Clinical trials: Infant Nutrition Disorders
Vitamin D Deficiency
Vitamin D and Its Affect on Growth Rates and Bone Mineral Density Until Age 5
Abstract Background: Vitamin D affects a wide variety of functions in the body including regulation of calcium, phosphorus, and bone metabolism.
- Trial name
- VitD (NCT01419821)
- Testing
- Vitamin D
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Meir Medical Center
Infant Behavior, Feeding Behavior
Supporting Baby Behavior Through Pediatric Offices
The primary objective of this project is to evaluate the impact on infant growth and infant-feeding practices of a low-cost series of video trainings and tools targeted to medical staff and designed to support ongoing Baby…
- Conditions
- Infant Behavior, Feeding Behavior, Breastfeeding, Pediatric Obesity
- Trial name
- NCT02438878
- Testing
- Baby Behavior
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 423 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Davis
Weight Gain, Anemia, Iron Deficiency
Egg Intervention During Pregnancy in Indonesia
The study consists of two arms: 1) intervention group using eggs as supplementary food given from 2nd trimester of pregnancy to birth, and 2) observational group of pregnant mothers.
- Conditions
- Weight Gain, Anemia, Iron Deficiency, Birth Weight, Birth Length
- Trial name
- PRECODE (NCT04694235)
- Testing
- Egg intervention
- Where
- Indonesia
- Volunteers
- 702 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- SEAMEO Regional Centre for Food and Nutrition
Infant Nutrition Disorders, Gastrointestinal Dysfunction
Management of Infant Digestive Disorders and Quality of Life
The objective of the study is to measure the evolution of the quality of life in infants between 0 and 5 months old, not breastfed and suffering from regurgitation or colic.
- Trial name
- NCT04462640
- Testing
- Management of Infant Digestive Disorders and Quality of Life
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 101 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Société des Produits Nestlé (SPN)
Malnutrition, Infant, Malnutrition, Child
Efficacy of Mobile Health Application in Promotion of Exclusive Breast Feeding and Young Child Feeding Practices in Pakistan
Early life nutrition is the key modifiable determinant of child growth, development, survival and diseases of adult onset. Pakistan ranks highest for neonatal mortality rate (44.2/1000 live births (LBs)) globally.
- Trial name
- NCT05590351
- Testing
- First diet: m-health coaching application, Face to Face counselling
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aga Khan University
Infant Overweight, Infant Obesity
Project Sueño: Sleep & Understanding Early Nutrition in Obesity
The purpose of the study is to understand how mothers think and feel about feeding their babies and putting them to sleep, understand more about programs that can support mothers taking care of babies, and how professionals can…
- Conditions
- Infant Overweight, Infant Obesity, Infant Overnutrition, Infant Development
- Trial name
- NCT06117631
- Testing
- Centering Parenting, Bright by Text
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 256 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin
Pre-Term, Breast Milk Expression
Preemie Milk Analyser Validation Study
This study aims to test and validate the Preemie Ecosystem- a new device and associated software package for measuring the nutrient (fat, protein and carbohydrate) content of the breast milk of the mothers of premature babies.
- Conditions
- Pre-Term, Breast Milk Expression, Nutrition Disorder, Infant
- Trial name
- NCT06486194
- Testing
- Targeted breast milk fortification using preemie device, Standard Breast milk fortification
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Malnutrition
Acceptability of LNS for Infants and Young Children in Guatemala
This study aims to assess the acceptability of lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) for use as nutritional supplements for infants and young children in Guatemala. The study was conducted in three phases.
- Trial name
- NCT01148641
- Testing
- LNS
- Where
- Guatemala
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Davis
Congenital Heart Defects, Underweight
Nutrition In Preoperative Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease
Introduction: The use of a nutritional protocols provides the standardization of assessment procedures and the optimization of nutritional status recovery of pre-surgical infants with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD).
- Trial name
- NCT05457712
- Testing
- protocol, Control
- Volunteers
- 118 people
- Sponsor
- Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
Postnatal Growth Disorder
Target Fortification of Breast Milk: How Often Breast Milk Needs to be Measured?
It has been observed that target fortification on different schedules leads to meal to meal variation. It changes the ratio of protein to energy and the percentage of carbohydrate to non-protein energy which may, affect growth.
