Table 1.

Information on four cross-sectional studies with fourth-grade children from Augusta, Georgia.

Study	School year	Number of schools	School codes^a	Number of children invited to participate	Number (percent) of children invited to participate who provided parental consent and child assent	Number of randomly-selected childrenobserved eating school- provided meals and included in analyses for current article^b	Total number of school meals observed that were included in analyses for current article^c
A [22]	1999–2000	6	a,b,c,d,e,f	523	382 (73%)	98	502
B [24]	2000–2001	11	a,b,c,d,e,g,h,i,j,k,l	915	669 (73%)	120	456
C [23]	2001–2002	10	a,b,c,d,e,g,h,i,j,k	799	451 (56%)	61	122
D [21]	2002–2003	6	b,e,f,g,k,m	443	312 (70%)	49	98

There were 13 schools total in the four studies; the codes indicate which schools were in which study (or studies).

For each study, schools were selected to obtain a final sample of fourth-grade children with approximately equal numbers of children by sex and race (Black, White).

Analyses included only children observed eating breakfast that could be categorized as cold (i.e., ready-to-eat cereal, graham or animal crackers, milk, and juice or fruit) or hot (e.g., sausage biscuit, milk, and juice).