The Shishu Pushti Trial–Extended Peer Counseling for Improving Feeding Practices and Reducing Undernutrition in Children Aged 0-48 Months in Urban Bangladesh: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Seema Mihrshahi   ^{1, 2 *} , BSc (Hons), MPH, PhD ;   Gulshan Ara   ^{3 *} , MSc, MPH ;   Mansura Khanam   ³ , MSc, MPH ;   Sabrina Rasheed   ³ , PhD ;   Kingsley Emwinyore Agho   ⁴ , MSc, MEng, MPH, PhD ;   AKM Iqbal Kabir   ⁵ , MBBS, MD, PhD ;   S K Roy   ⁶ , MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRCP ;   Rukhsana Haider   ⁷ , MBBS, MSc, PhD, FABM ;   Jena Derakhshani Hamadani   ³ , MBBS, DCH, PhD ;   Fahmida Tofail   ³ , MBBS, PhD ;   Ashraful Alam   ² , MSS, PhD ;   Michael J Dibley   ² , MBBS, MPH

¹ Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, Australia

² Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

³ Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

⁴ School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, Australia

⁵ Projahnmo Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

⁶ Bangladesh Breastfeeding Foundation, Institute of Public Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh

⁷ Training and Assistance for Health and Nutrition Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

*these authors contributed equally