Developing Low-Cost Universal Malnutrition Screening for Low Income Countries - the MAMMS Trial

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · May 25, 2019

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ClinConnect Summary

Acute malnutrition is a critical driver of pediatric mortality that must be addressed to achieve global child health targets. Provision of ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) and nutritional counselling in the community is a highly effective method of preventing deaths among malnourished children. However, UNICEF estimates that only 17% of malnourished children receive treatment. Among children who are treated, the diagnosis of acute malnutrition is often made late in their disease when the risk of complications and death increases from 2.5% to 16%. Increasing the coverage and frequency o...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Infant is 6-12 months of age and MUAC of 12.5-14.0 cm
• • Access to a mobile phone and can provide a mobile phone number
• • Planning to remain in the catchment area more than 6 months and willing to return for 6-month follow up visit
• • Mother is willing to be randomized to weekly SMS and measure and send weekly infant MUAC via SMS
• • Able to read or write or has someone to help them read or write
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Infant is currently on treatment for malnutrition
• • Inability to provide a mobile phone number
• • Mothers that could not read or write and did not have someone to help them read or write