Anthropometric evaluation of primary school students in the Mazandaran province for design of school furniture in 2014-2015

Inappropriate sizes of school furniture in the deformation of children’s body is one of the issues of concern in the world. The aim of this study was evaluation of anthropometry of primary students in the aged 6 - 12 years of Mazandaran and design of school furniture based on the anthropometric criteria of the students.
In the cross-sectional study 18 anthropometric dimensions of 2336 boys and girls aged 6-12 years in 2014-2015 was measured. To collecting the data anthropometric chair, camera and camera stand, and Anthropometric photo graphical software was used. After determining the anthropometric dimensions, the ergonomics school furniture were designed.
Average, minimum, maximum, standard deviation, median and percentile value of 2.5 to 97.5 of the anthropometric dimensions of students was calculated. The results showed that gender had no effect on the popliteal height in the age groups of 6 to 7 and 7 to 8 but the age had effect on popliteal height (P The results showed by eliminating the effects of sex, 16.2 mm popliteal height increased per year. It was also found that after eliminating the effects of age, popliteal height for girls than boys increased to 20.39 mm. Until the age of puberty, the anthropometric dimensions in girls than boy was increased. The dimensions of ergonomics tables and chairs for students was designed in three sizes.