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The problem
Intervention: No intervention was tested; this is an observational study examining the association between categories of anthropometric failures and early child development outcomes
Who it was tested with: 98,189 children aged 36-59 months across 34 low- and middle-income countries.
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.
"We used multivariable linear regression models to estimate the association between CAF and ECDI z-scores." This is an observational study measuring association between existing anthropometric patterns and development outcomes, not an intervention trial, making it descriptive rather than evaluative of any specific programmatic action.
Cross-sectional design cannot establish causation. No intervention was evaluated, so this is observational evidence only. Country-specific differences and confounding factors may not be fully controlled. The direction and magnitude of findings are consistent but this is not intervention evaluation evidence.
Across countries and designs
18 studies · 28 countries
