Nutrition Assessment and Survey using ENA/ EPIINFO

FineResults Research Services invites you to training on:

Topic:              Nutrition Assessment and Survey using ENA/ EPIINFO

Date:               17th to 21st August 2020

Cost:               USD 800 or Ksh 65000

Contacts:        +254 759 285 295, [email protected].

Venue    :       FineResults Research, Nairobi, Kenya Training Centre.

INTRODUCTION

Poor nutritional is a leading cause of most non-communicable diseases and shortened life-span. Nutritional assessment and survey are done to obtain information about the prevalence and geographic distribution of nutritional disorders within a community or a specified population group. The purpose of Epi Info/ENA software is to make analysis of nutrition and mortality data collected in field surveys as easy and reliable as possible.

WHO CAN ATTEND

• Stakeholders in agriculture and agribusiness
• Farmer based groups;
• Food processors;
• Traders and intermediaries;
• Production Managers

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the training, participants should be able to:

• Understand the importance of nutrition assessments and survey
• Understand the basic anthropometric techniques application and reference standards
• Gain a general knowledge of how to install and work with ENA and EpiInfo software programs
• Install and work with ENA/EpiInfo Software
• Gain knowledge on how to program data entry forms
• Conduct automated plausibility and data quality checks
• Produce automated analyses of key mortality and nutrition indicators
• Generate reports that include results of these automated analyses.

TRAINING FOCUS

Module 1:

Introduction

• Definition of terms
• Purpose of nutritional assessment and survey
• Methods of nutritional assessment
• Anthropometric and malnutrition

Module 2:

Introduction to ENA Software

• Installation of the software
• Survey planning using ENA
• Data collection using ENA
• Data analysis and reporting using ENA
• Quality and credibility check

Module 3:

Introduction of EpiInfo Software

• Installation of the software
• Creating a questionnaire using EpiInfo
• Data entry using EpiInfo
• Basic Data Management and Analysis using EpiInfo
• Calculating Anthropometric Measures using EpiInfo
• Reading and writing different formats using EpiInfo
• Intermediate Data Management & Analysis using EpiInfo

Module 4:

ENA/EpiInfo Software

• Introduction to ENA/EpiInfo software
• Installation of the software
• Advantages of ENA/EpiInfo

Module 5:

Working With ENA/EpiInfo Software

• Creating a survey questionnaire from scratch
• Making a survey with the questionnaire template of ENA/EpiInfo software
• Entering data into the questionnaire
• Importing survey data from another software
• Automatic generation of the data quality report
• Automatic generation of the anthropometry graphs and survey report
• Settings of the program
• Survey planning and sample size calculation
• Training anthropometry exercise in ENA/EpiInfo

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Stakeholders in agriculture and agribusiness Farmer based groups; Food processors; Traders and intermediaries; Production Managers