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The problem
Intervention: Holt International's Child Nutrition Program, a structured nutrition intervention with nutrition rehabilitation, feeding assessment, and routine health monitoring
Who it was tested with: 13,370 vulnerable children aged 0–18 years across eight low- and middle-income countries; longitudinal subset of 1,452 children with one-year follow-up.
The same group is measured before the intervention and again afterwards, with a baseline and an endline and sometimes a midline. Change is visible, but other causes cannot be ruled out.
"A longitudinal subset (n = 1,452) was used to assess associations between feeding difficulties and morbidity and changes in nutritional status, feeding difficulties, and morbidity after one year using McNemar tests." The study measures the same children before and after participation in the program to examine changes over time, making it a pre-post design without a concurrent comparison group.
No comparison or control group to isolate program effects from other factors; retrospective design with potential missing or incomplete data; specific intervention components not detailed; no information on dropout or loss to follow-up rates.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 8 countries
