Trial design
pulses-based
RECRUITMENT
This study was a pragmatic stratified cluster randomized parallel controlled trial. The clusters were schools, and the participants were female adolescents. The study had two arms, intervention and control arms. A total of four schools were purposively selected and assigned to the intervention group (IG) and control group (CG) by using a stratified cluster randomization technique. Female adolescents were then recruited by systematic random sampling from the respective schools. The intervention was pulses-based nutrition education, while the comparator was the usual dietary practice of female adolescents. Participant recruitment was conducted in the 1st week of December 2021, and baseline data were collected in the 3rd week of December 2021. The nutrition education was conducted from the 4th week of December 2021 to the 3rd week of January 2022, and end-line data were collected in the 1st week of June 2022.