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Elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors
BACKGROUND: There is a reported mismatch between macronutrient consumption and contemporary macronutrient guidelines in elite standard squash players. Suboptimal dietary practices could be due to a lack of nutrition knowledge among players. Subsequently, the purpose of this study was to assess the s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8194110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34112186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12970-021-00443-3 |
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author | Turner, Ollie Mitchell, Nigel Ruddock, Alan Purvis, Alison Ranchordas, Mayur |
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description | BACKGROUND: There is a reported mismatch between macronutrient consumption and contemporary macronutrient guidelines in elite standard squash players. Suboptimal dietary practices could be due to a lack of nutrition knowledge among players. Subsequently, the purpose of this study was to assess the sports nutrition knowledge of elite squash players through the Nutrition for Sport Knowledge Questionnaire (NSKQ) and provide an indication of whether players require nutrition support to increase their nutrition knowledge. METHODS: This cross-sectional study assessed the nutrition knowledge of 77 elite squash players via the NSKQ over the period of June 2020 to August 2020. RESULTS: Players conveyed average nutrition knowledge with a mean NSKQ score of 48.78 ± 10.06 (56.07% ± 11.56%). There were no significant differences in NSKQ score between male and female players (p = .532). There was found to be a weak positive association between world ranking and NSKQ score (r = .208) and age and NSKQ score (r = .281). Players who had a relevant undergraduate degree (e.g. BSc Sport & Exercise Science) had significantly greater NSKQ score than players with no relevant qualifications (p = .022). Players who consulted a sports nutritionist to obtain their main source of nutrition information were shown to have significantly greater knowledge than those who acquired knowledge from a sports scientist (p = .01) or the internet / social media (p = .007). CONCLUSIONS: Players should consult with a sports nutritionist to increase their sport nutrition knowledge. Future research should quantify the effectiveness of a nutritional education intervention at increasing nutrition knowledge in players. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12970-021-00443-3. |
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spelling | pubmed-81941102021-06-15 Elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors Turner, Ollie Mitchell, Nigel Ruddock, Alan Purvis, Alison Ranchordas, Mayur J Int Soc Sports Nutr Research Article BACKGROUND: There is a reported mismatch between macronutrient consumption and contemporary macronutrient guidelines in elite standard squash players. Suboptimal dietary practices could be due to a lack of nutrition knowledge among players. Subsequently, the purpose of this study was to assess the sports nutrition knowledge of elite squash players through the Nutrition for Sport Knowledge Questionnaire (NSKQ) and provide an indication of whether players require nutrition support to increase their nutrition knowledge. METHODS: This cross-sectional study assessed the nutrition knowledge of 77 elite squash players via the NSKQ over the period of June 2020 to August 2020. RESULTS: Players conveyed average nutrition knowledge with a mean NSKQ score of 48.78 ± 10.06 (56.07% ± 11.56%). There were no significant differences in NSKQ score between male and female players (p = .532). There was found to be a weak positive association between world ranking and NSKQ score (r = .208) and age and NSKQ score (r = .281). Players who had a relevant undergraduate degree (e.g. BSc Sport & Exercise Science) had significantly greater NSKQ score than players with no relevant qualifications (p = .022). Players who consulted a sports nutritionist to obtain their main source of nutrition information were shown to have significantly greater knowledge than those who acquired knowledge from a sports scientist (p = .01) or the internet / social media (p = .007). CONCLUSIONS: Players should consult with a sports nutritionist to increase their sport nutrition knowledge. Future research should quantify the effectiveness of a nutritional education intervention at increasing nutrition knowledge in players. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12970-021-00443-3. BioMed Central 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8194110/ /pubmed/34112186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12970-021-00443-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Turner, Ollie Mitchell, Nigel Ruddock, Alan Purvis, Alison Ranchordas, Mayur Elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors |
title | Elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors |
title_full | Elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors |
title_fullStr | Elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors |
title_full_unstemmed | Elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors |
title_short | Elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors |
title_sort | elite squash players nutrition knowledge and influencing factors |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8194110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34112186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12970-021-00443-3 |
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