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: Received: 21 April 2024 / Approved: 22 April 2024 / Online: 22 April 2024 (18:26:51 CEST)
How to cite:
Saha, M.; Ng, H.; Odjidja, E.N.; Saha, M.; Olivier, P.; McCaffrey, T.A.; Thilsted, S.H. Small Fish Big Impact: Improving Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation, and Empowerment for Marginalized Women. Preprints2024, 2024041416. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1416.v1
Saha, M.; Ng, H.; Odjidja, E.N.; Saha, M.; Olivier, P.; McCaffrey, T.A.; Thilsted, S.H. Small Fish Big Impact: Improving Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation, and Empowerment for Marginalized Women. Preprints 2024, 2024041416. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1416.v1
Saha, M.; Ng, H.; Odjidja, E.N.; Saha, M.; Olivier, P.; McCaffrey, T.A.; Thilsted, S.H. Small Fish Big Impact: Improving Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation, and Empowerment for Marginalized Women. Preprints2024, 2024041416. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1416.v1
APA Style
Saha, M., Ng, H., Odjidja, E.N., Saha, M., Olivier, P., McCaffrey, T.A., & Thilsted, S.H. (2024). Small Fish Big Impact: Improving Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation, and Empowerment for Marginalized Women. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1416.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Saha, M., Tracy A McCaffrey and Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted. 2024 "Small Fish Big Impact: Improving Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation, and Empowerment for Marginalized Women" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1416.v1
Abstract
Undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies such as anemia are considered significant public health challenges in Bangladesh, which enhancing fish consumption is a well-established food-based intervention to address these. This paper documents the establishment of community-based fish chutney production and reports the impact of its consumption on mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and hemoglobin (Hb) levels among targeted 150 pregnant and lactating women (PLW) in rural Bangladesh. A fish chutney was developed using locally available ingredients followed by a series of laboratory tests, including nutrient composition, shelf-life and food safety. A community-based fish chutney production process was designed to: 1) supply locally available ingredients for processing; 2) establish two fish drying sites; 3) initiate a community-based production site, and 4) distribute fish chutney to PLW by six women nutrition field facilitators for one year. Then a pre- and post-intervention study was designed for a selected 150 PLW to receive 30g of fish chutney daily for 12 months. Differences in mean mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and hemoglobin (Hb) levels pre- and post-consumption were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance. Consumption of 30g of fish-chutney resulted in significant increases of the mean values of Hb levels and MUAC among the targeted PLW.
Keywords
First 1000 days of life; anemia; pregnant and lactating women; women empowerment; community-based intervention; food-based intervention
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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