KGAT CARD FOR DETECTION OF MALNUTRITION
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SDA-RF-CH-1.15
KGAT CARD FOR DETECTION OF MALNUTRITICN
During recent years growth monitoring per se has been regarded as a
strategy of preventing severe malnutrition and death
in children.
Tools for
measuring growth are simple and easy to use (weighing scale, measuring tape etc.)
and are available in a community/Family.
However, no tool is available at present
which nay be simple, small, portable and easy to use for interpretation of
anthropometric measurements collected at peripheral level.
The K.G.A.T. Card has
been developed to fulfil this need.
K.G.A.T. card is very easy to operate.
Just adjust the age of your
child (up to 60 months) on the respective 'window- of the card, you will .get
instantly the minimum expected weight (in kg), height (in cm) and mid upper arm
circumference (MJAC in cm).
And if these values are less than the critical values
(which are also shown simultaneously against each parameter i.e., weight, height and
MUAC , it warns that your child is suffering from severe malnutrition.
Alternatively
by adjusting the height (in cm) of your child on the KGAT card, you get the instant
minimum expected weight for this height along with the critical value which indicates
severe malnutrition.
If your child's nutrition status is between normal and severe
category of nutrition, it means he is suffering from mild to moderate degree of
malnutrition.
Different criteria used to interpret anthropometric measurements
in terms of malnutrition have been shown in the card.
The reference values
used for various parameters in KGAT card have been taken from W.H.O. Monograph
Series No.5^(D.B. Jellifftfe, Assessment of Nutritional Status of the Community,
1966)^except in case of MUAC, which have been derived from the Harvard
Standards (Stuart and Stevenson, 1959 Table I).
The pilot field testing of this tool was done in a group of 20
educated mothers in an urban clinic of Delhi and it was found to be 100 per cent '
acceptable.
The degree of agreement between qualified MBBS doctor
educated mother was 95-100 per cent.
is being tested at three centres.
vs
The detailed field testing of this card
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It is felt that this simple card would be extremely useful
guide for helping millions of literate nutrition-conscious mothers,
peripheral health and Nutrition Workers and supervisors in World
to monitor the health and nutrition status of children in canmunity.
The card is available from the Institute of Health
& Nutrition, E-35 Ansari Nagar, New Delji-110029.
(Unesh Kapil)
(M.C. Gupta)
TABLE CRITERIA USED TO INTERPRET ANTHROPOMETRIC
MEASUREMENTS IN TERMS OF MALNUTRITION.
S. No.
1.
Parameter
Weight for age
Cut off point for categorising malnutrition
(as percentage of
reference standard.)
Normal
Severe
80
60
Reference
criterion
used.
i) Indian Academy
of Paediatrics
ii)Wellcome Group
2.
Height for age
95
85
3.
Weight for height
90
70
4.
Mid upper arm
circumference
(MUAC)
J.C. Waterlow,
Lh WHO Monograph
Series No.62
80
50
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