Growth monitoring was developed as a clinic-based programme in the early 1960s, and has spread widely in many countries. The results of weighing children are usually presented in a graphic form, unintelligible to most mothers and difficult for many health workers to interpret. This study suggests that the TALC Direct Recording Scale will allow growth monitoring to be undertaken even by illiterate mothers in the community and reports the results of a trial with a group of illiterate mothers amongst the Maasai of Kenya.

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Acquired pelvic obliquity. A case report.

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[A simple statistical method for achieving reliability in anthropometric measurements].

Most anthropometric studies fail to comment on the reliability of the measures. The authors assume that the complexity of the classical analysis of variance approach is one of the reasons for this. They therefore describe a simpler, yet scientifically sound method which assesses three sources of measurement error: intra and inter-observer as well as instrument errors. The measure of upper-arm-circumference of pregnant women, which has been proposed to be a predictor of birth-weight, is used as an example. Reliability was assessed by calculating agreement of a series of pairs of measurements. Inter and intra-observer-errors were found to be of the same size. Both types of human errors were statistically significantly greater than the error arising from the use of two different types of tapes (instrument error). It is hoped that other authors find this approach useful so that information on reliability in anthropometric studies becomes the rule rather the exception.

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