Directly Observed Iron Supplementation to Treat Anemia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

India continues to be one of the countries with very high prevalence of anemia. In fact, National Family Health Survey-3 (NFHS-3,2005-06) revealed increasing prevalence of anemia in women and children, since NFHS-2 in 1998-99. In the backdrop of this alarming trend, the aim of this trial is to assess the effectiveness of a community based anemia management intervention ( curative and holistic) delivered to rural anemia women and girls(aged 13 years and above)in remote hilly villages (unit of randomization) in terms of change in anemia prevalence (unit of analysis) after 3 months of iron supplementation. This trial with a therapeutic component of "Directly Observed Home Based daily Iron Therapy (DOHBIT)" by local village volunteers is conceived as a whole community approach to improve the hemoglobin status of affected patients in remote villages.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Build Healthy India Movement
• Collaborator: Ministry of Science and Technology, India
• Treatments: Iron

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women and adolescent girls aged 13 years and above who are diagnosed with anemia using WHO defined cut-offs for hemoglobin levels

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any active medical disease ( acute or chronic)other than anemia, any subject already on iron supplementation for >4 weeks, any subject with significant mental impairment, recent history of Gastrointestinal bleed