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Education Sessions - 12 Percentage Point Effect on Dietary Diversity

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Strategy researched
 
Trained volunteers facilitating nutrition education sessions in their home villages among group of caregivers with children 5-18 months of age
 
Impact achieved
 
This is a translation from the academic - see Line 22 at this link
 
Country of study
 
Malawi
 
Research methodology
 
Cluster RCT with 1,791 households
 
Journal
 
PLOS ONE; 2017
 
Journal paper title and link
 
Nutrition education improves dietary diversity of children 6-23 months at community-level: Results from a cluster randomized controlled trial in Malawi
 
Excerpt from Abstract
 
"A positive impact on child dietary diversity was observed (B (SE) = 0.39 (0.15), p = 0.01; 95%CI 0.09–0.68). There was a non-significant positive intervention effect on mean height-for-age z-scores (B (SE) = 0.17 (0.12), p = 0.15; 95%CI -0.06–0.41).