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Should children drink more water?
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While dehydration has well-documented negative effects on adult cognition, there is little research on hydration and cognitive performance in children. We investigated whether having a drink of water improved children's performance on cognitive tasks. Fifty-eight children aged 7-9 years old were randomly allocated to a group that received additional water or a group that did not. Results showed that children who drank additional water rated themselves as significantly less thirsty than the comparison group (p=0.002), and they performed better on visual attention tasks (letter cancellation, p=0.02; spot the difference memory tasks, ps=0.019 and 0.014).
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Metadata
- Authors
- Edmonds, C. J., & Burford, D.
- Affiliations
- University of East London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Edmonds, Caroline J.
- Venue
- Appetite
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-06
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 776-779
- ISSN
- 0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W195970758
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 4.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- repository.uel.ac.uk
- Licence
- Locations
- Appetite (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UEL Research Repository (University of East London) (acceptedVersion)
- UEL Research Repository (University of East London) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nd)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Nephrology › Electrolyte and hormonal disorders
- Keywords
- hydration, water intake, children, cognitive performance, visual attention, thirst perception, memory
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Body Water, Child, Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Cognition, Dehydration, Drinking, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Psychometrics, Task Performance and Analysis, Thirst, Vision, Ocular, Water-Electrolyte Balance
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