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2024-05-06 @ 8:28 PM
Last Modification Date:
2024-10-26 @ 3:28 PM
Study NCT ID:
NCT06397989
Status:
ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Last Update Posted:
2024-06-24
First Post:
2024-04-30
Brief Title:
Peanut-based School Meals in Rural Ghana to Improve Attendance and Retention
Sponsor:
Washington University School of Medicine
Organization:
Washington University School of Medicine
Study Overview
Official Title:
Peanut-based School Meals in Rural Ghana to Improve Attendance and Retention
Status:
ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Status Verified Date:
2024-06
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
PEANUT-SMART
Brief Summary:
The goal of this clinical trial is to test daily provision of peanut paste-based milk-containing ready-to-use school food PM-RUF in children 5-17 years of age in Ghana The main question it aims to answer is
- Will provision of PM-RUF as a daily school meal improve attendance improve matriculation andor reduce dropouts among Ghanaian schoolchildren 5-17 years of age in Mion District as compared with provision of a common local flour made of ricemillet
- Will provision of PM-RUF as a daily school meal improve attendance improve matriculation andor reduce dropouts among Ghanaian schoolchildren 5-17 years of age in Mion District as compared with provision of a common local flour made of ricemillet
Detailed Description:
School feeding programs offer an opportunity to advance individual and community health and well-being especially in contexts of poverty and limited diet quality When compared with no school feeding school feeding has been shown to improve attendance reduce dropouts and strengthen household food security
In many low- and middle-income countries LMICs a model called Home-Grown School Feeding HGSF has been employed in an effort to increase the coverage of school feeding programs This model involves local growing procurement and cooking of school meals thereby aiming to boost local economies and improve sustainability A potential drawback of this approach is the nutritive quality of the school meals which will depend on what is typically grown and procured in the program In areas of higher food insecurity such a program may largely provide the foods to which children already have access rather than nutrients their diets may be missing Additional concerns include costs related to decentralized procurement and cooking as well as food safety which is more challenging to monitor in such a program
Peanut paste-based school meals might offer benefits as an alternative Local production is possible as is done for ready-to-use supplementary and therapeutic foods Local ingredient sourcing could offer similar economic and sustainability advantages Peanut pastes are food safe with long storage capabilities They also provide a matrix into which varied ingredients can be added while maintaining organoleptic acceptability to children Finally in regions where current government-run HGSF programs suffer from inadequate funds and instability local production and distribution of RUFs ready to use foods might improve reliability and impact school attendance dropouts and matriculation
This study is a cluster-randomized controlled investigator-blinded superiority trial Schools will be randomized to receive PM-RUF or local ricemillet flour for porridge PM-RUF will contain peanut palm oil sugar fat-free milk powder and 05-1 RDA recommended dietary allowances of 14 micronutrients Attendance will be tracked with the use of fingerprint biometric scanning each day
In many low- and middle-income countries LMICs a model called Home-Grown School Feeding HGSF has been employed in an effort to increase the coverage of school feeding programs This model involves local growing procurement and cooking of school meals thereby aiming to boost local economies and improve sustainability A potential drawback of this approach is the nutritive quality of the school meals which will depend on what is typically grown and procured in the program In areas of higher food insecurity such a program may largely provide the foods to which children already have access rather than nutrients their diets may be missing Additional concerns include costs related to decentralized procurement and cooking as well as food safety which is more challenging to monitor in such a program
Peanut paste-based school meals might offer benefits as an alternative Local production is possible as is done for ready-to-use supplementary and therapeutic foods Local ingredient sourcing could offer similar economic and sustainability advantages Peanut pastes are food safe with long storage capabilities They also provide a matrix into which varied ingredients can be added while maintaining organoleptic acceptability to children Finally in regions where current government-run HGSF programs suffer from inadequate funds and instability local production and distribution of RUFs ready to use foods might improve reliability and impact school attendance dropouts and matriculation
This study is a cluster-randomized controlled investigator-blinded superiority trial Schools will be randomized to receive PM-RUF or local ricemillet flour for porridge PM-RUF will contain peanut palm oil sugar fat-free milk powder and 05-1 RDA recommended dietary allowances of 14 micronutrients Attendance will be tracked with the use of fingerprint biometric scanning each day
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
False
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:
None