Effect of egg consumption on early childhood development: evidence from <i>Un Oeuf</i> study
Ernyey H, Tiwari C, Stark H, Hunniford E, N'Diaye AW, Zare Y, Omer A, McKune SL
Public health nutrition · 5 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
- Intake measured by
- Not stated
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- United States Agency for International Development
- Nonprofit
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Grants
- United States Agency for International Development (AIDOAAL1500003); United States Agency for International Development (AID-OAA-L-15-); United States Agency for International Development (OAA-L-15-00003)
Based on 2 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2024-12-12 · Public Health Nutr · vol. 28 · issue 1 · p. e10
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Cited
- 6 citations · more than 78% of similar papers · 1.3× the field average
- References
- 38 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Child Nutrition and Water Access · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Birth, Development, and Health
- Keywords
- Consumption (sociology), Biology, Geography, Demography, Sociology, Social science
- MeSH
- humans, diet, follow-up studies, child development, cognition, eggs, child, preschool, infant, rural population, burkina faso, female, male, surveys and questionnaires
8 authors
From US, BF, ET
- Helen ErnyeyUniversity of Florida
- Chhavi TiwariUniversity of Florida
- Heather A. StarkUniversity of Florida
- Emma HunnifordUniversity of Florida
- Aïssata Wereme N’diayeInstitut de l'Environnement et Recherches Agricoles; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique
- Zare YacoubaInstitut de l'Environnement et Recherches Agricoles; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique
Abstract
Objective
Recent studies have shown that inclusion of eggs in young children's diet can help meet nutritional requirements associated with cognitive development. This study aims to investigate the effect of egg consumption on early childhood development using Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 in Burkina Faso.
Design
The study presented here uses data collected during a follow-up of the Un Oeuf-a three-arm clustered randomised controlled trial (RCT), conducted roughly 4 months after the end of the RCT.
Setting
This research was conducted in eighteen rural villages within the Kaya Department of the Sanmatenga Province in Burkina Faso.
Participants
Participants of this study include a total of 244 children aged between 18 and 33 months, with seventy-eight children in the full intervention group, eighty-three in the partial group, and eighty-three in the control group.
Results
Results show that children with consistent egg consumption (in all months) had a lower odd of falling below the cut-off scores in gross motor (${\rm{OR}} = {\rm 0\!\cdot\!13},{\it P} = \rm{0\!\cdot\!02}$) and personal social skills (${\rm{OR}} = 0\!\cdot\!34,{\it P} =0 \!\cdot\!05$). And a dose-response was established; for each additional egg/week, a 1·9 % increase in scores for problem-solving skills was observed.
Conclusions
Findings from this study contribute to a growing body of evidence that increasing egg consumption among children in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) can improve growth and development. The study highlights the need for additional research in LMIC to better understand the multifactorial relationship between diet and childhood development.
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