![]() PD inquiries aim to discover successful care practices in poor households that likely promote well-nourished children. ![]() SC taught district trainers in November 1999 to train local health volunteers to implement the 10-month CENP, including situation analysis, positive deviance (PD) inquiry, growth monitoring and promotion, nutrition education and rehabilitation program (NERP), deworming, and monitoring. We selected 12 impoverished communes with documented child malnutrition, three comparison, and three intervention communes in each of two districts in Phu Tho Province, west of Hanoi. We used a longitudinal, prospective, randomized design. This paper describes the research methods of this community-based study. We evaluated the effect of Save the Children's (SC) community empowerment and nutrition program (CENP) on child growth, care, morbidity, empowerment, and behavioral determinants. ![]() Few prospective studies of child growth and its determinants take place in programmatic contexts.
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