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 1. Pregnant Women: Intensive nutrition and WASH counseling, iron-folate, calcium supplementation during pregnancy, can improve gestational weight gain and improve hemoglobin status in pregnant women in a slum of Dhaka city 2. Adolescent girl: Iron and zinc supplementation and nutrition counseling on dietary diversity could improve nutritional status and dietary diversity score in adolescent girls of slums in Dhaka 3. Children \<2 years: Counselling on IYCF, growth monitoring, and promotion, ensuring six-monthly vitamin A supplementation, counseling on WASH, treatment of acute malnutrition, and daily 1 egg supplementation for 3 months for severely stunted children can improve the nutritional status of children 4. Counselling to improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practice: WASH intervention can improve EED biomarkers

NCT Number	NCT05311436
Lead Sponsor	International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh Collaborators: Global Affairs Canada
Conditions	Gestational Weight Gain, Diet, Food, and Nutrition, Undernutrition, Health Behavior
Enrollment	3,278 participants
Start Date	2022-04-01
Primary Completion	2024-12-31 (estimated)
Study Completion	2024-12-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2024-10-30