31.08.2017 | Short Communication
Attention capacity in European adolescents: role of different health-related factors. The HELENA study
Erschienen in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Ausgabe 10/2017
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What is Known?
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• Attention is a crucial capacity during adolescence.
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• Several health-related factors (i.e., physical activity, fitness or fatness) may influence attention capacity in adolescents.
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What is New?
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• Adolescents from the south of Europe had higher levels of attention capacity than their counterparts from the center, after accounting for socioeconomic factors, fitness, fatness and quality of diet.
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• These differences should be taken into account by educational institutions when promoting new approaches for putting into the practice student’s capacities.
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