دانش تغذيه اي و عادات غذايي دانشجويان ورزشكار رشته دو و ميداني كشور

Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Habits of Track and Field Athleteʹs Student in Iran.

The aim of this study was to investigate the nutrition knowledge and dietary habits of track and field athletes who participated in student competitions. Statistical population included of all track and field athleteʹs students of the country who had taken part in student matches in 1384. The instruments of this research included nutrition knowledge questionnaire (involved 66 questions, from Zawilla, 2003) and dietary practices questionnaire (research maker). 190 questionnaire which completed (boys: 110 & girls: 80) were selected as the purposeful sample. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by university professors and general and sport nutrition specialists and questions internal reliability was obtained by Krunbach Alpha coefficient of 0.86. Independent T-test and Pierson correlation were used for analysis of data. The result show that the mean of correct answer was 33.6. Although the boys had higher score in sport, general and nutrition knowledge questions, but there were not any significant differences in questions (P> 0/05). Also there was only significant differences between two groups only in subgroups of carbohydrate, protein, iron and calcium. There was an increases of nutrition knowledge accompanying, decreases in use of the nutrition supplement ( = -0/15), P<0/05) rand ergogenic substances (r=-0/15, P<0/05), and so persons who had nutrition program(r=0/36, P<0/05) and passed the nutritional education career(r=0/22, P<0/05) have a higher nutrition knowledge. Sports book were the first references of nutrition information in athletes. It can be concluded that nutrition educational career for athletes and coaches is one of the ways to developing the nutrition knowledge.