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Social Franchising And A Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Increased The Prevalence Of Adequate Complementary Feeding In Vietnam: A Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation, Rahul Rawat, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Lan Mai Tran, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Huan Van Nguyen, Jean Baker, Edward A. Frongillo Jr., Marie T. Ruel, Purnima Menon
Social Franchising And A Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Increased The Prevalence Of Adequate Complementary Feeding In Vietnam: A Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation, Rahul Rawat, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Lan Mai Tran, Nemat Hajeebhoy, Huan Van Nguyen, Jean Baker, Edward A. Frongillo Jr., Marie T. Ruel, Purnima Menon
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Rigorous evaluations of health system-based interventions in large-scale programs to improve complementary feeding (CF) practices are limited. Alive & Thrive applied principles of social franchising within the government health system in Vietnam to improve the quality of interpersonal counseling (IPC) for infant and young child feeding combined with a national mass media (MM) campaign and community mobilization (CM). We evaluated the impact of enhanced IPC + MM + CM (intensive) compared with standard IPC + less-intensive MM and CM (nonintensive) on CF practices and anthropometric indicators. A cluster-randomized, nonblinded evaluation design with cross-sectional surveys ( = ∼500 children aged 6-23.9 …
Changes In Underlying Determinants Explain Rapid Increases In Child Linear Growth In Alive & Thrive Study Areas Between 2010 And 2014 In Bangladesh And Vietnam, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Derek Headey, Edward A. Frongillo Jr., Lan Mai Tran, Rahul Rawat, Marie T. Ruel, Purnima Menon
Changes In Underlying Determinants Explain Rapid Increases In Child Linear Growth In Alive & Thrive Study Areas Between 2010 And 2014 In Bangladesh And Vietnam, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Derek Headey, Edward A. Frongillo Jr., Lan Mai Tran, Rahul Rawat, Marie T. Ruel, Purnima Menon
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Background: Child linear growth sometimes improves in both intervention and comparison groups in evaluations of nutrition interventions, possibly because of spillover intervention effects to nonintervention areas or improvements in underlying determinants of nutritional change in both areas.
Objective: We aimed to understand what changes in underlying socioeconomic characteristics and behavioral factors are important in explaining improvements in child linear growth.
Methods: Baseline (2010) and endline (2014) surveys from the Alive & Thrive impact evaluation were used to identify the underlying determinants of height-for-age z scores (HAZs) among children aged 24–48 mo in Bangladesh (n = 4311) and 24–59 mo …