Table III.

Comparison between schoolchildren age 11–17 who “never” and “sometimes, often and always” experience to go to bed or to school hungry at central HBSC items on the 8 domains

Area	Item	Never	Sometimes, often or always	Chi2
Dietary consumption and nutritional outcomes	Eating breakfast on all schooldays	64.7	52.9	p<0.001
	Eating fruit 5–6 times a week or more	29.4	23.9	p=0.02
	Drinking soft drinks 5–6 times a week or more	46.9	46.3	p=0.82
Physical health and development	Physical symptoms (headache, stomach ache or back ache) nearly every week	66.5	61.3	p=0.04
	Self-rated health “good” or “excellent”	83.7	77.0	p<0.001
Life satisfaction and mental health	Psychical symptoms (depressed, irritable or nervous) nearly every week	59.5	56.2	p=0.21
	Very best quality of life	33.6	28.0	p=0.02
Behavioural and psycho-social functioning	Never bullied	64.2	56.7	p=0.002
	Never bullied others	59.5	50.7	p<0.001
	Feel accepted by classmates	71.1	74.2	p=0.19
Academic performance	Good or very good academic achievement	71.5	62.9	p<0.001
	Not pressured by schoolwork	40.7	31.9	p<0.001
Risk factors in the home environment	Difficult to talk to mother about something that really bother	60.2	52.6	p=0.003
	Difficult to talk to father about something that really bother	43.0	42.5	p=0.83
	Eating dinner with parents every day	75.5	67.9	p=0.001
Health behaviours	Tooth brushing twice a day	65.7	50.6	p<0.001
	Daily smoking	24.8	28.1	p=0.13
	Been drunk more than once	22.2	20.9	p=0.52
Socio-demographic risk factors	Age (see Table I)
	Gender, boys/girls experienced hunger	62.3/73.5	37.7/26.5	p<0.001
	Low family affluence	34.0	47.3	p<0.001
	Living in a settlement	18.4	28.4	p<0.001