Found 330 clinical trials
Nutrition Support on Outcomes and Cost-effectiveness for Patients at Risk
The aim of this large scale study to survey the prevalence of nutritional risk and malnutrition in China,Europe and USA. The impact of nutritional support for the patients at nutritional risk on clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness Already get the approval by Ethics Committee of Peking Union medical college and Johns …
Behavioral Economics to Implement a Traffic Light Nutrition Ranking System: Study 2
This is a cluster randomized controlled trial of 30 food pantries affiliated with the Greater Boston Food Bank to test the use of behavioral economics (BE) tools to encourage food pantries to implement the Supporting Wellness at Pantries (SWAP) program, with the goal of fostering accurate use of SWAP traffic …
The Stress-obesity Axis: a Metabolomics Approach Towards Personalized Nutrition in Adolescents
The ultimate aim of this project is to establish a validated strategy that allows for personalized intervention in adolescents (11 to 17 years) whom are assigned a state of overweight or obesity. The investigators will assess the following hypotheses: Weight condition is reflected by the fecal metabolome (WP1) Emotional stress …
Impact of Diet and Nutrition on Growth and Development in Young Children
The association between nutrition in early life and its long-term health consequences has long been known. However, there is a scarcity of scientific evidence on how nutritional status affects child growth and development in remote, rural agro-pastoral communities with distinct dietary intake habits, geographical location, socio-economic status, and cultures.
TARGet Kids!: Measuring Nutrition in Young Preschool Children in the Primary Care Practice Setting
TARGet Kids! (The Applied Research Group for Kids) is a research study enrolling healthy children aged 0-5 years. The aim of the TARGet Kids! registry is to link early life exposures to health problems including obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and developmental problems. TARGet Kids! represents an innovative collaboration between child health …
Nutri-CAP: Nutrition for Children, Adolescent Girls, and Pregnant Women in Slums of Dhaka City
The objective of the research project is to establish an evidence-based sustainable nutrition service delivery platform for optimizing pregnancy weight gain, increasing dietary diversity of adolescent girls, and ensuring proper physical growth of under 2 children. Hypothesis Pregnant Women: Intensive nutrition and WASH counseling, iron-folate, calcium supplementation during pregnancy, can …
OPTIMIZING ROUTINE DELIVERY OF ESSENTIAL CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION PACKAGE THROUGH PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CONTACTS
The primary objective of the study is to assess whether optimization of an essential package of health and nutrition services for children under five years of age using vitamin A supplementation touch points (i.e., the implementation model) in selected areas in Kenya and Senegal will increase the coverage of vitamin …
Development and Validation of a New Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease NUTrition Risk Score (PIBD-NUTS)
Children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including both Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) can be at high risk of developing malnutrition due to the nature of their condition. It is also believed that some children with IBD, in need of nutritional care, are not identified quickly by their …
Evaluation of REACTS-IN, an Intervention to Improve Nutrition, Hygiene, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
This is an independent evaluation of World VIsion's 7-year quasi-experimental intervention to improve nutrition, nutrition-related rights and gender equality for women, adolescent girls, and children under five years of age in rural Bangladesh, Kenya, and Tanzania. The evaluation will collect baseline, midline, and end-line data from intervention communities, schools, and …
Mother Screening for Relapse Using Mid-upper Arm Circumference Among Children Recovered From Severe Acute Malnutrition (Full Scale Trial)
A 1:1:1 individually randomized unmasked controlled trial is proposed in which caregivers will be trained to screen their children who have recovered from an episode of SAM (severe acute malnutrition) using MUAC (mid-upper arm circumference) tapes. One arm will include caregiver screening with a mid-upper arm circumference tape and usual …
