An evaluation of nutrition centre effectiveness by measurement of younger siblings.
Thirty children were measured when they entered nutrition centres. Their younger siblings were later measured at the same age. Over the same period, a matched group of control children and their siblings were measured. The younger siblings of Centre participants showed the same growth patterns as the younger siblings of control children. Centre teaching had evidently not affected the way mothers fed their younger children, and thus it had no effect on their growth.
D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D003151:Community Health Centers; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007228:Infant Nutrition Disorders / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D012801:Sibling Relations