The authors found that an infant and young child feeding intervention advanced language and gross motor development, and the increase in development milestones was partially explained by improved complementary feeding. This paper suggests that integrated nutrition programs should measure outcomes such as child development milestones, not just physical size, when evaluating program impact.
Large-scale behavior-change initiative for infant and young child feeding advanced language and motor development in a cluster-randomized program evaluation in Bangladesh
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Frongillo EA, Nguyen PH, Saha KK, Sanghvi T, Afsana K, Haque R, Baker J, Ruel MT, Rawat R, Menon P
