Nutrition Intervention to Address Anemia Among Adolescent Girls in Liberia

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of weekly iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation and one-time deworming treatment at the community level in improving hemoglobin levels among adolescent girls in Liberia, West Africa, and to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a targeted nutrition education program in improving nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices in the same population.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
• Collaborators: Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services; Ministry of Health, Liberia; UNICEF
• Treatments: DMP 777; Folic Acid; Mebendazole; Piperazine; Piperazine citrate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent girl aged 10 - 19 years at the time of enrollment

• Lives within the selected study communities in Montserrado or Margibi counties

• Caregiver/adolescent consents to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Currently pregnant

• Active malaria infection as defined by positive rapid diagnostic test (RDT)

• Severe acute malnutrition at the time of enrollment

• Known malignancy

• Known sickle cell disease