Relationship between breakfast eating frequency and health-risk behavior of high school students in Chongqing / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To investigate the relationship between breakfast eating frequency and health-risk behavior of high school students in Chongqing, and provide a reference for conducting students to get a good habit of eating breakfast everyday.@*Methods@#A total of 3 283 high school students in Chongqing were selected to participate in a questionnarie by using convenience sampling method. Logistic regression analysis were condueted to analyze the influences made by the unhealty eating behaviors on eating frequency of breakfast.@*Results@#There were 2 064(69.2%) students eating breakfast everyday, 1 219(37.1%) students having no breakfast or eating breakfast sometimes. There were significant differences between different gender, grade, native place, drinking energy drink, smoking, drinking alcohol, gambling, internet addiction students rate of unhealthy breakfast eating frequency(χ2=6.80, 53.97, 8.10, 23.79, 7.89, 16.31, 3.93, 17.96, P<0.05), the males (36.1%) was beyond the females(33.3%), the energy drink drinkers(41.2%) was beyond the non-drinkers(31.7%), the smokers (40.9%) was beyond the non-smokers(34.4%), the alcohol drinkers(40.3%) was beyond the non-drinkers(33.3%), the gamblers(39.7%) was beyond the non-gamblers(34.3%), those having internet addictions (40.0%) was beyond those having no addictions(33.0%). Drinking energy drink(OR=1.32, 95%CI=1.12-1.55), drinking alcohol(OR=1.24, 95%CI=1.02-1.51), internet addiction(OR=1.42, 95%CI=1.19-1.68) were positively correlated with unhealthy breakfast eating frequency of high school students(P<0.05).@*Conclusion@#Social, families and schools should strengthen the guidance of high school students to develop the habit of eating breakfast every day, and advoid the clustering of skipping breakfast and health-risk behaviors.