Malnutrition; Moderate

Nutritional formulations prepared from locally available food stuffs for reversing childhood malnutrition

Standardized milk-based formulation

Primary Health Centre, Okpoediuse

Primary Health Centre, Adadiah

Primary Health centre, Mbak-Etoi

Effectiveness, Tolerability and Safety of Three Formulations in Underfives With Moderate Acute Malnutrition

Effectiveness, Tolerability and Safety of Standardized Milk-based, Standardized Non-milk Based and Hospital-based Formulations in the Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition in Underfive Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Improvement in weight-for-height at two weekly intervals

Proportion of children whose weight-for-height z score improved from <-2 to ≥ 2

The number of children that develop and undesirable gastrointestinal or extraintestinal disorder

Individual patient data will be made available to other researchers by the Principal Investigator on request.

Dr. Ekong E. Udoh

DOCTOR

The study participants will be randomized into three different intervention groups. Based on the group of assignment, the participants will receive either the standardized milk-based formulation, the standardized non-milk based formulation or the hospital-based formulation.

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Effectiveness, Tolerability and Safety of Three Formulations in Underfives With Moderate Acute Malnutrition

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