Author(s)

Xiao Chen¹, Hongyu Chen², Linquan Gong¹, Yonggen Fang¹, Xiaobing Luo¹, Dianqing Zhu¹

¹MianYang Education Research Institution, Mianyang, China.
²Department of Physical Education, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, China.

In order to understand the relationship between breakfast frequency and academic performance of grade 5 and grade 8 students, we conducted an investigation through a multistage cluster sampling design with 16,840 students (8017 5th graders and 8823 8th graders) from Mianyang city. Results show that: 1) 71.3% of fifth graders and 59.7% of eighth graders had breakfast every day of the week, and 9.7% of fifth graders and 7.5% of eighth graders had breakfast three times or less per week. 2) The number of times students eat breakfast per week has a significant impact on their comprehensive academic performance, which is reflected in the trend that the more times students eat breakfast, the better their overall academic performance is. Based on this, in order to help students eat breakfast more often, and further improve students’ academic performance, we will strengthen the publicity and education of students’ breakfast knowledge from multiple perspectives.

Breakfast Frequency, Academic Performance, Students, Mianyang City

Chen, X. , Chen, H. , Gong, L. , Fang, Y. , Luo, X. and Zhu, D. (2020) Relationship between Breakfast and Academic Performance of Primary and Middle School Students in Mianyang City. Health, 12, 1383-1389. doi: 10.4236/health.2020.1210100.