Free School Breakfast Initiative Data Augmentation and Analysis

早餐通常被认为是一天中最重要的一餐，尤其是对儿童来说。它提供了一个机会，消费健康的食品，如水果和谷物，并与更好的体重管理和认知功能。不幸的是，英国有相当多的儿童不吃早餐或吃巧克力和薯片等质量差的食物。研究发现，这种不吃早餐的现象在肥胖儿童和贫困家庭的儿童中更为常见。实施了学校早餐计划，以鼓励吃早餐和从小养成健康饮食习惯。人们还认为，他可以导致在学校的表现有所改善。之前对此类计划的评估存在许多方法上的缺陷。这项研究利用了在威尔士议会小学免费早餐倡议的大型国家评估中收集的数据，该倡议为学校和学生提供了免费健康早餐的机会。该研究包括随机选择的111所学校，这些学校要么立即开始计划，要么在12个月内开始计划。问卷和访谈评估了不吃早餐和吃健康和健康食物的数量，对早餐的态度，学校行为和记忆，注意力和注意力。这些信息是在计划开始之前和12个月后收集的。结果显示，该计划有效地增加了早餐健康食品的消费量，以及对早餐的积极态度。但是，如果没有投资将这些结果与其他数据来源和后续分析联系起来，就不会进行额外的重要分析。如果有额外的资金，就有可能确定研究中每个学生的免费校餐权利、教育成绩数据和邮政编码。还可以审查研究期间从学生那里收集的更多详细的饮食营养信息。这将使人们能够审查这种干预措施是否能够改善学生的营养质量？以及它们是否能解决健康不平等问题。它也将有可能检查儿童之间的关系？的饮食和未来的教育表现随着时间的推移。这将为教育和卫生部门制定改善儿童健康的干预措施提供重要信息。的饮食和解决日益严重的肥胖问题。它还将提供重要信息，说明今后的公共卫生举措是否可以利用常规教育和卫生数据。

Breakfast is commonly referred to as the most important meal of the day, especially for children. It provides an opportunity to consume healthy foodstuffs such as fruit and grains and is associated with better weight management and cognitive functioning. Unfortunately, a significant number of children in the UK skip breakfast or eat poor quality food such as chocolate and crisps. Such breakfast skipping has been found to be more common amongst obese children and those from poorer backgrounds. School breakfast schemes have been implemented to try to encourage breakfast eating and the adoption of a healthy diet from an early age. It is also thought that his can result in improved performance in school. Previous evaluations of such schemes have suffered from a number of methodological shortcomings. This study draws on data collected in a large national evaluation of the Welsh Assembly Primary School Free Breakfast Initiative, which provided the opportunity for schools and pupils to have a free healthy breakfast. The study included 111 schools that were randomly selected to either start the scheme immediately or in 12 months time. Questionnaires and interviews assessed breakfast skipping and the amount of healthy and healthy food eaten, attitudes to breakfast, school behaviour and memory, concentration and attention. This information was collected before the schemes began and 12 months later. Results indicate the scheme was effective in increasing the consumption of healthy food items at breakfast, and positive attitudes towards breakfast. But additional important analyses will not be conducted without investment in linking these results to other sources of data and subsequent analyses.With additional funding it will be possible to identify free school meal entitlement, educational performance data, and postcodes for each pupil in the study. It will also be possible to examine additional detailed dietary nutritional information collected from pupils during the study. This will allow an examination of whether such interventions can improve the nutritional quality of school pupil?s diets and whether they can address health inequalities. It will also be possible to examine the relationship between children?s diets and future educational performance over time. This will provide important information for both the education and health sector in developing interventions to improve children?s diets and tackle rising levels of obesity. It will also provide important information on whether routine education and health data can be utilized in future public health initiatives.