Intervention and comparator
The intervention aimed to promote behavioral change by providing prompt practice through access to information and improved application. It consisted of educating mothers to increase dietary diversity for improving nutrition intake, also emphasizing stimulation, sanitation, and hygiene [The control group children received standard health care and were solely assessed in terms of their health outcomes. Their mothers did not receive any particular education intervention, as per the trial protocol.Regarding the potential future implementation of this intervention, the relevant comparator will be the current practice, considering both health outcomes and costs. However, the health outcomes and costs associated with the current practice are unavailable. Consequently, our analysis should be considered as an early health technology assessment that relied on two assumptions: First, for the health outcomes, we assumed that the current practice will yield similar results to those observed in the control group during the trial. Second, for costs, we assumed that the costs of the intervention will be in addition to the costs associated with the current practice.