- Trial name
- TFO2 (NCT02865941)
- Testing
- Fortification with modular protein, Fortification with modular carbohydrate, Fortification with modular fat
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 56 people
- Sponsor
- McMaster Children's Hospital
Infant,Premature, Body Weight
Serial Assessment of Body Fat Accrual in Very Preterm Infants
Despite evidence that both rapid weight gain and excessive body fat accrual are associated with overweight and obesity, usual neonatal care of preterm infants does not include assessment of body fat accrual.
- Conditions
- Infant,Premature, Body Weight, Adiposity
- Trial name
- NCT03575897
- Testing
- Assessment of infant body composition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency (EFAD)
Pediatric Study to Evaluate Risk of Developing Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency When Receiving Clinolipid or Standard-of-Care Lipid Emulsion
This will be a descriptive study designed to evaluate the propensity for hospitalized pediatric patients treated adequately with Clinolipid or standard of care for up to 90 days to develop Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency (EFAD).
- Trial name
- NCT02476994
- Testing
- Clinolipid, Intralipid
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1 people
- Sponsor
- Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Low Birth Weight
Probiotics-Supplemented Feeding in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants
The overall purpose of this research is to test whether adding a supplement to the feeding of extremely low birth weight infant (infants weighing less than 2 pound 2 oz at birth) will help him/her achieve full feeding faster and…
- Trial name
- PAS (NCT01164124)
- Testing
- Probiotic supplementation (Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Bifidobacterium infantis)
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 101 people
- Sponsor
- Vermont Oxford Network
Contraception, Fetal Growth Retardation
Obesity and Oral Contraceptive Failure
Contraceptive failure is the primary cause of unintended pregnancy in the United States. With obesity rates at epidemic proportions, any association between obesity and strategies that prevent undesired pregnancies constitutes a…
- Conditions
- Contraception, Fetal Growth Retardation, Infant, Small for Gestational Age, Obesity
- Trial name
- NCT01944306
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 26 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon Health and Science University
Malnutrition, Child, Malnutrition, Infant
Assessing the Effect of Sustainable Small-scale Egg Production on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Rural Zambia
Animal source foods (ASF), such as meat and eggs, are rich in nutrients critical for growth and development. Yet, for poor children in developing countries, ASF consumption is limited by cost, inadequate caregiver knowledge, and…
- Trial name
- NCT02516852
- Testing
- Egg production
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 3,546 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Cornell University
Malnutrition in Children
Women Supporting Women to Improve Infant and Child Feeding Practices in Pakistan
This project aims to reduce child malnutrition in Pakistan by building on local strengths and practical community solutions. The project focuses on children 7-23 months of age.
- Trial name
- NCT07345754
- Testing
- 28-day Behavioural Change Program
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Infant, Very Low Birth Weight, Calcium Deficiency
Identifying Vitamin D Deficiency in Very Low Birth Weight Infant (VLBW) Infants Part 2
This study is to determine the amount of vitamin D required for a very low birth weight infant to reach vitamin D sufficiency and achieve optimal calcium health and bone growth.
- Conditions
- Infant, Very Low Birth Weight, Calcium Deficiency, Vitamin D Deficiency
- Trial name
- NCT01363167
- Testing
- 400 IU Cholecalciferol- Vitamin D Daily
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 68 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Food Allergy in Children, Obesity, Childhood
The EAT-On Study: Sensitisation, Allergy and Child Health
The EAT Study showed a reduction in both sensitisation (to all foods) and clinical food allergy (to peanut and egg) among children who consumed allergenic food early compared with those who followed standard government feeding…
- Conditions
- Food Allergy in Children, Obesity, Childhood, Food Allergen Sensitisation
- Trial name
- NCT03495583
- Testing
- Early introduction
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 1,235 people
- Sponsor
- King's College London
Extreme Prematurity, Anemia of Prematurity
Folic Acid Supplementation to Reduce Anemia in Extremely Preterm Infants
Anemia of Prematurity (AOP) is very common in extremely preterm infants and often leads to blood transfusions. Folic acid, essential for growth and DNA synthesis, is deficient in premature infants.
- Trial name
- FASCINATE (NCT06220461)
- Testing
- Folic acid
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
Pediatric Obesity, Weight Gain Trajectory
Assessing Better Bottles for Babies
This study will use a 2 x 2 factorial design to test impact of two intervention strategies (bottle size and bottle opacity) on infant weight gain.
- Conditions
- Pediatric Obesity, Weight Gain Trajectory, Infant Obesity
- Trial name
- AB3 (NCT06357299)
- Testing
- Small Bottle Size, Standard Bottle Size, Clear Bottle
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- Duke University