Kenneth H. Brown

Comparison of Methods to Assess Adherence to Small-quantity Lipid Based Nutrient Supplements (SQ-LNS) and Dispersible Tablets among Young Burkinabe Children Participating in a Community-based Intervention Trial

Souheila Abbeddou, Sonja Y. Hess, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Jérôme W. Somé, Rosemonde M. Guissou, Zinéwendé P. Ouédraogo, Stephen A. Vosti, Jean Bosco Ouedraogo & Kenneth H. Brown · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2018

Objectives: Adherence to supplementation provided during an intervention trial can affect study outcomes. We compared different approaches for estimating adherence to SQ-LNS and dispersible tablets in a randomized clinical trial in Burkina Faso to evaluate concordance among resul...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21209

An Economic Model for Optimizing Effective Coverage of MN interventions: A Case Study of Cameroon

Stephen Vosti, Reina Engle-Stone, Justin Kagin, Joanne Arsenault, Robert Hijmans, Ryan Murphy, Erica Rettig, Ann Tarini & Kenneth H. Brown · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Micronutrient (MN) interventions are generally undertaken at national scale.  New spatially disaggregated data on MN deficiencies in Cameroon suggest that subnational strategies may be more efficient, but methods to choose among alternative interventions are needed. ...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21244

Zinc added in Different Amounts to Small-quantity Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements (SQ-LNS) or provided as a Tablet did not affect Diarrhea or Malaria Morbidity in young, Rural Burkinabe Children

Jérôme W. Somé, Souheila Abbeddou, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Zinéwendé P. Ouédraogo, Rosemonde M. Guissou, Janet M. Peerson, Sonja Y. Hess, Steve A. Vosti, Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo & Kenneth H. Brown · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Meta-analyses find that supplemental zinc reduces the incidence of diarrhea and acute lower respiratory tract infections, but its effect on malaria is inconsistent. We assessed the effects of different amounts of zinc in SQ-LNS compared with zinc in a dispersible tabl...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20902