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Adolescents’ nutritional status and its association with academic performance in South Ethiopia; a facility-based cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable stages of life in which malnutrition inhibits academic performance through poor growth and development, mental retardation, poor overall cognitive function and poor health status. However, there is a dearth of evidence regarding the association be...

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Autores principales: Katiso, Selamawit Woldeyohanes, Kerbo, Amene Abebe, Dake, Samson Kastro
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8082903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33910651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40795-021-00420-8
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Kerbo, Amene Abebe
Dake, Samson Kastro
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description BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable stages of life in which malnutrition inhibits academic performance through poor growth and development, mental retardation, poor overall cognitive function and poor health status. However, there is a dearth of evidence regarding the association between nutritional status and academic performance among adolescent students. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the association of nutritional status and academic performance among adolescent secondary school students in Wolaita Sodo town, Southern Ethiopia. METHODS: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 670 systematically selected adolescents in secondary schools of Wolaita Sodo town from April to June 2019. The academic performance of the adolescents was measured using the mean mark score of two consecutive semesters’ results of all subjects. Data were analyzed using Stata software Version 15. Descriptive statistics, binary and multiple linear regression analysis were done. Statistical association of dependent and independent variables was declared at p-value < 0.05. RESULTS: The mean academic performance of students was 69.21 ± 0.42 (95% CI: 68.34–70.02%). A mean mark score of students increased by 1.89 (β = 1.89; 95%CI: 1.14, 2.64) for a unit increase in BMI for age z-score. Being female decreased a mean mark score by 2.63 (β = − 2.63; 95%CI: − 4.28, − 0.98) and being from a separated parents decreased by 4.73 (β = − 4. 73; 95%CI: − 6.73, − 2.74). A mean mark score of students from the first wealth class decreased by 9.92 (− 9.92; 95%CI: − 12.79, − 7.04) as compared to students from the highest wealth class. Attending private schools increased the mean mark score of students by 4.18 (β = 4.18; 95% CI: 2.46, 5.90). CONCLUSIONS: Interventions targeted at adolescents’ nutritional status should be designed and implemented. The town education office and concerned bodies should launch a school feeding program for public schools. Development and income generation activities should target households in the first wealth status. Schools are recommended to design additional teaching and learning schemes such as tutorial classes for girl students. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40795-021-00420-8.
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spelling pubmed-80829032021-04-29 Adolescents’ nutritional status and its association with academic performance in South Ethiopia; a facility-based cross-sectional study Katiso, Selamawit Woldeyohanes Kerbo, Amene Abebe Dake, Samson Kastro BMC Nutr Research Article BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable stages of life in which malnutrition inhibits academic performance through poor growth and development, mental retardation, poor overall cognitive function and poor health status. However, there is a dearth of evidence regarding the association between nutritional status and academic performance among adolescent students. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the association of nutritional status and academic performance among adolescent secondary school students in Wolaita Sodo town, Southern Ethiopia. METHODS: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 670 systematically selected adolescents in secondary schools of Wolaita Sodo town from April to June 2019. The academic performance of the adolescents was measured using the mean mark score of two consecutive semesters’ results of all subjects. Data were analyzed using Stata software Version 15. Descriptive statistics, binary and multiple linear regression analysis were done. Statistical association of dependent and independent variables was declared at p-value < 0.05. RESULTS: The mean academic performance of students was 69.21 ± 0.42 (95% CI: 68.34–70.02%). A mean mark score of students increased by 1.89 (β = 1.89; 95%CI: 1.14, 2.64) for a unit increase in BMI for age z-score. Being female decreased a mean mark score by 2.63 (β = − 2.63; 95%CI: − 4.28, − 0.98) and being from a separated parents decreased by 4.73 (β = − 4. 73; 95%CI: − 6.73, − 2.74). A mean mark score of students from the first wealth class decreased by 9.92 (− 9.92; 95%CI: − 12.79, − 7.04) as compared to students from the highest wealth class. Attending private schools increased the mean mark score of students by 4.18 (β = 4.18; 95% CI: 2.46, 5.90). CONCLUSIONS: Interventions targeted at adolescents’ nutritional status should be designed and implemented. The town education office and concerned bodies should launch a school feeding program for public schools. Development and income generation activities should target households in the first wealth status. Schools are recommended to design additional teaching and learning schemes such as tutorial classes for girl students. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40795-021-00420-8. BioMed Central 2021-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8082903/ /pubmed/33910651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40795-021-00420-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title Adolescents’ nutritional status and its association with academic performance in South Ethiopia; a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_full Adolescents’ nutritional status and its association with academic performance in South Ethiopia; a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Adolescents’ nutritional status and its association with academic performance in South Ethiopia; a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Adolescents’ nutritional status and its association with academic performance in South Ethiopia; a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_short Adolescents’ nutritional status and its association with academic performance in South Ethiopia; a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_sort adolescents’ nutritional status and its association with academic performance in south ethiopia; a facility-based cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8082903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33910651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40795-021-00420-8
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