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- Title
Reliability of measurements performed by community-drawn anthropometrists from rural Ethiopia.
- Authors
Ayele, Berhan; Aemere, Abaineh; Gebre, Teshome; Tadesse, Zerihun; Stoller, Nicole E; See, Craig W; Yu, Sun N; Gaynor, Bruce D; McCulloch, Charles E; Porco, Travis C; Emerson, Paul M; Lietman, Thomas M; Keenan, Jeremy D
- Abstract
Undernutrition is an important risk factor for childhood mortality, and remains a major problem facing many developing countries. Millennium Development Goal 1 calls for a reduction in underweight children, implemented through a variety of interventions. To adequately judge the impact of these interventions, it is important to know the reproducibility of the main indicators for undernutrition. In this study, we trained individuals from rural communities in Ethiopia in anthropometry techniques and measured intra- and inter-observer reliability.
- Publication
PloS one, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 1, pe30345
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0030345