The association of self-reported sleep, weight status, and academic performance in fifth-grade students
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BACKGROUND: To improve support and justification for health promotion efforts in schools, it is helpful to understand how students' health behaviors affect academic performance. METHODS: Fifth-grade students completed an online school-administered health survey with questions regarding their eating behavior, physical activity, academic performance, and sleep patterns. Differences in health behaviors were examined by sex, self-reported weight status, and sufficient (≥9 hours) versus insufficient sleep. Logistic regression was used to determine the relationship between academic performance and the health behaviors. RESULTS: One third of the sample did not get the recommended amount of physical activity and more than half of the students watched television ≥ 2 hours/day. Self-reported overweight status was related to lower self-reported academic performance, fewer lunch and breakfast occasions, less physical activity, not meeting the recommendations for vegetable and soda consumption as well as hours of television watching. Sufficient sleep (≥9 hours/night) was associated with better grades, meeting the recommended hours of daily television watching and video game playing, being more physically active and increased breakfast and lunch frequency. Percentage of serving free/reduced lunch, soda consumption, breakfast frequency, amount of physical activity, and television watching were associated with academic performance. CONCLUSION: More positive health behaviors generally were associated with better academic performance. Promoting healthy behaviors in schools might improve not only students' health academic performance as well.
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Lack of sleep is significantly associated with a decline in academic performance.
“The lack of sleep that is frequently observed in adolescence seems to be significantly associated with a decline in academic performance [11,12,13].”
From Lifestyle Habits Predict Academic Performance in High School Students: The Adolescent Student Academic Performance Longitudinal Study (ASAP) (2019) · cites this paper as [13]
The Results section (Relationship of Sleep with Other Health Behaviors; page unavailable) reports that fifth graders sleeping less than nine hours were less likely to have better grades, with a significant difference by sleep category (p < .001). The study concerns fifth graders and compares grades at one point in time; it does not establish a decline over time or directly study adolescents as a broader group. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Stroebele, N., McNally, J., Plog, A., Siegfried, S., & Hill, J. O.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Anschutz (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stroebele, Nanette
- ORCID
- Hill, James O.
- Venue
- Journal of School Health
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-01-18
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 77-84
- ISSN
- 0022-4391 (ISSN-L)
- 1746-1561
- PMC
- PMC3552381
- OpenAlex
- W2151810454
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 42
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- 2026: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 6.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of School Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (DK048520)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK042549, DK-42549, DK-048520, R37DK042549, P30DK048520)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R00HD055036, HD055036, K99HD055036)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Keywords
- sleep duration, academic performance, overweight, fifth grade students, physical activity, television viewing, dietary habits, soft drink consumption, vegetable consumption, free/reduced lunch, school health promotion, sex differences
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Body Weight, Colorado, Educational Measurement, Feeding Behavior, Female, Health Status Indicators, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Motor Activity, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sex Factors, Sleep, Students, Health Behavior, Incidence, Chi-Square Distribution, Logistic Models, Risk Assessment, Needs Assessment, Internet, Overweight, Self Report
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