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School Lunch Take up and Attainment in Primary and Secondary Schools in England

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Public Health, October 2015
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Title
School Lunch Take up and Attainment in Primary and Secondary Schools in England
Published in
Frontiers in Public Health, October 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00230
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Authors

Michael Nelson, Karen Gibson, Jo Nicholas

Abstract

Average levels of attainment in primary and secondary schools in England in 2010 and 2011 are positively associated with changes in average school lunch take up between 2008-2009 and 2010-2011. Average school lunch take up and attainment data were available for 2009-2011 for primary and secondary sectors in a minimum of 106 local authorities (LAs) in England and 853 individual primary schools in six LAs. Associations between attainment at 11-12 years (primary) and 15-16 years (secondary) and changes in school lunch take up were tested using multilevel analysis, multiple regression, and cross-tabulation (chi-squared analysis). At school level, attainment at 11-12 years in 2010 and 2011 showed 9 positive and 12 negative associations with changes in school lunch take up between 2009 and 2011. At LA level, average attainment at 15-16 years in 2011 was associated with changes in total school lunch take up in 2010-2011 (p = 0.034). Cross-tabulation of changes in attainment 2010-2011 (above or below median) were positively associated with changes in total school lunch take up between 2009 and 2011, by quartiles (Chi-squared = 11.041, df = 3, p = 0.012). Attainment at secondary level in England is statistically significantly associated with increases in healthier school lunch take up. Results in the primary sector are not consistent.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 24%
Student > Bachelor 3 18%
Researcher 2 12%
Lecturer 1 6%
Other 2 12%
Unknown 1 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 5 29%
Psychology 4 24%
Social Sciences 3 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 2 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 April 2020.
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#17,086,006
of 25,885,956 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Public Health
#5,646
of 14,459 outputs
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#166,660
of 292,768 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Public Health
#37
of 62 outputs
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