Associations between deprivation, attitudes towards eating breakfast and breakfast eating behaviours in 9-11 year olds

Moore, Graham ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-3978, Tapper, Katy, Murphy, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3589-3681, Lynch, Rebecca Jayne, Raisanen, Lawrence Matthew, Pimm, Claire Elizabeth and Moore, Laurence Anthony Russell 2007. Associations between deprivation, attitudes towards eating breakfast and breakfast eating behaviours in 9-11 year olds. Public Health Nutrition 10 (6) , pp. 582-589. 10.1017/S1368980007699558

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Objectives To examine school-level relationships between deprivation and breakfast eating behaviours (breakfast skipping and the healthfulness of foods consumed) in 9–11-year-old schoolchildren and to examine whether attitudes towards eating breakfast mediated these relationships. Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting One hundred and eleven primary schools in Wales. Subjects Year 5 and 6 pupils within the 111 primary schools. Measures were completed by 4314 children. Analysis was conducted at the group (school) level, with each school representing one group. Results Deprivation was positively associated with breakfast skipping and consumption of ‘unhealthy’ items (i.e. sweet snacks, crisps) for breakfast. A significant negative association was found between deprivation and consumption of ‘healthy’ items (i.e. fruit, bread, cereal, milk). Deprivation was significantly inversely associated with attitudes towards eating breakfast. The relationships between deprivation and (1) breakfast skipping and (2) consumption of ‘healthy’ items for breakfast were mediated by attitudes towards eating breakfast. The hypothesis that attitudes mediated the relationship between deprivation and consumption of ‘unhealthy’ breakfast items was unsupported. Conclusions Deprivation is associated with adverse breakfast eating behaviours amongst children aged 9–11 years, in terms of breakfast skipping and the quality of breakfasts consumed. Socio-economic differences in attitudes towards eating breakfast are apparent amongst this age group, and appear to relate to social gradients in breakfast eating behaviours. Research is needed to examine the causal nature of these trends and to elucidate factors underlying the development of socio-economic differences in eating-related cognitions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Breakfast; Attitudes; Socio-economic status; Children; Diet; Nutrition; Health
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Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	1368-9800
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2023 21:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3147

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