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The problem
Intervention: School-based feeding programs
Who it was tested with: Children aged 10–14 years in primary schools in Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia (326 children: 163 from schools with feeding programs, 163 from schools without).
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 comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among 326 schoolchildren aged 10–14 years, with 163 recruited from schools implementing a feeding program and 163 from schools without a feeding program." This compares two groups at one point in time, measuring acute malnutrition prevalence in each, showing that those with access to school feeding had lower rates of acute malnutrition, though causation cannot be confirmed without longitudinal or experimental data.
Cross-sectional design cannot establish causation. The study compares children from different schools rather than the same children before and after program implementation. Unmeasured confounding factors between school types may account for differences. Implementation quality and adherence to feeding programs not assessed.
Across countries and designs
7 studies · 7 countries
