Table 10.
Impact on morbidity outcomes of interventions in which provision of complementary food was the only treatment
| Author | Site | Target group | Study group | n | % diarrhoea | % URI | % LRI | % fever | Inc. of diarrhoea | Inc. of URI | Inc. of LRI | Inc. of fever |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Efficacy trials | ||||||||||||
| Adu‐Afarwuah et al. (2007)* | Ghana | 6 months | Fortified spread | 98 | 6.2 | 2.1 | 3.1 | |||||
| No intervention | 96 | 7.1 | 5.7 | 5.7 | ||||||||
| Diff: −0.9 PP | Diff: −3.6 PP | Diff: −2.6 PP | ||||||||||
Diff, difference; Inc., incidence; LRI, lower respiratory infection; PP, percentage point; URI, upper respiratory infection. *Values are percentages of children with illness.