Efficacy of ready-to-use food supplement for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition among children aged 6 to 59 months.
RUF
children aged 6 to 59 months
food supplement
moderate acute malnutrition
undernutrition
Journal
Maternal & child nutrition
ISSN: 1740-8709
Titre abrégé: Matern Child Nutr
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101201025
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 Jan 2024
08 Jan 2024
Historique:
revised:
08
11
2023
received:
03
08
2023
accepted:
22
11
2023
medline:
9
1
2024
pubmed:
9
1
2024
entrez:
9
1
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) is a persistent public health problem in Tanzania. The current approach for its management is nutrition counselling. However, there has been no commercial production of ready-to-use supplementary foods for the management of MAM in the country but rather imported from companies outside the country. The objective of the study was to determine the ability of a ready-to-use food supplementation versus corn soya blend (CSB+) to manage MAM. The randomised controlled trial employed three parallel arm approach. The first arm received CSB+ and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling, the second arm received ready-to-use food (RUF) and IYCF counselling and the third arm, a control group, received IYCF as standard care for three consecutive months. Results indicated that the overall proportion of children who recovered from MAM was 65.6%. There was a significant difference (p < 0.001) in the proportion of children who recovered from MAM between the three arms (CSB+, RUF and standard care). Results revealed further a high recovery rate of 83.7% in the RUF arm, followed by 71.9% in the CSB+ arm and 41% in the standard care arm. The risk differences for RUF compared with CSB+ and standard care were 11.8% and 42.7%, respectively. RUFs can be used as an alternative supplement to conventional CSB+ for the management of MAM in children and, thus, has the potential to scale up its use to address the problem of MAM among 6 to 59 months' children.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e13602Subventions
Organisme : World Food Programme
Informations de copyright
© 2024 The Authors. Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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