SynthesisCurrent obesity reports2017
Longitudinal Associations Between Childhood Obesity and Academic Achievement: Systematic Review with Focus Group Data.
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- Umbrella systematic review finds limited evidence that school absence explains the association between chronic health conditions and lower academic attainment.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Guidelines for treating child and adolescent obesity: A systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- The relationship between obesity and tertiary education outcomes: a systematic review.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Pooled it
- Weight Bias in Educational Settings: a Systematic Review.Current obesity reports · 2019Pooled it
- Physical activity, diet and other behavioural interventions for improving cognition and school achievement in children and adolescents with obesity or overweight.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Physical activity, diet and other behavioural interventions for improving cognition and school achievement in children and adolescents with obesity or overweight.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
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- Understanding How Childhood Obesity Influences Educational Outcomes: A Literature Review.Cureus · 2026Review
- Obesity among college students in Oman: implications for health and academic performance.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The next 1000 days: building on early investments for the health and development of young children.Lancet (London, England) · 2024Review
- Discriminating factors of body composition characteristics for academic performance in nursing college students: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Associations of Body Mass Index with Self-Rated Health and Weight Perceptions Among Rural Appalachian Adolescent Students.The Journal of school health · 2024Article
- Effect of Preadolescents' Obesity on Inhibitory Control During Stop-Signal Task: A Functional EEG Network Study.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Academic achievement and healthy lifestyle habits in primary school children: an interventional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Longitudinal weight status and academic achievement in elementary schoolchildren in the United States.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Article
- Associations between sugar-sweetened beverages before and during pregnancy and offspring overweight/obesity in Japanese women: the TMM BirThree Cohort Study.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Mediators of the association between childhood body mass index and educational attainment: Analysis of a UK prospective cohort study.Pediatric obesity · 2023Article
- Overweight/Obesity-related microstructural alterations of the fimbria-fornix in the ABCD study: The role of aerobic physical activity.PloS one · 2023Article
- Longitudinal associations between weight status and academic achievement in primary school children.Pediatric obesity · 2023Article
- Links between obesity, weight stigma and learning in adolescence: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purposes of this study were to review the evidence on longitudinal associations between child and adolescent obesity and academic achievement and to provide perceptions of adolescents with obesity and their parents on this topic. RECENT
findingsSynthesis of 31 studies (from 17 cohorts) suggested that relationships between obesity and academic achievement are not well established, except for adolescent girls' maths attainment, potentially mediated by both weight-related bullying and executive cognitive functions. Focus groups with adolescent girls with obesity confirmed experiences of psychosocial distress at school particularly during Physical Education. Adolescents perceived that obesity was not related to academic achievement directly, but by their attitude to school. Interventions are warranted to promote psychosocial wellbeing and cognitive abilities linked to academic achievement in adolescent girls with obesity. Physical Education should be a positive experience for children and adolescents with obesity.
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