Weight/Obesity - Pediatric/Paediatric

Nutrition Care Process (Toolkits)

Last Updated: 2021-03-16 Target Group: All children(0-12 yr.), Youth(13-17 yr.)

Nutrition Assessment

The nutrition assessment of an overweight or obese child or adolescent may include the following parameters using NCP terminology in the table below:

Monitoring and Evaluation

Some of the indicators that were measured in the nutrition assessment can be repeated in the monitoring and evaluation step.

Anthropometric Measurements
Length Weight Weight Change Growth Pattern Indices/Percentile Ranks
Anthropometric Comparative Standards
*Measure*	*Recommendation*	*NCP Terminology*
Birth to 24