2.1: Anthropometric Indicators Measurement Guide - Linkages Project

REFERENCES PART 9.
Measurement and Recording
Before carrying out the exercise, the
supervisor carefully weighs and measures
each child and records the results without
any of the trainees seeing the results. For
each exercise, a group of up to 10
measurers will conduct the measurements
in a pre-determined order. Each
child will remain at a fixed location. The
distance between each child should be big
enough to prevent measurers seeing/
hearing each others results.
At the beginning of an exercise, each
measurer and assistant is paired with a
child. Once the children and the
measurers have been positioned with their
respective materials and instruments, the
supervisors should instruct the measurers
to begin the measurements following the
pre-established sequence. The measurer
carefully conducts the measurements and
clearly records in ink the results on the
anthropometric standardization form (MY
MEASURE column) next to the child’s
identification number. The measurers
remain with the child until the supervisor
instructs them to move. Once results are
recorded, corrections are not allowed.
When all the measurers have conducted
their measurements, the supervisor
should instruct them to move to next child
following the numerical order and
requests that they wait for instructions to
begin the measurement. This process is
repeated until all children have been
weighed and measured by all the
measurers.
Use the same equipment to measure
each child’s weight and stature.
Measurers and assistants should rotate to
conduct the measurement, but the
equipment remains stationed next to each
child. Only one pair of measurers should
be with a child at any one time. Talking
between measurer-pairs during this
exercise is not allowed.
The supervisor should take advantage
of the standardization exercises to
systematically observe each measurer’s
performance using the Measurement
Techniques Observation Form 3. This
form contains a list of the most important
steps of each measurement technique, that
allows the supervisor to record if each step
was completed appropriately, and to later
discuss the results of these observations
with the staff.
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