The impact of training for day-care educators on childhood anaemia in nurseries
An institutional randomised clinical trial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15093043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tulio Konstantyner (0000-0002-7931-9692, Universidade Federal de São Paulo), José Augusto AC Taddei (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, corresponding author), Mariana De Oliveira (0009-0004-6419-9343, Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Mariana de Novaes Oliveira, Domingos Palma (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Fernando Antonio Basile Colugnati (0000-0002-8288-203X, Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Fernando AB Colugnati |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1450-1457 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Health Nutrition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-9800 • E-ISSN: 1475-2727 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1368980010001977 |
| PMID | 20920384 |
| OpenAlex | W2035228487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
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 P ≤ 0·05 as statistically significant. Setting Eight day-care centres in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Subjects Two hundred and fifty-two children from day-care nurseries. Results The children from the day-care centres that were not subject to intervention presented a 2·11 times greater risk (95% CI 1·04, 4·30; P = 0·40) of having anaemia at the end of the study independent of the control variables (sex, age, time in the day-care centre, anaemia at the beginning of the study, maternal age, use of oral iron supplements, number of siblings, per capita family income, use of antibiotics and the necessity of avoidable hospitalisations) used in the construction of the final logistical model. Conclusions The assessed educational intervention promoted significant changes in the health status of the children, reinforcing the importance of training for professionals who care for young children in day-care centres in developing countries in order to promote child health
Anemia · Anthropometry · Day care · Environmental health · Family medicine · Health care · Intervention (counseling · Logistic regression · Per capita · Population · Randomized controlled trial · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Medicine · Nursing · Pediatric health and respiratory diseases · School Health and Nursing Education · Pediatrics
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |