background: assessment of national children's growth indicated a high prevalence of growth failure among them. many previous projects have studied the children’s growth & nutrition status but most of them have not evaluated. the aim of this study was to evaluate the mothers' participation project after passing two years. methods: in this descriptive and summative evaluation study, 90 mother and...

This guide describes ways to use and interpret the 2000 CDC Growth Charts 1 to assess physical growth in infants, children and adolescents. During routine screening, physical growth is assessed using a child’s weight, length/stature, and head circumference (infants & toddlers). One-time measurements, taken and plotted accurately on a growth chart, maybe used to screen children for nutritional r...

Though these series have similardescriptions, their growth rates often differ substantially, especially over periods as short as a month (table 1). For instance, in the three years ending in December 1982, the difference between monthly growth rates of the two reserves series (absolute value) averaged 8.6 percentage points. Average differences in growth rates were much smaller over periods long...

background: reference charts are widely used in healthcare as a screening tool. this study aimed to produce reference growth charts for school children from west malaysia in comparison with the united states centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) chart. methods: a total of 14,360 school children ranging from 7 to 17 years old from six states in west malaysia were collected. a two-stag...

We performed a retrospective chart review for 149 randomly selected well-child encounters to evaluate the frequency with which clinicians plot growth measurements and document growth abnormalities during health maintenance visits. Providers failed to plot at least one measurement of height, weight, and/or head circumference in 31 of 149 encounters (21%, 95% CI = 14.5% to 27.5%). Growth abnormal...