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Sirous Tayebi1, Ata Pourabbasi1, Mahbubeh Ebrahimnegad Shirvani1
1Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
Objective:
To determine whether dietary habits in Iranian secondary school students have any effect on an individual's performance in school.
Methods:
The observational, cross-sectional study was conducted in Tehran during the 2010-11 academic year. Standardised Graduate Point Average was used as school performance. A validated nationalised nutritional questionnaire, designed by an expert committee, was filled by each student. Data was analysed using SPSS 16.
Results:
The age of the 96 male high school students ranged betweeen 16 and 17 years, with the mean of 16.65 +/- 0.3 years. Of the total, 50 (52.1%) students had negative and 46 (47.9%) had positive standardised GPA. The average score of the questionnaire for the students in the positive group was significantly higher than the others (26.3 vs. 21.04) (p<0.05).
Conclusions:
Poor school performance in Iranian secondary school students was in relation with poor dietary habits.
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