Reliability, technical error of measurements and validity of instruments for nutritional status assessment of children in the Third National Health and Morbidity Survey, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Haniff, Jamaiyah, Appannah, Geeta, Mohammad Nor, Noor Safiza, Khor, Geok Lin, Wong, N. F., Kee, Chee Cheong, Zainuddin, Ahmad Ali, Rasat, Rahmah, Shahar, Suzana, Abd Talib, Ruzita, Chen, Won Sun, M., Rajaah, Yusoff, Ahmad Faudzi
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Nutrition Society of Malaysia 2008
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6818/1/Reliability.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6818/; http://www.nutriweb.org.my/publications/mjn0014_2/supplement.pdf

The Third National Health & Morbidity Survey, Malaysia 2006 included nutritional status assessment of children. This study estimated the reliability, technical error of measurement (TEM) and validity of those instruments in 130 children below two from a paediatric clinic. Two nurses measured...