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. 2023 Feb 11;23:107. doi: 10.1186/s12884-023-05366-2

Table 1.

Summary information for each randomized controlled trial or effectiveness study in the Maternal BEP Studies Harmonization Initiative

Full study name Short name Country Study design Life stages receiving BEP Enrollment @ life stage Registry Principal Investigators
Enhancing Nutrition and Antenatal Infection Treatment for Maternal and Child Health ENAT Ethiopia Cluster (health center) and individual (within health center) randomizationa Pregnancy ~ 2400 @ < 24 weeks gestation

ISRCTN registry

ISRCTN15116516

Anne CC Lee;

Yemane Berhane

IMPRINTb IMPRINT India Individual randomization Lactation 816 @  < 1 week after delivery Clinical Trials Registry-India CTRI/2018/04/013095 Sunita Taneja
Mothers and Infants Nutrition Trial MINT Nepal Individual randomization Pregnancy 900 @ early pregnancy ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03668977 James Tielsch
MIcronutriments pour la SAnté de la Mère et de l’Enfant III MISAME-III Burkina Faso Individual randomization with factorial designc

Pregnancy

Lactation

1788 @ early pregnancy ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03533712 Patrick Kolsteren
Mumta Pregnant Women Trial MumtaPW Pakistan Individual randomization Pregnancy 1836 @ pregnancy ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04012177 Yasir Shafiq; Ameer Muhammad
Mumta Lactating Women Trial MumtaLW Pakistan Individual randomization Lactation 957 @  < 1 week after delivery ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03564652 Yasir Shafiq; Ameer Muhammad
Women and Infants Integrated Interventions for Growth Study WINGS India Individual randomization with factorial designc

Preconception

Pregnancy

Lactation

13,500 @ preconception

Clinical Trials Registry-India

CTRI/2017/06/008908

Nita Bhandari

BEP balanced energy-protein

aPragmatic clinical effectiveness study

bAdded to Harmonization Initiative in October 2020

cFactorial design for MISAME-III was random assignment for pregnancy and random assignment for postpartum; factorial design for WINGS was random assignment for preconception and random assignment for pregnancy (women were also stratified by height at enrollment)