%0 Journal Article
%T Study of the breakfast habits and its relationship with some factors in Semnan (Iran) pupils
%A Batool Karimi
%A Mahdi Sadat Hashemi
%A Hossein Habibian
%J Koomesh
%D 2008
%I Semnan Univeristy of Medical Sciences
%X Introduction: Proper nutrition is one of the essential factors to well being for children andadolescents. Meanwhile, breakfast has a major role to supply their requirement nutrients and energy.There are some experimental evidences that suggest that omitting breakfast negatively affectscognitive functioning. This survey was performed to study of breakfast habits and its relationshipswith some factors in Semnan (Iran) pupils during 2006.Materials and Methods: In this descriptive analytical study, 1193 pupils in different educationalgrades were selected by the multistage cluster sampling. Data were collected by using a questionnaireand analyzed with Kruskal Wallis, Mann - Whitney and Spearman Coefficient Correlation tests usingSPSS software.Results: The mean and standard deviation of age was 12.4¡À3.3 years old. 50.7% of them were boysand 49.3% were girls. 53.4% of the pupils stated that they always eat breakfast and the rest of them, donot eat irregularly. 4.4% of the pupils said they never eat breakfast. In this study, there was significantrelationship between breakfast habits and age (P<.01), educational grade (P<.0001), sex (P<.0001),the time of getting up in the morning (P<.0001), sleeping time at night (P<.0001), the education ofpupil¡¯s mother (P<.04) , the education of pupil¡¯s father (P<.05), the birth rank (P<.05) and theintervention of pupils in the breakfast planning (P<.0001). According to pupils¡¯ breakfast for threecontinuous days, the relative consumption of bread (2.26), tea (2.20) and cheese (1.66) was higherthan other foods, such as milk, walnut, honey, egg, fruit and fruit juice.Conclusion: These finding showed that pupils need to learn more about both irregular intake ofbreakfast and various intake of nutritious foods and this issue must be considered by differentauthorities.
%K Breakfast intake
%K Pupils
%K Related factors
%K Semnan (Iran)
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