HUBUNGAN ANTARA BREAKFAST BEHAVIOUR TERHADAP NILAI ATENSI SISWA KELAS VIII SMPN 18 MALANG

Hariono, Brilianty R., 2019. Correlation between Breakfast Behaviour towards the value of students' attention grade VIII SMPN 18 Malang. Medical faculty, University of Muhammadiyah Malang. Advisor (1) dr. Febri Endra, M.Kes, Advisor (II) dr. Anung Putri Illahika, Msi. Background of knowledge: Attention is humans’ ability to focus their attention on the stimulus which caught by five senses. The attention process normally influenced by some factors which have an active role. Those factors divided into two types. Those are internal factor/ factors that existed since birth and external factor/factors that related to the environment. On the other hand, breakfast is one of the external factors. The function of breakfast is refilling nutritional intake for humans' energy and process metabolism in the brain to carry out attention processes. Moreover, the percentage of children who skip breakfast were quite high, It was around 16.9%. Objective: To find out whether there is a correlation between Breakfast Behavior towards students' attention in the 8th graders Of Junior High School 18 Malang. Method: Observational analytic research by using Cross-sectional study research design. The researcher distributed questionnaires about the factors that influence attentional value which suits with the habits of each respondent. Then, the researcher gave Six Letter Cancellation Test to the respondent to measure attention values. Furthermore, the researcher analyzed the data by using Lambda correlation method. Research findings and discussion: Based on the results of the Lambda correlation analysis, there was a significant correlation between breakfast behavior towards the students' attention value in the in the 8th graders Of Junior High School 18 Malang with p