بررسي الگوي رشد دانش آموزان مقطع ابتدايي شهر زاهدان

The Survey of growth Pattern of Zahedan primary School Children.

Background and Aim : Diagnosis of malnutrition and some special diseases in children depend on knowledge about their growth pattern. When children weight and height compare to specific index, it will be possible to find their growth deficiency. Lack of some standard index for height and weight in Iran made us to conduct a study for this purpose. Materials and Methods : So we conducted a cross-sectional study on 1146 primary school children(7-11 years old) in May 2002 in zahedan with a multistage sampling. Measurment of height and weight was done without shoes and minimal dress. Data were recorded and analyzed by SPSS and EPI softwares and using t-test,and chi-square. Results : The mean of height in 8-10 year old girls and the mean of weight in 7-1 lyear old girls of Zahedan were less than the boys in the same age. In every sex-age group, height and weight were significantly different with NCHS standards. The 50th percentile of weight in zahedanian girls was equivalent to 10th percentile of NCHS and 50th percentile of zahedanian boys weight was between 10th and 20th percentile of NCHS in all age groups. 75th percentile of zahedanian children height is equivalent to 50th percentile of NCHS.