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Caffeine Consumption Among Students Attending Christian Schools In Research & Scholarship Caffeine consumption among TEACHR students attending Christian schools in Australia and its relationship to classroom behaviour and academic performance Peter Beamish Dean and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Business and Science, Avondale College of Higher Education, Cooranbong, NSW Peter Morey Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Business and Science, Avondale College of Higher Education, Cooranbong, NSW Cedric Greive Senior Lecturer (Retired), Discipline of Education, Avondale College of Higher Education, Cooranbong, NSW Ross Grant Clinical Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, CEO Australasian Research Institute, Wahroonga, NSW Jade Guest Research Officer, Australasian Research Institute, Wahroonga, NSW Key words: Adolescents, Caffeine, Classroom exhibited low or zero caffeine consumption Behaviour, Academic Performance through to a small group whose weekly consumption reached toward 2 g of caffeine (6 – The Abstract 8 cups per week). Significant relationships were consumption Caffeinated drinks have become increasingly found between weekly caffeine consumption “of these popular among secondary students in Australia. and self-reported measures of Classroom products is A total of 949 students in years eight to eleven Behaviour and Academic Performance. unregulated from 11 Christian schools completed a survey and they questioning their use of caffeinated drinks, Introduction are finding their classroom behaviour and academic Caffeine products are a growing segment of the wider use, performance. The most popular drinks were current marketplace (Gunja & Brown, 2012). The particularly found to be the carbonated cola/coca, cola/ consumption of these products is unregulated and caffeinated pepsi. Students consumed other caffeinated they are finding wider use, particularly caffeinated soft drinks, drinks such as Red Bull, Mother, V and similar soft drinks, among children and teenagers among products to a lesser extent. The drinks providing (Beckford, Grimes and Riddell, 2015). Indeed, children and maximal delivery of caffeine included iced Ludden & Wolfson (2010, p.330) suggest that teenagers coffee, cappuccino and plunger coffee. Caffeine “Caffeinated soft drinks are a part of youth culture.” use ranged from a majority of students who However very little is known about how its use is 42 | TEACH | v10 n2 v10 n2 | ”TEACH | 43 Research & Scholarship related to adolescent sleep, mood and academic leaves, the cocoa bean, the kola nut and the coffee performance (Ludden & Wolfson, 2010). Energy bean. The molecule of caffeine is soluble in boiling drinks, containing considerable concentrations of water and therefore hot drinks have been the usual caffeine, have been marketed to adolescents with means by which people have ingested the slightly claims of increasing energy and mental alertness bitter-tasting alkaloid. Caffeine is quickly absorbed (Simon & Mosher, 2007); however, recent studies into the body and, when in sufficient quantity, its have found high levels of energy drink consumption effects are perceptible within 15 to 20 minutes of amongst adolescents. For example, an Australian ingestion. The half-life period of caffeine in the based nutritional supplements focussed study human body is variable and appears to lie between (O’Dea, 2003) reported 42.3% of the sample of three and six hours. year 7-11 students from a government school had consumed energy drinks over the past two weeks. The effect of low-moderate, doses of caffeine Costa, Hayley and Miller (2016) report that from Caffeine acts as a stimulant, and even in low doses their sample of Australian 12-18-year-olds 36% (from 30 mg) it will decrease the perception of had exceeded the recommended two standard fatigue and raise the level of alertness (Lieberman, energy drinks /day, and 56% of consumers had Tharion, Shukitt-Hale, Speckman & Tulley, 2002; experienced negative physiological health effects Smith, 2002; Winston, Hardwick & Jaberi, 2005). following energy drink consumption. Even though caffeine has the potential to raise the moderate A review of the caffeine study literature level of arousal, it does not appear to effect sensory doses of suggests a need for further Australian based perception in any way (Smith, 2002). Caffeine acts “caffeine do not adolescent caffeine consumption studies as as a diuretic and raises blood pressure (Winston, appear to have there is limited research relating to Australian Hardwick & Jaberi, 2005). Since moderate doses any influence childhood and adolescent caffeine consumption in of caffeine raise the general level of arousal such on complex general (Costa, Hayley and Miller, 2016). Also, the doses have been found to improve performance on cognition relationship between caffeine consumption and tasks dependent upon alertness such as simulated nor do they student academic factors needs to be explored. driving (Smith, 2002) and sentry duty (Lieberman, appear to The current study is designed to gain data, within Tharion, Shukitt-Hale, Speckman & Tulley, 2002). have a positive an Australian context, relating to the following However moderate doses of caffeine (less than influence on questions: 100 mg) do not appear to have any influence on mood 1. What are the levels of adolescent caffeine complex cognition nor do they appear to have a consumption? positive influence on mood (Smith, 2002). 