Protocols

The iLiNS Project has developed research protocols for acceptability studies, efficacy trials, and socio-economic studies. Links to the protocols for all efficacy trials are available below. Descriptions of several Project sub-studies are also available below. We also provide a two-page description of our approach to assessment of infant motor, cognitive, and socio-emotional development in each study site.

Protocols for acceptability studies and efficacy trials are all be registered at clinicaltrials.gov, a website maintained by the U. S. National Institutes of Health. Links to protocols at clinicaltrials.gov follow.

Acceptability studies

Efficacy trials

Assessment of infant development

  • The effect of various formulations of lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) on motor, cognitive, and socio-emotional development at age 18 months in Malawi, Ghana, and Burkina Faso.
    Download a two-page description of our assessment approach here.

Sub-studies

  • Effect of daily consumption of a micronutrient-fortified, energy-dense lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) on breast milk intake in Malawian infants.
    Download a two-page description of this sub-study here.

  • The effect of various doses of lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) on energy intake from complementary foods of 9-month old infants in rural Malawi
    Download a two-page description of this sub-study here.

    Watch this site for more information in coming months.
    For more information on iLiNS Project research protocols, contact us.