Randomized community trial to assess nutritional, socioeconomic, and health outcomes of a food forest initiative in Santa Elena Province, Ecuador
A study protocol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22090455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marco Faytong‐Haro (0000-0002-4238-1767, Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo, corresponding author), Marco Faytong-Haro, Alonso Quijano-Ruiz (0000-0002-2738-2761), Daniel Sánchez (0009-0009-9962-5281), Daniel O Sánchez (0000-0002-5427-7764, Simon Fraser University), Patricio Álvarez-Muñoz (0000-0002-9754-8050, Universidad de Salamanca), Stephanie Gallegos-Caamaño, Victor Yambay-Delgado (Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo), Karina Checa, María José Delgado-Rendón, Andrea Angulo-Prado |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Pages | 1420310-1420310 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1420310 |
| PMID | 39776484 |
| OpenAlex | W4405745447 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Malnutrition is an escalating concern in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), including Ecuador, particularly within rural settings. To address this issue, food forests emerge as a promising intervention. This research protocol outlines a controlled intervention in the province of Santa Elena, aiming to evaluate the efficacy of a food forest in enhancing nutritional outcomes, with potential implications for broader replication. The study will be conducted in the Colonche Parish of Santa Elena Canton, where one commune will be randomly selected to receive the food forest intervention. In contrast, another similarly characterized commune, also randomly selected through cluster-based sampling, will serve as a control group, receiving no intervention. This randomized, comparative approach will enable a more precise assessment of the food forest's impact. Data collection will occur at three intervals: baseline, 6 months, and 12 months post-intervention. Comprehensive questionnaires will be employed to measure the food forest's influence on the communities' nutritional, economic, and health metrics, distinguishing between the intervention and control communes to elucidate the intervention's specific effects
Alternative medicine · Cluster randomised controlled trial · Environmental health · Environmental protection · Geography · Malnutrition · Population · Randomized controlled trial · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Medicine · Nursing · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
Revisiting maternal and child undernutrition in low-income and middle-income countries
Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries
Food Security
Agroforestry's contribution to livelihoods and carbon sequestration in East Africa
The importance of forest foods for diet quality
The WHO quality of life (WHOQOL) questionnaire
Contribution of forest foods to dietary intake and their association with household food insecurity
The Role of non-timber forest products as safety-nets
Forest environmental incomes and the rural poor
Quantifying the economic contribution of wild food harvests to rural livelihoods
Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods
Killing Me Softly
The crises inherent in the success of the global food system
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |