Open Access#12015
Participatory women's groups and counseling through home visits to improve child growth in rural eastern India: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
In: BMC Public Health , 15 , Article 384. (2015)
Background: Childhood stunting (low height-for-age) is a marker of chronic undernutrition and predicts children's subsequent physical and cognitive development. An estimated 52 million children in India are stunted. There is a broad consensus on determinants of child undernutrition and interventions to address it, but a lack of operational research testing strategies to increase the coverage of these interventions in high burden areas. Our study aims to assess the impact, costeffectiveness, and scalability of a community intervention involving a government-proposed community-based worker to improve growth in children under two.