Integrating nutrition and early child-development interventions among infants and preschoolers in rural India. Fernandez-Rao S, Hurley KM, Nair KM, Balakrishna N, Radhakrishna K V, Black MM, et al.Effect of integrated responsive stimulation and nutrition interventions in the Lady Health Worker programme in Pakistan on child development, growth, and health outcomes: a cluster-randomised factorial effectiveness trial. Yousafzai AK, Rasheed MA, Rizvi A, Armstrong R, Qar Z, Bhutta A.Proposed global targets for maternal, infant and young child nutrition. World Health Organization infant and young child feeding indicators and their associations with child anthropometry: a synthesis of recent findings. Jones AD, Ickes SB, Smith LE, Mbuya MNN, Chasekwa B, Heidkamp RA, et al.
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. Black RE, Victora CG, Walker SP, Bhutta ZA, Christian P, De Onis M, et al.The double burden of malnutrition in Indonesia. Meanwhile, development impairment score decreased from 1.32☐.75 to 0.42☐.61 significantly (p=0.00).Ĭonclusion: Intervention package containing nutrition and development education, development stimulation and supplementary food through community feeding center (CFC) sucessfully increased body weight and development of wasted children significantly. Results: Children in intervention groups gained their weight significantly from before (9.17☑.89) and after (9.27☑.79) intervention (p=0.04). Analysis used were Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed Rank tests at the level of significance 0,05. Interventions given were education, development stimulation and food supplementation package distributed by the community health workers whom were given capacity building. Sampels were selected by using total sampling of children under-five in community feeding center, meanwhile controls were children under-five selected from integrated health posts in another villages with the ratio of 1:1. Subjects were 38 children under-five resided in Sedayu Subdistrict. Method: Design used in this study was quasi-experimental with pre- and post-test control group. Objective: This study aimed to examine the effect of integration of nutrition intervention and development stimulation on weight gain and development of wasted children. On the other hand, malnutrition in children may affect the development both in early childhood and the quality of human capital in later life. Background: Indonesia has faced the problem where double burden malnutrition increasing.