relationship between school performance and breakfast quality in refugee children: case study of mardin region

Background: manystudieshavefoundthat the academicsuccess of school-age children is proved tobein close relation with regularand healthy nutrition.objectives: this study aims to investigate the relationship between breakfast quality and academic success of refugee primaryschoolchildren.methods: after scanning 24 schools in the city center, 384 students who were refugee syrians from primary schools in mardin citycenter were included. in addition to the demographic characteristics of the individuals, breakfast habits of these students wereinvestigated.results: in this study, 91.6% of the children stated that theyhave breakfast habits. thereasons for skipping breakfastamongstudentsof all levels can be listed as being late for school (67.8%) and not liking to have breakfast (18.8%). the breakfast quality index (bqi)score was low in both boys and girls and all age groups. according to this marked value, all age groups had poor nutrition in termsof breakfast. although girls showed a significant difference in all age groups (p = 0.046), this difference was not significant amongboys (p = 0.671). the number of students with a breakfast quality score higher than 8 was very low. it was observed that boys had thehighest academic success with the lowest breakfast quality score. the breakfast quality score of girls with the best academic successranged between 4 - 7 points.conclusions: it was observed that academic success was linked to having breakfast habit, and students had breakfast habit performedrelatively better in school compared to those who did not.