When Professor Masaaki Yamada and Professor Michikazu Sekine of the University of Toyama Regional Cooperation Promotion Organization investigated elementary school students with low class comprehension, their family environment, and lifestyle, children with less room in their homes tended to have lower class comprehension. I found out that.Assistant Professor Yamada and his colleagues think that the degree of understanding of the lesson can be improved by reviewing the family environment and lifestyle.

 In 2016, Assistant Professor Yamada and his colleagues asked 1,663 children in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, whether they could understand the content of the lesson well, and defined the children who answered "I don't understand" or "I don't understand" as having a low level of understanding of the lesson. , The relationship with lifestyle and home environment was analyzed.18.0% of the children (17.4% for boys and 18.6% for girls) were considered to have low class comprehension.

 According to the analysis, in terms of children's lifestyle, compared to children who wake up by 6:7 am, children who wake up by 1.36:7 are 2.48 times less likely to understand lessons, and children who wake up after XNUMX:XNUMX are XNUMX times more likely to wake up. As the time became late, many children had a low level of understanding of the lessons.

 Many children who spend less than 2 hours watching the media on weekdays have 2 times less understanding than less than 1.35 hours, and many children who spend less than 1 hour studying at home have 1 times less understanding than 1.82 hour or more. rice field.

 From the viewpoint of the family environment, children with low class understanding are 1.47 times more than children who smoke with their fathers and do not smoke, and 1.87 times more than children who smoke with their mothers and do not smoke. The results show that the number of children in families with no room is 1.48 times higher than that in families with room.

Paper information:[Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine] Association between lifestyle, parental smoke, socioeconomic status, and academic performance in Japanese elementary school children: the Super Diet Education Project

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