There Is No Relationship between Academic Achievement and Body Mass Index among Fourth-Grade, Predominantly African-American Children
There Is No Relationship between Academic Achievement and Body Mass Index among Fourth-Grade, Predominantly African-American Children
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jand.2013.01.004
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Royer, Julie A.
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作者：
Baxter, Suzanne D.;Guinn, Caroline H.;Royer, Julie A.
以学校为基础的防治儿童肥胖的倡议可以用学习成绩来衡量成功。这项横断面研究调查了学业成绩与身体质量指数百分位数，社会经济地位（SES）和种族之间的关系，通过连接现有的数据集，这些数据集通常没有联系。来自一个以学校为基础的项目（由美国国立卫生研究院资助）的关于饮食回忆准确性的数据通过州研究和统计办公室与州教育部的数据联系起来。在2004-2005、2005-2006和2006-2007学年，南卡罗来纳州一个地区共有18所学校的1 504名四年级学生，主要是非洲裔美国儿童。学校工作人员对英语、数学、社会研究和科学进行了标准化考试。研究人员测量了儿童的体重和身高。儿童被分为低社会经济地位，中等社会经济地位，或高社会经济地位的基础上，免费，降价，或全价学校餐的资格，分别。四门学科的性别边际回归分析结果表明，考试成绩与体重指数百分位数无关，但与SES呈正相关（P值
School-based initiatives to combat childhood obesity may use academic performance to measure success. This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship between academic achievement and body mass index percentile, socioeconomic status (SES), and race by linking existing datasets that are not routinely linked. Data from a school-based project (with National Institutes of Health funding) concerning dietary recall accuracy were linked with data from the state's Department of Education through the state's Office of Research and Statistics. Data were available on 1,504 fourth-grade, predominantly African-American children from 18 schools total in one district in South Carolina during the 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007 school years. School staff administered standardized tests in English, math, social studies, and science. Researchers measured children's weight and height. Children were categorized as low-SES, medium-SES, or high-SES based on eligibility for free, reduced-price, or full-price school meals, respectively. Results from marginal regression analyses for each sex for the four academic subjects, separately and combined, showed that test scores were not related to body mass index percentile, but were positively related to SES (P values