2. What are the sources of caffeine for adolescents’? Detrimental effects of caffeine ” 3. What are the associations between Studies in which large doses of caffeine were adolescents’ caffeine consumption and administered to experimental participants indicated student academic factors? a range of detrimental effects caused by caffeine. These dosages exceeded 2 mg/kg of body weight Firstly, this paper briefly describes the history and therefore involved doses of in excess of 150 of caffeine use and its effects when ingested mg and some reached levels of 6 mg/kg of body into the human body. It also provides information weight. In other words, they involved instant doses about the caffeine content of a selection of drinks of up to 600 mg of caffeine (Smith, 2002). Studies freely available in the Australian market and some of this nature found that large doses of caffeine confectionary products finding their way to Australia were related to a number of resultant conditions: from the United States of America. Secondly, this perceptions of ‘jitteriness’; degrees of arousal paper reports on information obtained from nearly that made sleep most unlikely if not impossible 1,000 Australian students enrolled in Christian (Clark and Landolt, 2016); the onset of feelings of schools from Brisbane to Perth, about their use nervousness and agitation; and increased feelings of caffeinated drinks and their self-reported of stress and anxiety (Nawrot, Jordan, Eastwood, academic school behaviour. Finally, this paper Rotstein, Hugenholtz & Feeley, 2003; Smith, 2002; explores possible associations between caffeine Winston, Hardwick & Jaberi, 2005). These studies consumption and school-level academic factors. indicated that caffeine was the causal agent, for the symptoms arose after the ingestion of caffeine and Caffeine: History and Chemistry they abated as the caffeine was metabolised. Caffeine is a psychoactive alkaloid that, when Further studies have indicated a correlational ingested by human beings, increases alertness. It link between caffeine and other situations. is naturally found in a range of plants including tea Prolonged heavy use of caffeine correlates with 44 | TEACH | v10 n2 v10 n2 | TEACH | 45 Research & Scholarship persistent sleeping disorders, eating disorders, perceptions of stress, anxiety disorder and Table 1: Caffeine content in commonly depression (Winston, Hardwick & Jaberi, 2005). available drinks One could mount an argument that prolonged use of caffeine is related to insomnia. However, such mg/100 ml Drink Type arguments become tenuous when attempting to link of fluid caffeine use with eating disorders and depression. It could be that individuals resort to caffeine use in Coffees – Standard Volumes vary from 250 – 400 ml order to ameliorate an otherwise stressful condition. When ingested in large quantities, caffeine Brewed coffee 45 is toxic. Gunja and Brown (2012) reviewed data Espresso coffee 173 gathered by the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre (NSWPIC) over a six-year Instant coffee 24 period ending in 2010. They located 297 hospital Slow extraction (Drip) 61 reports of caffeine toxicity related to ingestion of Plunger extraction caffeine through ‘energy drinks’. Over this period 200 the annual trend was sharply upward (12 reports McDonalds standard coffee 31 in 2004 to 65 in 2010). The reported symptoms of McDonalds iced coffee 42 caffeine toxicity included: palpitations, agitation, Starbucks Frappuccino tremors, gastrointestinal upset, hallucinations, 32 seizures and cardiac arrhythmia. These individuals Starbucks Grande Caffe Americano 48 reported sequentially drinking from three to eight Starbucks Grande Caffe Latte 32 energy drinks. This equates to a range of caffeine a single cup ingestion from 225 mg to in excess of 1000 mg (see Starbucks Grande Cappuccino 32 of coffee per Table 1). Of the 297 cases, 50 had co-ingested Starbucks Mocha 37 “day (around alcohol. Mixing alcohol and caffeine products is 100 mg/ Starbucks Grande coffee an increasing behaviour among American college 70 day) may be students (Malinauskas, Aeby, Oveerton, Carpenter- Starbucks Iced Espresso 32 a relatively Aeby
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