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Nutrition Knowledge of NCAA Division I Student Athletes
Başlık:
Nutrition Knowledge of NCAA Division I Student Athletes
Yazar:
Alghuraybi, Salma Fahad, author.
ISBN:
9780355983890
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 electronic resource (70 pages)
Genel Not:
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Heather L. Colleran Committee members: Roberta Claro da Silva; Eric E. Hall; Salam A. Ibrahim.
Özet:
Obesity is a major public health problem. Efforts to help students manage their calorie intake include a wide variety of strategies, including nutrition education, food intake monitoring, labeling nutritional content of foods, promotion of healthy food choices, and social media appeals to eat foods from "recommended" food groups. While these strategies have had some success, previous studies have shown a lack of nutrition knowledge among students, particularly student-athletes (SA), which limit their ability to identify healthy options on campus. Additionally, SA have a higher demand on their time with a typical in season week including at least 20 hours of game preparation on top of their academic course load. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess nutrition knowledge of Division I SA using the Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire (NKQ) prior to working with a sports dietitian (RD) (pre) and conduct a follow-up four years later (post). Survey Monkey was used to administer the 56 questions NKQ survey via email to all enrolled SA (pre = 358; post = 399) participating on 17 NCAA Division I teams. The NKQ survey contains four sections: I-Dietary Recommendations (maximum score=11), II-Sources of Foods/Nutrients (maximum score = 69), III-Choosing Everyday Foods (maximum score = 10), and IV-Diet/Disease Relationship (maximum score = 20) which sum a total score out of 110. The nutrition education intervention consisted of team talks, individual or small group counseling by a RD and promoting healthy eating for performance through handouts and social media. ANOVA (pre and post) and MANOVA (gender/ sport by pre/post) were used to test for significance over time and between groups, p < 0.05. Response rates were 26.3% (pre, n = 94) and 20.8% (post, n = 82), respectively. Demographics (pre) 29.6% male/ 70.4% female and (post) 32.3% male/ 67.7% female; ages 18-24 98.6% and 92.3%; white ethnic origin 88.6% and 90.0%, p > 0.05. Section I, III and IV were non-significant between pre and post. However, Section II was significantly different between pre and post, 38.3 + 14.9 vs. 32.9 + 14.1, p = 0.02 and the total NKQ score trended towards significance 53.9 + 18.9 vs. 48.6 + 18.2, p = 0.06, respectively. There was no significant difference over time by sport or gender in section or total nutrition knowledge scores. On average, 10.5 teams out of the 17 teams participated in team nutrition talks over the four years. Counseling was provided to 173 athletes (on average 380 SA per year were enrolled), 95 male SA and 78 female SA. The findings in this study show the importance of hiring a full time sports dietitian. Collegiate athletes were found to have a lack of general nutrition knowledge. Despite having access to sports dietitian less than four hours per week over a four-year time frame, nutrition knowledge in SA did not improve. There are several potential reasons: first the post sample population at the may not have adequately represented the SA who received nutrition education from the sports RD. Second, lack of control for pre and post sample population, meaning the SA who participated in the post survey may not have been the same SA who initially participated (pre). Finally, the survey measured general nutrition knowledge. The nutrition education was focused on improving performance. The outcome of the nutrition education intervention might have shown improvement if a survey was used to capture sports nutrition knowledge. However, future research will focus on the development of nutritional programs aimed at improving nutrition knowledge to educated SA about the importance of nutrition and performance.
Notlar:
School code: 1544
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