The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the effect of the food bar made from api-api mangrove (Avicennia marina) and sword bean (Canavalia ensiformis) blends on the weight and Weight-for-Age Z score affected by a landslide disaster. The main questions aimed to answer are: * Food bar supplementation can effect the weight and WAZ score of under-five children affected by landslides disaster? * Balanced nutrition education can increase the mothers' knowledge on the balanced nutrition of under-five children? Participants divided in to two group i.e.: * Treatment/intervention group consumed 50 g mangrove sword bean food bar each day during 15 days. * Control group consumed 50 g sword bean food bar each day during 15 days. * Each group received balanced nutrition for mothers once at the first week of study.
Eligibility Criteria for Under-five children: * Aged between 12 and 59 months * Male and female * Living in Cihanjuang Village of Sumedang District which affected by the landslide disaster * Had malnutrition, normal, or over-nutrition status, and not suffering from infectious diseases.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
34
Each subjects of treatment group consumed 50 g food bar during 15 days. Monitoring of compliance undertaken by home visit to recall daily food consumption three days a week and to record the food bar stocks at home during study, and also weekly weight measurement.
Cihanjuang Village
Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia
Effect of mangrove-sword bean-food bar on the weight and Weight-for-Age Z score (WAZ) of under-five children affected by landslide disaster
Change of weight measured by digital weighing. Change of Weight for Age Z score measured by using Nutri Survey Software. Mean difference of weight and Weight-for-Age Z score were calculated as the value at two weeks minus the value at baseline.
Time frame: Two weeks
Change of mothers' balanced nutrition knowledge
Knowledge score of mothers of underfive children on the balanced nutrition at pre-post study measured by baseline and end-line questionnaires. Mean difference of balanced nutrition knowledge of mothers was calculated as the value at two weeks minus the value at baseline.
Time frame: Two weeks
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