Training on Nutrition Assessment and Survey using ENA EPIINFO
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.
Duration
5 Days
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.
Course Content
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
Date | Venue | Register |
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22nd to 26th Jan 2024 | Nairobi | |
19th to 23rd Feb 2024 | Mombasa | |
25th to 29th March 2024 | Nairobi | |
22nd to 26th April 2024 | Istanbul | |
20th to 24th May 2024 | Nairobi | |
24th to 28th June 2024 | Dubai | |
22nd to 26th July 2024 | Nairobi | |
26th to 30th Aug 2024 | Nairobi | |
23rd to 27th Sept 2024 | Nairobi | |
21st to 25th Oct' 2024 | Mombasa | |
25th-29th Nov' 2024 | Nairobi | |
16 to 20th Dec 2024 | Nairobi |
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