Nutritional intake of an undernourished infant population receiving an energy and micronutrient supplement in Indonesia

Objectives: This paper reports the dietary intake (home, day care centers, supplement and breast milk) of the children in the clinical trial in Pangal engan. Design: Two cohorts of children were randomly assigned to three treatments: E = 1171 kJ + 12 mg iron; M = 209 kJ + 12 mg iron; S = 104 kJ. Supplementa tion was given for 12 months. Setting: The sites were six tea plantations in Pangalengan, West Java. Subjects: A 12-month-old (n = 53) and an 18-month-old (n = 83) cohort were recruited from day-care-centers. Twenty children who received S belong to t he 12- and 18-month-old cohorts. Inclusion criteria were: no chronic diseas e; length-for-age less than or equal to -1 standard deviation (s.d.) and we ight-for-length between -1 and -2 s.d. of the median of the reference of th e World Health Organization. Methods: E = 1171 kJ + 12 mg iron; M = 209 kJ + 12 mg iron; S = 104 kJ. Sup plementation was given for 12 months. Evaluations of intake were made at ba seline and every 2 months thereafter. Results: For the 12-month-old cohort the mean increase in daily energy inta ke similar to 2931 kJ for E, similar to 1675 kJ for M, and similar to 837 k J increase over the 6 months for the S group. For the 18-month-old cohort t he changes were similar to 2512 kJ for E similar to 1675 for the M group an d similar to 1047 for the S group.