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The problem
Intervention: Theory of planned behavior-based nutrition education intervention (NEIPH) consisting of two 60-minute interactive sessions over one month, school-based monitoring, and educational booklets, using multimedia presentations, role-play, group discussions, and teach-back exercises
Who it was tested with: 200 adolescent girls (grades 7-9) with low serum ferritin levels (40.7-75.7 ng/mL) in rural Nepal (Annapurna Rural Municipality).
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"This two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluated the effectiveness of the Nutrition Education Intervention for Promoting Health (NEIPH) program for improving the nutritional status of adolescent girls in rural Nepal. Adolescent girls (200) with low serum ferritin levels (40.7-75.7 ng/mL), enrolled in grades 7-9 across 19 public schools in Annapurna Rural Municipality, were randomly assigned to either an intervention (103 girls from nine schools) or a control (97 girls from 10 schools) group." The randomized design with comparison group qualifies this as an experimental study, but the inconclusive outcome direction reflects that no results have been analyzed.
This is a protocol/design paper with no results reported. The study cannot yet demonstrate effectiveness, implementation fidelity, or whether behavioral changes were sustained. Outcome data are not available.
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