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Prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study
BACKGROUND: Interventions to promote breakfast consumption are a popular strategy to address early life inequalities. It is important to understand the epidemiology of children and adolescents who skip breakfast so that interventions and policy can be appropriately considered. This study investigate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9034546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35459164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-022-03284-4 |
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author | Sincovich, Alanna Moller, Hero Smithers, Lisa Brushe, Mary Lassi, Zohra S. Brinkman, Sally A. Gregory, Tess |
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description | BACKGROUND: Interventions to promote breakfast consumption are a popular strategy to address early life inequalities. It is important to understand the epidemiology of children and adolescents who skip breakfast so that interventions and policy can be appropriately considered. This study investigated the prevalence of breakfast skipping among a contemporary, population-wide sample of children and adolescents in Australia. METHODS: Participants were grade 4–12 students (n = 71,390, 8–18 years) in South Australian government (public) schools who took part in the 2019 Wellbeing and Engagement Collection. The prevalence of breakfast skipping (never, sometimes, often, or always) was calculated for the overall sample and stratified by gender, school grade, socioeconomic status and geographical remoteness. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative risk ratio of sometimes, often, and always skippers compared with never skippers, according to demographic characteristics. RESULTS: Overall, 55.0% of students reported never skipping breakfast, 17.4% reported sometimes skipping, 18.0% reported often skipping, and 9.5% reported always skipping breakfast. Skipping breakfast was more prevalent among females, students in senior grades, and those living in socioeconomically disadvantaged and regional and remote areas. Analyses disaggregated by gender revealed that grade level gradients in breakfast skipping were more marked among females compared to males. CONCLUSIONS: Breakfast skipping among children and adolescents appears considerably more prevalent than previous research suggests. Drivers of breakfast skipping across population sub-groups need to be explored to better inform strategies to promote breakfast consumption. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12887-022-03284-4. |
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spelling | pubmed-90345462022-04-24 Prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study Sincovich, Alanna Moller, Hero Smithers, Lisa Brushe, Mary Lassi, Zohra S. Brinkman, Sally A. Gregory, Tess BMC Pediatr Research BACKGROUND: Interventions to promote breakfast consumption are a popular strategy to address early life inequalities. It is important to understand the epidemiology of children and adolescents who skip breakfast so that interventions and policy can be appropriately considered. This study investigated the prevalence of breakfast skipping among a contemporary, population-wide sample of children and adolescents in Australia. METHODS: Participants were grade 4–12 students (n = 71,390, 8–18 years) in South Australian government (public) schools who took part in the 2019 Wellbeing and Engagement Collection. The prevalence of breakfast skipping (never, sometimes, often, or always) was calculated for the overall sample and stratified by gender, school grade, socioeconomic status and geographical remoteness. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative risk ratio of sometimes, often, and always skippers compared with never skippers, according to demographic characteristics. RESULTS: Overall, 55.0% of students reported never skipping breakfast, 17.4% reported sometimes skipping, 18.0% reported often skipping, and 9.5% reported always skipping breakfast. Skipping breakfast was more prevalent among females, students in senior grades, and those living in socioeconomically disadvantaged and regional and remote areas. Analyses disaggregated by gender revealed that grade level gradients in breakfast skipping were more marked among females compared to males. CONCLUSIONS: Breakfast skipping among children and adolescents appears considerably more prevalent than previous research suggests. Drivers of breakfast skipping across population sub-groups need to be explored to better inform strategies to promote breakfast consumption. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12887-022-03284-4. BioMed Central 2022-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9034546/ /pubmed/35459164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-022-03284-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Sincovich, Alanna Moller, Hero Smithers, Lisa Brushe, Mary Lassi, Zohra S. Brinkman, Sally A. Gregory, Tess Prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study |
title | Prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study |
title_full | Prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study |
title_short | Prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study |
title_sort | prevalence of breakfast skipping among children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9034546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35459164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-022-03284-4 |
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