Amanda Maxfield, Craig Hadley, Daniel J Hruschka
The relationship between altitude and BMI varies across low- and middle-income countries
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
breakfast regarded important meal day suggested positively affect learning children adolescent terms cognitive school performance yet studies lmic settings show inconsistent results assess prevalence correlates breakfast skipping association school performance among randomly selected inschool adolescents hidhabu abote wereda north shewa zone central ethiopia crosssectional study conducted november december 2020 total 422 participants selected randomly high schools hidhabu abote wereda data entered epiata version 31 exported spss version 24 analysis bivariate multivariate binary logistic regression analysis identified factors significantly associated breakfast skipping odds ratio along 95 confidence interval estimated measure strength association level statistical significance declared pvalue less 005 magnitude breakfast skipping 413 95 ci 366460 statistically significant association breakfast skipping overall academic performance aor 518 95 ci 154746 mathematics performance 388 95 ci 1341122 english language performance scores 292 95 ci 138758 female aor 1857 95 ci 105327 household food insecurity aor 2478 95 ci 136451 less maternal education aor 189 95 cl 338777 independently associated breakfast skipping primary reasons given breakfast skipping lack time lack appetite morning concerns around weight gain nearly half inschool adolescents skipped breakfast meals reportedly cases reasons unrelated lack food access students skipped breakfast lower levels school performance