Table 4 Summary of staff attitude towards use of wooden height boards
From: Improving assessment of child growth in a pediatric hospital setting
Traumatizing/Anxiety | “[It’s] very traumatizing to place the child into a “wooden Box”. It scares them, makes them cry more, and you can tell the parents are agitated with the process. It's also hard to hold the child down in the box.” |
Cumbersome | “Very heavy and bulky, hard to set up and break down. Must be a easier way to accomplish this.” |
Unsanitary | “Unsanitary, especially when we had to put the board on the crib to measure an infant. If we put it on the floor, we got very strange looks from the parents.” |
Inaccurate/Difficult to Use | “…Also, I feel that as hard as we tried, I don't know whether it was that accurate. The age of the population was also a factor-We get them when they do not feel well, are anxious and have probably been through other procedures (IV's, Labs, Xrays). We all know that heights are important but I did not feel that it was accurate especially when the [patient] was not cooperative. There must be a better way than the ShorrBoard.” |