{"title":"Fast Food Consumption and Its Relation with Attention Span and Memory Retention in School Children","authors":"Mankiran Kaur","doi":"10.31901/24566772.2019/13.1.566","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"To study the relationship of fast food consumption with attention span and memory retention, a total of 240 school children aged 13-15 years with frequent consumption of fast food were selected from three private and three government schools of Ludhiana city. The data on general information and demographic profile of the respondents and frequency of fast food consumption was collected. The subjects were asked to fill the questionnaire containing these details. D2 attention span test and memory retention test were conducted among the selected subjects in order to assess their cognitive development. The results revealed that there was frequent consumption of fast food among the school children, wherein comparison to the private school children, consumption of fast foods by government school children was slightly higher. Frequently consumed fast foods among both private and government school children were chips, biscuits, bread, cookies, golgappe (potato filled fried salty snack) and samosa (potato stuffed fried salty snack). A significant negative correlation was observed between the consumption of fast food and attention span and memory retention; while a significant positive correlation was observed between attention span and memory retention. Hence, it was concluded that private school children were having better attention span (p<0.05) and memory retention scores than government school children.","PeriodicalId":39279,"journal":{"name":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies on Ethno-Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.31901/24566772.2019/13.1.566","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
To study the relationship of fast food consumption with attention span and memory retention, a total of 240 school children aged 13-15 years with frequent consumption of fast food were selected from three private and three government schools of Ludhiana city. The data on general information and demographic profile of the respondents and frequency of fast food consumption was collected. The subjects were asked to fill the questionnaire containing these details. D2 attention span test and memory retention test were conducted among the selected subjects in order to assess their cognitive development. The results revealed that there was frequent consumption of fast food among the school children, wherein comparison to the private school children, consumption of fast foods by government school children was slightly higher. Frequently consumed fast foods among both private and government school children were chips, biscuits, bread, cookies, golgappe (potato filled fried salty snack) and samosa (potato stuffed fried salty snack). A significant negative correlation was observed between the consumption of fast food and attention span and memory retention; while a significant positive correlation was observed between attention span and memory retention. Hence, it was concluded that private school children were having better attention span (p<0.05) and memory retention scores than government school children.
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Studies on Ethno-Medicine is a peer reviewed, internationally circulated journal. It publishes reports of original research, theoretical articles, timely reviews, brief communications, book reviews and other publications in the interdisciplinary field of ethno-medicine. The journal serves as a forum for physical, social and life scientists as well as for health professionals. The transdisciplinary areas covered by this journal include, but are not limited to, Physical Sciences, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Botany, Agriculture, Home Science, Zoology, Genetics, Biology, Medical Sciences, Public Health, Demography and Epidemiology. The journal publishes basic, applied and methodologically oriented research from all such areas. The journal is committed to prompt review, and priority publication is given to manuscripts with novel or timely findings, and to manuscript of unusual interest. Further, the manuscripts are categorised under three types, namely - Regular articles, Short Communications and Reviews. The researchers are invited to submit original papers in English (papers published elsewhere or under consideration elsewhere shall not be considered).