Participatory women's groups and counselling through home visits to improve child growth in rural eastern India: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Nair, Nirmala ^a   Tripathy, Prasanta ^a   Sachdev, Harshpal S ^b   Bhattacharyya, Sanghita ^c   Gope, Rajkumar ^a   Gagrai, Sumitra ^a   Rath, Shibanand ^a   Rath, Suchitra ^a   Sinha, Rajesh ^a   Roy, Swati Sarbani ^a   Shewale, Suhas ^a   Singh, Vijay ^a   Srivastava, Aradhana ^c   Pradhan, Hemanta ^a   Costello, Anthony ^d   Copas, Andrew ^d   Skordis Worrall, Jolene ^d   Haghparast Bidgoli, Hassan ^d   Saville, Naomi ^d   Prost, Audrey ^d  

^a Ekjut   (India)

^b SITARAM BHARTIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child; India; Nutrition; Public health; Stunting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HOME VISIT; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; MOTHERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84928559092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1655-z     Document Type: Article

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