| AF-5 | Form-5 Self-Concept Questionnaire |
| AP | Academic performance |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| GPA | Grade point average |
| GRADE | Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation |
| KIDMED | Mediterranean Diet Quality Index in Children and Adolescents |
| MedDiet | Mediterranean diet |
| MEDAS-14 | 14-item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener |
| MOOSE | Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| OR | Odds ratio |
| PECOS | Population, Exposure, Comparison, Outcome, and Study design |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses |
| PROSPERO | International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews |
| RoB 2 | Risk-of-Bias tool for randomized trials |
| ROBINS-I | Risk of Bias in Non-randomized Studies–of Interventions |
| SMD | Standardized mean difference |
| UEE | University entrance examination |