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A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, Anthropometry, and Intermediate Outcomes

BACKGROUND: Women's self-help groups (SHGs) have become one of the largest institutional platforms serving the poor. Nutrition behavior change communication (BCC) interventions delivered through SHGs can improve maternal and child nutrition outcomes. OBJECTIVES: The objective was to understand...

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Autores principales: Scott, Samuel, Gupta, Shivani, Menon, Purnima, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Thai, Giang, Quisumbing, Agnes, Prasad, Vandana, Hegde, Aditi, Choudhury, Avijit, Khetan, Madhu, Nichols, Carly, Kumar, Neha
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35694241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac079
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author Scott, Samuel
Gupta, Shivani
Menon, Purnima
Raghunathan, Kalyani
Thai, Giang
Quisumbing, Agnes
Prasad, Vandana
Hegde, Aditi
Choudhury, Avijit
Khetan, Madhu
Nichols, Carly
Kumar, Neha
author_facet Scott, Samuel
Gupta, Shivani
Menon, Purnima
Raghunathan, Kalyani
Thai, Giang
Quisumbing, Agnes
Prasad, Vandana
Hegde, Aditi
Choudhury, Avijit
Khetan, Madhu
Nichols, Carly
Kumar, Neha
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description BACKGROUND: Women's self-help groups (SHGs) have become one of the largest institutional platforms serving the poor. Nutrition behavior change communication (BCC) interventions delivered through SHGs can improve maternal and child nutrition outcomes. OBJECTIVES: The objective was to understand the effects of a nutrition BCC intervention delivered through SHGs in rural India on intermediate outcomes and nutrition outcomes. METHODS: We compared 16 matched blocks where communities were supported to form SHGs and improve livelihoods; 8 blocks received a 3-y nutrition intensive (NI) intervention with nutrition BCC, and agriculture- and rights-based information, facilitated by a trained female volunteer; another 8 blocks received standard activities (STD) to support savings/livelihoods. Repeated cross-sectional surveys of mother-child pairs were conducted in 2017–2018 (n = 1609 pairs) and 2019–2020 (n = 1841 pairs). We matched treatment groups over time and applied difference-in-difference regression models to estimate impacts on intermediate outcomes (knowledge, income, agriculture/livelihoods, rights, empowerment) and nutrition outcomes (child feeding, woman's diet, woman and child anthropometry). Analyses were repeated on households with ≥1 SHG member. RESULTS: Forty percent of women were SHG members and 50% were from households with ≥1 SHG member. Only 10% of women in NI blocks had heard of intervention content at endline. Knowledge improved in both NI and STD groups. There was a positive NI impact on knowledge of timely introduction of animal-sourced foods to children (P < 0.05) but not on other intermediate outcomes. No impacts were observed for anthropometry or diet indicators except child animal-source food consumption (P < 0.01). In households with ≥1 SHG member, there was a positive NI impact on child unhealthy food consumption (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Limited impacts could be due to limited exposure or skills of volunteers, and a concurrent national nutrition campaign. Our findings add to a growing literature on SHG-based BCC interventions and the conditions necessary for their success.
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spelling pubmed-91773832022-06-10 A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, Anthropometry, and Intermediate Outcomes Scott, Samuel Gupta, Shivani Menon, Purnima Raghunathan, Kalyani Thai, Giang Quisumbing, Agnes Prasad, Vandana Hegde, Aditi Choudhury, Avijit Khetan, Madhu Nichols, Carly Kumar, Neha Curr Dev Nutr Original Research BACKGROUND: Women's self-help groups (SHGs) have become one of the largest institutional platforms serving the poor. Nutrition behavior change communication (BCC) interventions delivered through SHGs can improve maternal and child nutrition outcomes. OBJECTIVES: The objective was to understand the effects of a nutrition BCC intervention delivered through SHGs in rural India on intermediate outcomes and nutrition outcomes. METHODS: We compared 16 matched blocks where communities were supported to form SHGs and improve livelihoods; 8 blocks received a 3-y nutrition intensive (NI) intervention with nutrition BCC, and agriculture- and rights-based information, facilitated by a trained female volunteer; another 8 blocks received standard activities (STD) to support savings/livelihoods. Repeated cross-sectional surveys of mother-child pairs were conducted in 2017–2018 (n = 1609 pairs) and 2019–2020 (n = 1841 pairs). We matched treatment groups over time and applied difference-in-difference regression models to estimate impacts on intermediate outcomes (knowledge, income, agriculture/livelihoods, rights, empowerment) and nutrition outcomes (child feeding, woman's diet, woman and child anthropometry). Analyses were repeated on households with ≥1 SHG member. RESULTS: Forty percent of women were SHG members and 50% were from households with ≥1 SHG member. Only 10% of women in NI blocks had heard of intervention content at endline. Knowledge improved in both NI and STD groups. There was a positive NI impact on knowledge of timely introduction of animal-sourced foods to children (P < 0.05) but not on other intermediate outcomes. No impacts were observed for anthropometry or diet indicators except child animal-source food consumption (P < 0.01). In households with ≥1 SHG member, there was a positive NI impact on child unhealthy food consumption (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Limited impacts could be due to limited exposure or skills of volunteers, and a concurrent national nutrition campaign. Our findings add to a growing literature on SHG-based BCC interventions and the conditions necessary for their success. Oxford University Press 2022-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9177383/ /pubmed/35694241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac079 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society for Nutrition. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Research
Scott, Samuel
Gupta, Shivani
Menon, Purnima
Raghunathan, Kalyani
Thai, Giang
Quisumbing, Agnes
Prasad, Vandana
Hegde, Aditi
Choudhury, Avijit
Khetan, Madhu
Nichols, Carly
Kumar, Neha
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, Anthropometry, and Intermediate Outcomes
title A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, Anthropometry, and Intermediate Outcomes
title_full A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, Anthropometry, and Intermediate Outcomes
title_fullStr A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, Anthropometry, and Intermediate Outcomes
title_full_unstemmed A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, Anthropometry, and Intermediate Outcomes
title_short A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Nutrition Behavior Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in Rural India: Impacts on Maternal and Young Child Diets, Anthropometry, and Intermediate Outcomes
title_sort quasi-experimental evaluation of a nutrition behavior change intervention delivered through women's self-help groups in rural india: impacts on maternal and young child diets, anthropometry, and intermediate outcomes
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35694241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac079
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