Cochrane · systematic review · CD013376
Agricultural and nutritional education interventions for reducing aflatoxin exposure to improve infant and child growth in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Visser, ME, Schoonees, A, Ezekiel, CN, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2020 · Cochrane Library
Public HealthAMSTAR 2: not assessed
SoF tableOnly the outcomes this review put in its Summary of Findings table are listed (the Cochrane Handbook caps them at about seven per comparison). Its other analyses are not shown here.
Questions
9
current version
GRADE rated
2
No studies
0
Included studies
NR
No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 7 · 77.8%Very low 2 · 22.2%Low 0 · 0%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%
Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.
Questions and results
Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies compared to usual agricultural support for reducing aflatoxin exposure in pregnant and lactating women, infants, and children to improve childhood growth
Population: pregnant and lactating women, infants, and children
| Outcome | Effect | Evidence | Status / GRADE |
|---|---|---|---|
Birth length for gestational age z‐score Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 0 studies · 0 participants | Ungraded |
Birth weight for gestational age z‐score Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 0 studies · 0 participants | Ungraded |
Low birth weight (less than 2500 g) Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 0 studies · 0 participants | Ungraded |
Length‐ or height‐for‐age z‐score (LAZ) Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 0 studies · 0 participants | Ungraded |
Stunting (LAZ ≥ 2 SD below reference median value) Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 0 studies · 0 participants | Ungraded |
Weight‐for‐height z‐score (WHZ) Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 0 studies · 0 participants | Ungraded |
Unintended effects of agricultural and nutritional education interventions to reduce the aflatoxin intake of infants, children, pregnant and lactating women Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 0 studies · 0 participants | Ungraded |
Weight‐for‐age z‐score (WAZ) Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 1 study · 249 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Proportion of underweight children (WAZ ≥ 2 SD below reference median value) Agricultural education with post‐harvest technologies vs usual agricultural support | no estimate extracted | 1 study · 249 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |