Effect of participatory women's groups and counselling through home visits on children's linear growth in rural eastern India (CARING trial): a cluster-randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2017, Pages e1004-e1016

  Nair, Nirmala ^a   Tripathy, Prasanta ^a   Sachdev, H S ^b   Pradhan, Hemanta ^a   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   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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INDIA; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; HOME VISIT; INFANT NUTRITION; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 85031277141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30339-X     Document Type: Article

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