The Influence of Having Breakfast on Cognitive Performance and Mood

The Influence of Having Breakfast on Cognitive Performance and Mood in High School Students

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00556868

Enrollment

104

Registered

2007-11-12

Start date

2005-10-31

Completion date

2005-12-31

Last updated

2007-11-12

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Conditions

Fasting

Keywords

High school students, Boarding school, Breakfast, Fasting, Memory, Attention, Mood

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.

Interventions

OTHERBreakfast/no breakfast

A: Breakfast on the first day of intervention. Fasting (no breakfast) on the second day of intervention. B: Breakfast on the second day of intervention. Fasting (no breakfast) on the first day of intervention

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

CROSSOVER

Primary purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

SINGLE (Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

13 Years to 20 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Healthy high school students

Exclusion criteria

* Diabetes

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Sustained attention, immediate memory, mood	2 h

Countries

Germany

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026