Impact of education and provision of complementary feeding on growth and morbidity in children less than 2 years of age in developing countries: a systematic review

Table 3 Quality assessment of trials on complementary food with or without education

听	Quality Assessment					Summary of Findings
听				Directness		No of events		听
No of studies	Design	Limitations	Consistency	Generalizability to population of interest	Generalizability to intervention of interest	Intervention	Control	RR or SMD (95% CI)
Respiratory infections: Moderate outcome-specific quality
3 studies [20, 22, 26]	RCT	Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity	One study suggest benefit	听	听	375	448	RR 0.67 (0.49, 0.91)
*Diarrhea/vomiting: Moderate outcome-specific quality*
3 studies [20, 22, 26]	RCT	Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity	None of the study suggest benefit	听	听	424	488	RR 0.75 (0.42, 1.35)
*Fever: low outcome-specific quality*
2 studies [17, 22]	RCT	Random effect model was used because of heterogeneity	None of the study suggest benefit	听	听	195	187	RR 0.89 ( 0.41, 1.90)

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