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. 2020 Jul 28;2020(7):CD011504. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011504.pub2

Wendt 2019.

Study name Food and agricultural approaches to reducing malnutrition (FAARM): protocol for a cluster‐randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a Homestead Food Production programme on undernutrition in rural Bangladesh
Methods Cluster RCT
Participants Married women and their children (aged 0–3 years) in 96 rural settlements of Habiganj district in Sylhet division, Bangladesh.
Interventions Homestead Food Production (HFP) programme implemented by Helen Keller International on women's and children's undernutrition: training of women's groups and asset distribution to support year‐round home gardening, poultry rearing, and improved nutrition and hygiene practices
Outcomes Primary outcome
  • Children's length/height‐for‐age z‐scores


Secondary outcomes
  • Women's and children's micronutrient status, dietary intake, dietary diversity and other indicators of child growth, development and morbidity

Starting date 14 March 2015
Contact information Sabine Gabrysch, Head, Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
Notes  

BISP: Benazir Income Support Programme; HbA1c: glycated haemoglobin; IYCF: Infant and Young Child Feeding; LHW: Lady Health Worker; MUAC: mid‐upper arm circumference; CT‐OVC: cash transfer for orphans and vulnerable children; RCT: randomised controlled trial; SBCC: social and behaviour change communication; SNF: Dietary supplement; WASH: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene; WFP: World Food Program.