The Influence of Having Breakfast on Cognitive Performance and Mood

University of Ulm

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fasting

Treatments: Other: Breakfast/no breakfast

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00556868

241/2004

Details and patient eligibility

About

Breakfast is often labelled the most important meal of the day.

Parents and teachers quite often stress its importance for successful learning during the morning hours. With declining numbers of children and especially adolescents eating breakfast regularly, the study examines the influence of breakfast consumption on cognition and mood of high school students.

Enrollment: 104 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy high school students

Exclusion criteria

• Diabetes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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104 participants in 2 patient groups

A

Experimental group

Description:

Breakfast on the first day of intervention, fasting (no breakfast) on the second day of intervention

Treatment:

Other: Breakfast/no breakfast

B

Experimental group

Description:

Fasting (no breakfast) on the first day of intervention, breakfast on the second day of intervention

Treatment:

Other: Breakfast/no breakfast