Effect of participatory women's groups and counselling through home visits on children's linear growth in rural eastern India (CARING trial): a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Background: Around 30% of the world's stunted children live in India. The Government of India has proposed a new cadre of community-based workers to improve nutrition in 200 districts. We aimed to find out the effect of such a worker carrying out home visits and participatory group meetings on...

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Main Authors: Nirmala Nair, MBBS, Prasanta Tripathy, MSc, H S Sachdev, FRCPCH, Hemanta Pradhan, MDS, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, PhD, Rajkumar Gope, PGDRD, Sumitra Gagrai, BA, Shibanand Rath, MA, Suchitra Rath, MA, Rajesh Sinha, PhD, Swati Sarbani Roy, MSc, Suhas Shewale, MSc, Vijay Singh, BA, Aradhana Srivastava, PhD, Anthony Costello, FRCP, Andrew Copas, PhD, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, PhD, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, PhD, Naomi Saville, PhD, Dr Audrey Prost, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-10-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X1730339X