Adherence to home fortification with micronutrient powders in Kenyan pre-school children: Self-reporting and sachet counts compared to an electronic monitoring device

BMC Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Teshome, Emily M ^a,d   Oriaro, Veronica S ^b   Andango, Pauline E A ^b   Prentice, Andrew M ^a,d   Verhoef, Hans ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child; Food, fortified; Iron; Kenya; Patient compliance; Preschool; Self report

Indexed keywords

IRON; TRACE ELEMENT;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICES; FEMALE; FORTIFIED FOOD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KENYA; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; POWDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; KENYA; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POWDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT;

EID: 85041630737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5097-2     Document Type: Article

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