Anthropometric measurements are a series of quantitative measurements of the muscle, bone, and adipose tissue used to assess the composition of the body. The core elements of anthropometry are height, weight, body mass index (BMI), body circumferences (waist, hip, and limbs), and skinfold thickness

1. Mr. Abhijit Bhoyar
2nd year M Sc Nursing
SRMM CON Sawangi
DEMONSTRATION
ON
Anthropometric assessment

2. GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
• At the end of the procedure student will be
able to understand the procedure and develop
positive attitude towards it and apply this
skills in clinical as well as in teaching practices.

3. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
• Define anthropometric assessment
• Enlist parameters of anthropometric
assessment.
• Enlist the purposes.
• Enumerate the articles needed for the
assessment

4. • Discuss about procedure of assessment
• Enlist the advantages and limitation of
anthropometric assessment.
• Explain role of nurse

5. Introduction
 Anthropos - "man"
and Metron "measurement”
 A branch of anthropology that involves the
quantitative measurement of the human body

6. Parameters of anthropometry
a) Weight
b) Height
c) Head circumference
d) Chest circumference
e) Mid upper arm circumference

7. Purposes
• To find out the nutritional status of the child
• To find the growth and development pattern
of the child
• To find any deviation in growth and
development from the normal pattern

8. • To help in treatment plan by assessing the
current growth.
• To help in conformation of the diagnosis.

9. Articles needed
 weight
machine/electronic
weight machine.
 Spring balance or beam
balance.
 Inch tape to measure
the circumference

10.  Stadio-meter to measure
the height of preschool age
and adolescence.
 Infantometer to measure
the height or length of
newborn.
STADIO-METER
INFANTOMETER

11.  A bowel with cotton swab with spirit or normal saline to
clean the measuring tape, weighing machine, and
infantometer.
 Kidney tray or paper bag to discard the waste.
 Growth chart to plot the values, or recording, reporting
articles.
 A clean paper or plastic sheets to spread over the pan of
the weighing machine to prevent infection and injury to the
infant.

12. PROCEDURE:

13. WEECH’S FORMULA
• 3 – 12 months = Expected weight(kg) = age
(months) + 9 / 2
• 1- 6 years = Expected weight(kg) = age (years) x 2 +
8
• 7 – 12 years = Expected weight(kg) = age (years) x 7
- 5 / 2

14. MEASUREMENT OF HEIGHT AND LENGTH

16. Formula Expected height upto 12 yrs
• length or height (in cms) = age in years x 6
+77 ( wheech’s formula )

17. HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE
Head circumference is a measurement
of a child's head around its largest
area. It measures the distance from
above the eyebrows and ears and
around the back of the head

18. CHEST CIRCUMFERENCE
• Procedure
• Chest circumference is measured
with inch tape.
• Place the tape and measured
around the back and front at the
level of both nipple, and count at
mid point of chest in front.
• Do not keep tape measure too
tight or to loose, record the
findings

19. MID UPPER ARM CIRCUMFERENCE
• Procedure
• The mid upper arm
circumference is measured
from the left upper arm .
• the arm should be hang
freely.
• The tape measure should be
placed at mid point of upper
arm.

20. Conti…
• It should be located between the tip of acromian process of
scapula and olecranon process of ulna bone.
• While measuring the mid arm circumference, the arm should
be free from any cloth.
• Do the recording of circumference.
• All the measurements should be plotted on the growth chart.

21. ADVANTAGES OF ANTHROPOMETRY
• Less expensive & need minimal training
• Readings are reproducible.
• Objective with high specificity & sensitivity
• Measures many variables of nutritional significance (Ht, Wt,
MAC, HC, skin fold thickness, & BMI).
• Readings are numerical & gradable on standard growth charts

22. LIMITATIONS OF ANTHROPOMETRY
– Inter-observers errors in measurement
– Limited nutritional diagnosis
– Problems with reference standards, i.e. local
versus international standards.

23. Role of nurse
• She should know the articles needed for the anthropometric
assessment.
• She should check the instruments are in working condition
• She should explain about the procedure.
• She should maintain the records

24. THANK YOU