Community Participation in Nutrition Interventions

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Elsevier,

Current Developments in Nutrition,
2022,
100001,
ISSN 2475-2991

This editorial to the collection examines the construct of participation, how it is defined, measured, and integrated into all stages of nutrition research projects and programs and how it influences intervention outcomes.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue 9, September 2022, nzac131

The authors of this paper offer a simple framework to stimulate thought and commitment to research on participation in community-based nutrition interventions and concludes that nutrition across various sectors and contexts is key to accomplishing SDG goal 2.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 May 2022
This paper's findings highlight various facilitators and barriers that need to be given special attention during the design and implementation phases of PDH (Positive Deviance/Hearth) and PDH-IVC (Positive Deviance/Hearth-Interactive Voice Calling program). The mental health, time, and resource constraints of elderly caregivers should also be addressed for a context like Cambodia when implementing child-focused health and nutrition programs.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue 9, September 2022, nzac121

Understanding the complexity in which Farmer-Based Organizations' (FBO) participation, empowerment, nutritional status, and food security are linked is critical in designing interventions that promote gender equality and improved nutrition.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 May 2022
The findings in this paper suggest that both supply- and demand-side solutions are needed to improve HMG (health mothers’ group) performance and uptake in Nepal. These solutions need to include improving FCHV (female community health volunteer) skills and motivating them to provide high-quality HMG services, as well as encouraging family members to support women so that they have time to participate in the HMGs.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue 9, September 2022, nzac124

Addressing poverty as a core aim of the intervention approach galvanized strong multisectoral buy-in across these projects, as poverty is a common challenge among the populations targeted by all rural institutions. Regular information sharing through workshops and other meetings provided opportunities for cross-sector interactions which resulted in mutual learning and an appreciation for multisectoral engagement.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 April 2022
This paper concludes that effective local implementation of MSN (Multisectoral Nutrition) policy requires country-level commitment together with local leadership and capacity building, and community engagement to ensure efforts fit program contexts.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 May 2022
Background: Over 85% of Kibera's population, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, is food insecure. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions, such as sack gardens, have the potential to diversify diets - in turn, improving household food security and diet quality. Furthermore, the sale of extra vegetables may provide an income for program participants. Objectives: The aim of this paper was to conduct a feasibility assessment and preliminary impact assessment of a nutrition-sensitive urban agriculture intervention that used sack gardens for women in Kibera.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue 9, September 2022, nzac127

This study demonstrates the importance of community-based approaches to understand how much MIYCN (Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition) training and counseling are intertwined, indicating the need for interventions to address both using a multipronged approach that addresses barriers across all levels of the socioecological model, taking the local context into account.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue 6, June 2022, nzac090

This paper concludes that the LC (Learning Circle) approach is an inclusive and respectful way of engaging community and promoting local and traditional foods, knowledge, and practices among Indigenous youth in rural and remote locations.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 April 2022

This study compares GM (Growth Monitoring) manuals from Tanzania, India and The Netherlands with each other, and with the materials for the WHO’s training course on child growth assessment.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 April 2022
Background: Community participation has the potential to improve the effects of interventions and reduce inequalities in child growth. Multidimensional indicators capture such effects and inequalities. Objectives: The objective of this study was to measure the association between multidimensional child growth and community participation in 2 nutrition-sensitive interventions. Methods: A Multidimensional Index of Child Growth was calculated with the 5-y-old cohort of the Vietnam Young Lives Survey.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 June 2022
The authors of this paper found limited impacts of a 3 year nutrition BCC (Behavior Change Communication) intervention through agriculture-focused SHGs (Self-Help Groups) on nutrition outcomes and on intermediate pathway indicators expected to lead to those outcomes. Despite these limited impacts, much can be learned from the studied effort to improve women’s nutrition through SHGs.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 May 2022
This study demonstrates that a multipronged SBCC (social and Behavior Change Communication) intervention can modify mothers’ complementary feeding practices, improve fathers’ and mothers’ knowledge of complementary feeding, and increase fathers’ support for complementary feeding, despite low levels of participant-reported exposure to some intervention components.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 March 2022
The objective of this study was to determine the association between mothers’ level of participation in the NL (Nutrition Links) project and their children’s dietary and anthropometric outcomes.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 5, Issue 8, August 2021, nzab096

The results from this study emphasize the role of targeted and integrated nutrition education approaches in improving OFSP (Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato) consumption behavior; therefore, it is imperative to focus on increasing the rate of consumption of OFSP over time to ensure sustainable utilization of essential micronutrients.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 5, 1 December 2021
This study explores the pathways from a nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention to improved diets of women and young children. It also tests theoretical agriculture-to-nutrition pathways by comparing the authors' documented pathways with the pathways from the widely used TANDI (Tackling the Agriculture–Nutrition Disconnect in India) framework.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 5, 1 August 2021
Background: Children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) who require nutritional rehabilitation unit (NRU) treatment often have poor developmental and nutritional outcomes following discharge. The Kusamala Program is a 4-d hospital-based counseling program for caregivers of children with SAM that integrates nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene and psychosocial stimulation, aimed at improving these outcomes. Objectives: The aim was to evaluate the effects of the Kusamala Program on child development and nutritional status in children with SAM 6 mo after NRU discharge.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, 1 August 2022

This article contributes to the debate around the use of participatory approaches by giving a tool (cameras) to the most marginalized to revitalize traditional foods (mostly nonmarket and even noncultivated) as a response to food insecurity and possibly malnutrition.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue 8, August 2022, nzac103

This study presents evidence that PV (Participatory Video) nutrition education promotes a transformative change and is the first study to evaluate: 1) the influence of a PV nutrition education intervention on adolescent participants’ critical nutrition literacy and behavior, and 2) the perceived impact of the intervention on participants and local stakeholders. It is also the first study of a PV nutrition intervention with adolescent creators.
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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue 10, October 2022, nzac145

This study assesed how participation in an NSA (Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture) intervention affected mothers' time allocation to child care. The observation of women-child pairs participating in the intervention and control arms of the NL (Nutrition Links) project did not reveal any differentials in the mothers’ time for care. In summary, this study found that participating in an NSA intervention was not associated with mothers' time for child care or any care received by the child. However, the odds of care provided by another person was associated with being part of the NL-I (Nutrition Links Intervention) group.
Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 5, 1 September 2021
This study demonstrates that systems science provides positive implementation approaches to design and translates nutrition behaviors and knowledge into practice.