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Nutritional Knowledge of UK Coaches
Athletes obtain nutritional information from their coaches, yet their competency in this area is lacking. Currently, no research exists in the UK which has a different coach education system to many other countries. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the sports nutrition knowledge of U...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011044/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24727434 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu6041442 |
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author | Cockburn, Emma Fortune, Alistair Briggs, Marc Rumbold, Penny |
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description | Athletes obtain nutritional information from their coaches, yet their competency in this area is lacking. Currently, no research exists in the UK which has a different coach education system to many other countries. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the sports nutrition knowledge of UK coaching certificate (UKCC) level 2 and 3, hockey and netball qualified coaches. All coaches (n = 163) completed a sports nutrition questionnaire to identify: (a) if they provided nutritional advice; (b) their level of sport nutrition knowledge; and (c) factors that may have contributed to their level of knowledge. Over half the coaches provided advice to their athletes (n = 93, 57.1%), even though they were not competent to do so. Coaches responded correctly to 60.3 ± 10.5% of all knowledge questions with no differences between those providing advice and those who did not (p > 0.05). Those coaches who had undertaken formal nutrition training achieved higher scores than those who had not (p < 0.05). In conclusion, UK sports coaches would benefit from continued professional development in sports nutrition to enhance their coaching practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-40110442014-05-06 Nutritional Knowledge of UK Coaches Cockburn, Emma Fortune, Alistair Briggs, Marc Rumbold, Penny Nutrients Article Athletes obtain nutritional information from their coaches, yet their competency in this area is lacking. Currently, no research exists in the UK which has a different coach education system to many other countries. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the sports nutrition knowledge of UK coaching certificate (UKCC) level 2 and 3, hockey and netball qualified coaches. All coaches (n = 163) completed a sports nutrition questionnaire to identify: (a) if they provided nutritional advice; (b) their level of sport nutrition knowledge; and (c) factors that may have contributed to their level of knowledge. Over half the coaches provided advice to their athletes (n = 93, 57.1%), even though they were not competent to do so. Coaches responded correctly to 60.3 ± 10.5% of all knowledge questions with no differences between those providing advice and those who did not (p > 0.05). Those coaches who had undertaken formal nutrition training achieved higher scores than those who had not (p < 0.05). In conclusion, UK sports coaches would benefit from continued professional development in sports nutrition to enhance their coaching practice. MDPI 2014-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4011044/ /pubmed/24727434 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu6041442 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Cockburn, Emma Fortune, Alistair Briggs, Marc Rumbold, Penny Nutritional Knowledge of UK Coaches |
title | Nutritional Knowledge of UK Coaches |
title_full | Nutritional Knowledge of UK Coaches |
title_fullStr | Nutritional Knowledge of UK Coaches |
title_full_unstemmed | Nutritional Knowledge of UK Coaches |
title_short | Nutritional Knowledge of UK Coaches |
title_sort | nutritional knowledge of uk coaches |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011044/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24727434 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu6041442 |
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