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Pediatr Mex 2009; 11 (1)

Breakfast and marks in students attending the third grade of primary school

Cruz OSL, Hernández LCJ

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 12-14
PDF size: 54.54 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Background: School performance depends on multiple factors. Breakfast is one of them.
Objective: To analyze whether breakfast contributes to the obtainment of better marks (grades).
Material and methods: This was a prospective, transversal, comparative, and non-experimental study, with students attending the third grade of primary school in Los Mochis, Sinaloa State, from September 1st to December 10th 2007. The study included pupils from both sexes at public school, from the morning shift, healthy and living in the city. They were applied an interview in order to know if they had breakfast or not. The school administration provided the accumulated mark average up to the month of December. When the average was higher than 8.60, it was considered a good mark. It was used the statistical test χ2 of Mantel-Haenszel.
Results: From 224 students, half of them used to take breakfast. One hundred and nine were from the male sex and 115 of them from the female sex. The average age ranged from 8 to 10 years old. The marks of the 86 (76.8%) students that did not have breakfast were lower than 8.60, and 26 (23.2%) students that had breakfast had marks that were higher than 8.60. Fifty-nine (52.7%) students had a mark average lower than 8.60, and 53 (47.3%) students obtained an average mark above 8.60, The OR = 2.27, CI 95% (1.40–3.70) with P ‹ 0.05.
Conclusions: Having breakfast was a decisive factor in favor of obtaining better marks in this studied group.


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