The impact of training for day-care educators on childhood anaemia in nurseries: an institutional randomised clinical trial

Objective To test the impact of training for educators on the health of children enrolled in public and philanthropic day-care nurseries. Design A randomised, institutional, non-blind clinical trial was conducted. An educational intervention was performed in four day-care centres and the control gro...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Public health nutrition 2011-08, Vol.14 (8), p.1450-1457
Hauptverfasser:	Konstantyner, Tulio, Taddei, José Augusto AC, Oliveira, Mariana de Novaes, Palma, Domingos, Colugnati, Fernando AB
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age anemia Anemia - blood Anemia - epidemiology Anemia - prevention & control anthropometric measurements Antibiotics blood Brazil - epidemiology Capacity building Child Day Care Centers Child Nutrition Sciences - education Child, Preschool childhood children Children & youth Core curriculum Data collection Developing countries Female Health Education - methods Health Status household income Humans Infant Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena interviews Interviews as Topic Iron - blood LDCs Logistic Models Low income groups Male Medical research Mothers Nutrition professionals randomized clinical trials regression analysis risk Risk Factors Schools Schools, Nursery siblings teachers Training
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Zusammenfassung:	Objective To test the impact of training for educators on the health of children enrolled in public and philanthropic day-care nurseries. Design A randomised, institutional, non-blind clinical trial was conducted. An educational intervention was performed in four day-care centres and the control group consisted of four other day-care centres. Interviews with the mothers, collection of blood from the children by digital puncture and anthropometry were performed. The chosen indicator for the improvement of health was anaemia (Hb
ISSN:	1368-9800 1475-2727 1475-2727
DOI:	10.1017/S1368980010001977