Season of birth and sugary beverages are predictors of Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Scores in adolescents.

ABSTRACT: To investigate factors associated with cognitive functioning in healthy adolescents, a school-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 1370 adolescents aged 11-16 years that were randomly selected from all governorates of Kuwait. Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), a non-verbal test of intelligence, was used to measure cognitive functioning of the study participants. Data on predictors of cognitive functioning were collected from parents and adolescents. Weight and height of the participants were measured in a standardized manner and blood samples were tested in an accredited laboratory under strict measures of quality control. In multivariable linear regression analysis, factors that showed significant association with the SPM score were gender (p?=?0.002), season of birth (p?=?0.009), place of residence (p?

SUBMITTER: Al-Sabah R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7145867 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature