The nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice of male students’ athletes in 2014, IR- university games

Abstract

The nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice of male students’ athletes in 2014, IR- university gamesIntroduction: The nutritional status of an athlete is a determinant factor for health, fitness and sportsperformance. The aim of this study was to investigate the nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice of malestudents' athletes in 2014, IR- university games. Methods: In this study, 330 student-athletes were selected bypurposeful selection and were evaluated by descriptive-survey method. Data were collected by using theknowledge, attitude and practice questionnaire that comprised 4 sections. In section one, the personalinformation of subjects and in the three next sections, nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice werecollected. The questionnaire consisted of 31 questions for nutritional knowledge, and 8 questions fornutritional attitude and to 21 questions for practice, which the maximum score for each question is one. Dataanalysis was carried out by using one sample t-test, one way ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.Results: The results showed that nutritional knowledge and attitude for male students' athletes are low, buttheir nutritional practice was moderate. Also nutritional knowledge attitude and practice of men studentathletes were lower than normal (p 0.05).Conclusion: This study showed that the nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice of male students' athletesparticipated in the university games is low and that they need more theoretical and applied nutritioneducations irrespective of their sport fields and academic levels.

Keywords

• nutritional knowledge
• attitude
• practice
• students' athletes