Comparing the growth of under ‎‏2‏‎ years old children referring to health centers of ‎Bandar Abbas with NCHS standard curve

• Main Authors: kazem hoseinzadeh (Author), asyeh por mehr (Author), roghayeh rahmati (Author), hadi yosefi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Guilan University of Medical Sciences, 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

Introduction: Assessing the growth and development of children is an important parameter in ‎their health assessment. Since the growth effecting agents vary in countries, it is not sensible ‎considering a unique growth chart for all.‎ Objective: In this research we have studied the growth chart of children under ‎‏2‏‎ years old in ‎BandarAbbas and compared it to standard NCHS growth curve.‎ Methods: In this descriptive study, we have selected ‎‏1000‏‎ children from five health centers ‎of BandarAbbas by means of simple randomized sampling. All data about children (height & ‎weight) and their parents characteristics such as education and job were gathered and ‎analyzed by means of t-test and ANOVA.‎ Results: In contrary to height curve, the weight curve of children was below the standard ‎level. A significant relationship has been observed between weight curve and parents ‎education and fathers job, but mothers job does not have a significant effect on children ‎growth chart.‎ Conclusion: The weight gain pattern of children up to ‎‏24‏‎ months in Bandar Abbas differs ‎from the standard and this difference widens in age ‎‏6-18‏‎ months and is affected by factors ‎such as parents education and fathers job. Therefore, in attention to same timing of ‎introduction of solid food and tooth budding with widening of children weight curve with ‎standard curve, (all happens in ‎‏6‏‎ months age),more attention should be paid to feeding and ‎proper health intervention to be conducted in order to control effective factors on children ‎development.‎

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