PREPARE: Remote Nutrition Education, Ghana

In the wake of the pandemic, it is important to explore remote nutrition education programs during the pre- and postnatal period. This is the second phase of a bigger project, where a 6-week intensive remotely delivered nutrition and health education program called the PREPARE program will be piloted. Prepare stands for "Perinatal Remote Education for Pandemic Resilience", and it is a nutrition and health education program meant for pregnant and lactating women aimed at improving maternal and infant dietary diversity, maternal health literacy and increasing COVID-19 awareness. One hundred women will be selected from a pool of 233 women who completed a baseline survey last year. Fifty of them will receive the intervention and the other 50 will receive a delayed intervention.

Inclusion Criteria:Women currently enrolled on the preliminary phase of the PREPARE project who participated in our baseline survey are eligible. To have been part of the preliminary survey, women had to have had children between 6 and 15 months old during recruitment last year.Due to our primary outcome of infant dietary diversity, women from our preliminary survey whose children are currently between 6 months and 2 years will be included in the PREPARE pilot study.Exclusion Criteria:In our preliminary survey, participants were excluded if they were non-Ghanaian or currently pregnant.Besides women who had children less than 6 months at time of recruitment, there will be no other exclusion criteria for the PREPARE pilot.