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day weight
1 10.9
7 9.7
14 10.1
21 10.9
28 11.4
35 11.8
42 12.1
49 12.5
Then your wight gain would be:
last weight - minimum weight
Using R this would be something like:
weight[length(weight)] - min(weight)
This should be easy to do do in STATA (not sure about EXCEL).
Moses,
I agree that weight between days will be small and gains may be lost in the noise of measurement errors and other sources of variation (e.g. hydration). Gains should be large enough between visits (weekly or fortnightly) to be detectable. In this case we would not want to see a zero or negative weight gain between visits (the exception is that we'd want to see negative weight gain as oedema is lost in kwashiorkor cases).
I assume "IPF" means inpatient stabilisation (SC). Weight gains will usually be small or negative (in the case of loss of oedema). It is common to transfer from SC to OTP after a few days based on clinical criteria (infections treated, oedema lost, appetite returned) rather than weight loss. Whether you use data from the start of the SC phase or from the start of the OTP episode is a matter of choice. If the SC is run by a separate agency then and you do not have easy access to patients' SC records then it is common to use data from the OTP episode alone. This should not make much difference as their should be << 5% of patients entering SC after the first few weeks of operation.
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10 years agoHi Alice,
"Average weight gain = Sum of individual weight gains (gram/kg/day) / Total number of beneficiaries".
STATA code for a variable set:
var1 var2 var3 ...... var12
x11 x12 x13 ...... x112
x21 x22 x23 ...... x212
1. generate a variable with minimum weight
. egen minweight = rowmin (var1 - var12)
2. generate a variable with maximum weight
. egen maxweight = rowmax (var1 - var12)
3. generate a variable with gained weights
. gen weight_gained = maxweight - minweight
4. calculate the average of gained weights
. mean weight_gained
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8 years agoWhen we calculate the average weight gain indicator for the program then average weight gain of all discharged children will be counted as death, defaulter, cured, not cured and referral or it will counted for only successfully discharged children.
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3 years agoAverage weight gain is typically reported as the average weight gain of those children discharged as cured during the reporting period.
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3 years ago- To calculate the weight gain, we consider the lowest weight that the child had during his stay at the CRENI and also take into account the length of stay from this minimum weight until the child's discharge.
- For the calculation of the average weight gain it only takes into account the children who leave the CRENI cured.
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3 years agoWhat are the weight gain assessment ranges?
As an example after calculation we obtain a weight gain = 5.5g/kg/day. Can we conclude that it is good, average, very good?
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2 years agoHello,
I think it's easier to use the WHO weight gain chart.
It is more convenient and more reliable.
Thank you
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2 years agoDear Dr,
When ever you calculate weight gain it is recommended to take lowest wt rather than taking the admission weight, in addition to this the child should be free from oedema.
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