Estimation of stature from hand length and hand breadth on medical students at Addis Ababa university and St.Paul hospital millennium medical college, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mulu, Abay (Assistant Professor; Department of Anatomy, AAU) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nebiyu, Wubeshet | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-05T10:50:43Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-29T04:16:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-12-05T10:50:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-29T04:16:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-02 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Stature of an individual is an inherent character and considered as one of important parameter of personal identification and to assess nutritional status; it is the sum total of different axial and appendicular bones. Each components of bone has its own relation to stature; and stature can be estimated both anatomically and mathematically. In most cases getting complete bone and measuring stature directly is difficult due to these challenge; estimation of stature from different parts of body is focus of many researchers. Objective: To assess correlation between hand length, hand breadth and stature of medical students and create regression equation to estimate stature. Methods and Materials: Cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 210 first year medical students at Addis Ababa University and St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College from January to August 2017. Participants were selected by simple random sampling method. Stature, hand length, hand breadth and weight of students were measured and a pretested questionnaire prepared in Amharic and English was used to gather sociodemographic data. Data was processed by using SPSS software version 23 for calculation of Mean, SD, correlation coefficient, regression coefficient and the value of constant to estimate stature. P-value less than 0.05 was taken as statistically significant. Results: About 51.4 % of participants were male and the mean age of participants was 19.45± 0.993 SD. The mean value of stature was172.715±5.218SD cm and 160.166±6.078 SD on male and female participants respectively. Hand length and hand breadth shows statistically significant correlation (r 0.229 - 0.720, p<0.05) with stature. All Morphometric measurements show statistically significant (p<0.05) sexual dimorphism. Only hand breadth exhibit statistically significant bilateral asymmetry. Regression equation derived from hand length shows larger R² value than hand breadth in both participants. The SEE of estimate was higher in hand breadth than hand length in both sexes. The result indicated that there was no statistically significant mean difference (p>0.05) between estimated and actual stature for both sexes. Conclusion: Hand length and hand breadth have statistically significant relation with stature; thereby stature could be predicted by both hand breadth and hand length when difficult conditions occurred. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/14877 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa Universty | en_US |
| dc.subject | Stature, Hand Length, Hand Breadth, Estimation | en_US |
| dc.title | Estimation of stature from hand length and hand breadth on medical students at Addis Ababa university and St.Paul hospital millennium medical college, Addis Ababa,Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |