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The problem
Intervention: Alternative therapeutic food formulas with reduced dosages or alternative ingredients compared to standard therapeutic foods
Who it was tested with: Children aged 6-59 months with severe acute malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.
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 review includes 13 randomized controlled trials testing alternatives to the standard therapeutic foods used to treat SAM by using alternative ingredients or a reduced dosage." The design uses RCTs as the evidence base, which represent the highest tier of experimental evidence, though the review itself is narrative in synthesis method.
The review is narrative rather than systematic, making it difficult to synthesize findings across studies. Individual trial quality and sample sizes are not detailed. The review does not provide specific recovery rate percentages or effect sizes for the alternatives tested.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 11 countries
