Breakfast skipping and academic achievement at 8-16 years: a population study in South Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

While studies have highlighted a link between breakfast consumption and cognitive performance, evidence for how breakfast influences academic outcomes is mixed. This study explored the association between student breakfast skipping and academic achievement.

Design

This cross-sectional investigation employed population data. Self-reported breakfast consumption was used to categorise students as never, sometimes and always breakfast skippers. Scores on five standardised literacy and numeracy tests were used to classify students to have low or high achievement according to national minimum standards. Poisson regression analyses estimated the relative risk (RR) of low academic achievement among students across breakfast skipping categories, adjusting for student, famil

SUBMITTER: Sincovich A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11883582 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature