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. 2015 Mar 5;2015(3):CD009924. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009924.pub2

Iannotti 2014.

Methods Study date: 2014. Study Design: RCT
Participants SES or context: Urban slums of Haiti
Nutritional status: The average WAZ ranged from ‐0.70 ‐0.85
Age: 6 ‐ 11 months at start of study
Sex: Both. Slightly more girls than boys in all groups
Number: 589 recruited to 3 groups (after 6 months follow‐up there were: control = 144, intervention = 150, other treatment = 126)
Interventions Intervention: Feeding + 2 intervention groups: 3 month Lipid nutrient supplement, 6 month LIpid Nutritent supplement. Home‐delivered; 1 sachet per day. Parents asked to feed children
Energy: On average, the daily supplements provided 108 kcal and 23% of protein
Duration: 6 month% DRI for energy: 15%
% DRI for protein: 23%
Control: No supplement
Provider: Researchers with funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Inter‐American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the United Nations World Food Program
Supervised: Once monthly
Compliance: 98% of mothers reported that the children ate all of the supplement
Outcomes Physical: LAZ, WAZ, WHZ
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Says infants were randomly assigned. Drawn from container
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Sealed paper forms were drawn from a container
Baseline outcome measurements Low risk WAZ, HAZ, WHZ not significantly different
Baseline characteristics Unclear risk Not applicable
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Approximately the same proportion missing in each group and reasons unlikely to be related to outcome (most moved to country)
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Not mentioned
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Not mentioned
Protection from contamination Unclear risk Not applicable
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk No access to protocol