Development of a cross-over randomized trial method to determine the acceptability and safety of novel ready-to-use therapeutic foods

Nutrition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-112

  Dibari, Filippo ^a,b   Bahwere, Paluku ^a   Huerga, Helena ^c   Irena, Abel Hailu ^a   Owino, Victor ^d   Collins, Steve ^a,d   Seal, Andrew ^b  

^a VALID INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MSF France/Kenya   (Kenya)

^d Bantry General Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Crossover; Preference; Randomized trial; Ready to use therapeutic food; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BUTTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SAFETY; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAIZE; MALE; MARRIAGE; NAUSEA; NUT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PASTE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PEANUT; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SORGHUM; SOYBEAN; STOMACH PAIN; SWEETNESS; TASTE PREFERENCE; THERAPY EFFECT; TUBERCULOSIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SAFETY; HIV WASTING SYNDROME; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MILK; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SORGHUM; SOYBEANS; WASTING SYNDROME; ZEA MAYS;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

EID: 84870787350     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: 18731244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2012.04.016     Document Type: Article

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