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，尤其是对孩子们来说。它提供了一个消费健康食品的机会，如水果和谷物，并与更好的体重管理和认知功能有关。不幸的是，英国有相当多的孩子不吃早餐或吃巧克力和薯片等质量差的食物。这种不吃早餐的现象在肥胖儿童和家境较差的儿童中更为普遍。实施了学校早餐计划，以鼓励学生从小吃早餐和采用健康饮食。也有人认为，他可以导致提高在学校的表现。以前对这类计划的评价有一些方法上的缺点。这项研究利用了对威尔士议会小学免费早餐倡议进行的大规模全国评估中收集的数据，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111所随机选择的学校，这些学校要么立即启动该计划，要么在12个月内启动。问卷调查和访谈评估了不吃早餐和吃健康食品的数量、对早餐的态度、学校行为和记忆力、注意力和注意力。这些资料是在计划开始前和12个月后收集的。结果表明，该方案有效地提高了早餐健康食品的消费，提高了人们对早餐的积极态度。但是，如果不投资将这些结果与其他数据来源和随后的分析联系起来，就不会进行其他重要的分析。有了额外的资金，将有可能确定每个学生的免费校餐权利、教育表现数据和邮政编码。在研究期间，还可以检查从学生身上收集的额外详细的饮食营养信息。这将允许检查这些干预措施是否可以改善小学生的营养质量。以及它们是否能够解决健康不平等问题。还可以检查孩子之间的关系。随着时间的推移，饮食和未来的学习成绩这将为教育和卫生部门制定改善儿童状况的干预措施提供重要信息。解决日益严重的肥胖问题。它还将提供关于是否可以在今后的公共卫生倡议中利用常规教育和保健数据的重要信息。

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.