DETERMINATION OF NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE LEVELS OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM SPORT ATH

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the nutritional knowledge levels of individual and team sports athletes. The study was quantitative research and 96 athletes of Artvin Provincial Directorate of Youth Sport participated the study voluntarily. In the questionnaire form, there were 39 questions, including 8 demographic characteristics questions and 31 questions on the Nutrition Knowledge Scale (NKS). Since the data showed normal distribution considering the skewness and kurtosis values, independent groups t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation analyses were used in the statistical analysis. As a result of the analysis, no significant difference was found between the nutritional knowledge scores of the students and the variables of gender, age, amount of daily liquid consumption and sports experience; however, significant differences were found according to BMI, sports branch and daily food consumption (p