The Influence of Having Breakfast on Cognitive Performance and Mood

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Fasting
• Interventions: Other: Breakfast/no breakfast

• Registration Number: NCT00556868
• Lead Sponsor: University of Ulm

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-10
• Study Completion: 2005-12
• Status Verified: 2007-11
• Study First Submitted: 2007-11-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-11-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2007-11-09
• Study First Posted: 2007-11-12
• Last Update Posted: 2007-11-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 104

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy high school students

Exclusion Criteria

• Diabetes

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
A	Breakfast/no breakfast	Breakfast on the first day of intervention, fasting (no breakfast) on the second day of intervention
B	Breakfast/no breakfast	Fasting (no breakfast) on the first day of intervention, breakfast on the second day of intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sustained attention, immediate memory, mood	2 h

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre for Neuroscience and Learning; 🇩🇪 Ulm, Germany