Issues in the design of a clinical trial with a behavioral intervention - The Zambia exclusive breast-feeding study

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 353-365

  Thea, Donald M ^a   Vwalika, Cheswa ^b   Kasonde, Prisca ^c   Kankasa, Chipepo ^c   Sinkala, Moses ^c   Semrau, Katherine ^a   Shutes, Erin ^d   Ayash, Christine ^a   Tsai, Wei Yann ^e   Aldrovandi, Grace ^d   Kuhn, Louise ^f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Lusaka District Health Management Team   (Zambia)

^c University Teaching Hospital   (South Africa)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Mailman Sch Pub Hlth Columbia U ^*  (United States)

^f Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; HIV; HIV AIDS; Mother to child transmission; Perinatal HIV transmission

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERINATAL PERIOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEANING; ZAMBIA;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BREAST FEEDING; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZAMBIA;

EID: 3543038206     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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