Training Course

Nutritional Status Assessment

September 01 - 15, 2008

Objectives

At the end of the course the participants shall be able to:

• Understand the basic principles of nutritional assessment method (dietary, laboratoty, anthropometric, and clinical assessment)
• Understand the advantages, limitations and applicability of various methods used in nitritional assessment
• Acquire the methond and perform dietary, laboratory, anthropometric, and clinical assessment of individuals or groups in the community, essecially the vulnerable groups
• Analyze nutritional assessment data and evaluate nutritional indices using applopriate procedure, reference data criteia
• Develop competency and assurance in the careful evaluation, interpretation and critical appraisal of selected research articles on nutritional assessment

 

 

Topics

 1. Dietary Assessment

• Dietary assessment at national and multi national level
• Dietary assessment at household level
• Dietary assessment at individual level
• Data analysis using Nutrusurvey software

 

2. Biochemical Assessment

• Assessment of Macronutrient (protien, energy) status
• Assessment of Micronutrient (vitamins and minerals) status
• Laboratory practice on hemoglobin assessment using different instuments

 

3. Clinical Assessment

• Assessment of Macronutrient (protien, energy) status
• Assessment of Micronutrient (vitamins and minerals) status

 

4. Antropometric Assessment

• Growth assessment
• Body composition assessment
• Data analysis using Epi Info & Nutrisurvey software

 

The generic series of topics 1-4 are :

• Principles and use
• Method (instrumentsm procedure, advantages, limitations, quality control of data collection)
• Data analysis
• Evaluation (use of reference standards and cutoffs) in different age groups