foods combined with nutritional education and counseling (CEN) activities as compared to CEN alone on improving child...

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Autores principales: Menasria, Lylia, Blaney, Sonia, Main, Barbara, Vong, Lenin, Hun, Vannary, Raminashvili, David, Chhea, Chhorvann, Chiasson, Lucie, Leblanc, Caroline P.
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Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6212877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30301233
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10101450
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author Menasria, Lylia
Blaney, Sonia
Main, Barbara
Vong, Lenin
Hun, Vannary
Raminashvili, David
Chhea, Chhorvann
Chiasson, Lucie
Leblanc, Caroline P.
author_facet Menasria, Lylia
Blaney, Sonia
Main, Barbara
Vong, Lenin
Hun, Vannary
Raminashvili, David
Chhea, Chhorvann
Chiasson, Lucie
Leblanc, Caroline P.
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description Background: In Cambodia, stunting and wasting affect, respectively, 32% and 10% of children 0–59 months while 55% are anemic. Our research aims to assess the efficiency of two local foods combined with nutritional education and counseling (CEN) activities as compared to CEN alone on improving child nutritional status and dietary intake. Methods: A cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted in Soth Nikum area over a six-month period among children 6–23 months (n = 360) assigned to receive either moringa +CEN, cricket +CEN or CEN alone. Anthropometric measurements were performed and hemoglobin and ferritin levels assessed. Results: Overall, no significant increase in the mean length/height-for-age z-score was observed, although a small increase of the weight-for-length/height was noted in intervention groups. Hemoglobin and ferritin mean values increased in all groups. The degree of satisfaction of energy, proteins, iron, and zinc requirements improved in all groups, but to a greater extent in the intervention groups and more children were healthy. Conclusion: Our research shows no significant impact of the provision of two local foods combined with CEN on the improvement of child nutritional status as compared to CEN alone. However, children consuming them better fulfilled their energy, iron, and zinc requirements and were healthier.
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spelling pubmed-62128772018-11-06 Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia Menasria, Lylia Blaney, Sonia Main, Barbara Vong, Lenin Hun, Vannary Raminashvili, David Chhea, Chhorvann Chiasson, Lucie Leblanc, Caroline P. Nutrients Article Background: In Cambodia, stunting and wasting affect, respectively, 32% and 10% of children 0–59 months while 55% are anemic. Our research aims to assess the efficiency of two local foods combined with nutritional education and counseling (CEN) activities as compared to CEN alone on improving child nutritional status and dietary intake. Methods: A cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted in Soth Nikum area over a six-month period among children 6–23 months (n = 360) assigned to receive either moringa +CEN, cricket +CEN or CEN alone. Anthropometric measurements were performed and hemoglobin and ferritin levels assessed. Results: Overall, no significant increase in the mean length/height-for-age z-score was observed, although a small increase of the weight-for-length/height was noted in intervention groups. Hemoglobin and ferritin mean values increased in all groups. The degree of satisfaction of energy, proteins, iron, and zinc requirements improved in all groups, but to a greater extent in the intervention groups and more children were healthy. Conclusion: Our research shows no significant impact of the provision of two local foods combined with CEN on the improvement of child nutritional status as compared to CEN alone. However, children consuming them better fulfilled their energy, iron, and zinc requirements and were healthier. MDPI 2018-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6212877/ /pubmed/30301233 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10101450 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Menasria, Lylia
Blaney, Sonia
Main, Barbara
Vong, Lenin
Hun, Vannary
Raminashvili, David
Chhea, Chhorvann
Chiasson, Lucie
Leblanc, Caroline P.
Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia
title Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia
title_full Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia
title_fullStr Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia
title_full_unstemmed Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia
title_short Mitigated Impact of Provision of Local Foods Combined with Nutrition Education and Counseling on Young Child Nutritional Status in Cambodia
title_sort mitigated impact of provision of local foods combined with nutrition education and counseling on young child nutritional status in cambodia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6212877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30301233
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10101450
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