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The problem
Intervention: Improving maternal nutritional status during pregnancy, infant feeding practices, and household food security
Who it was tested with: 150 mother-child pairs from two hospitals in Peshawar, Pakistan; children aged 24-59 months.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"A total of 150 mother-child pairs were enrolled, with data collected on maternal nutrition, birth outcomes, and child growth at 24–59 months. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify predictors of stunting." This is a retrospective observational design that measures associations between pre-existing maternal and household characteristics and child stunting outcomes, but without testing an actual intervention or following groups before and after a treatment, the evidence tier is limited to identifying correlates rather than demonstrating intervention effectiveness.
This is an observational study without a comparison or control group, limiting causal inference. It does not evaluate an implemented intervention but rather identifies risk factors; therefore it cannot demonstrate whether interventions addressing these factors actually reduce stunting.
Across countries and designs
3 studies · 2 countries
