INVESTIGATION OF NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE LEVELS OF FACULTY OF SPORTS SCIENCE STUDENTS

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the nutritional knowledge levels of students studying in the sports science faculty of the university. To ensure healthy growth and development of people, balanced nutrition is very important as well as adequate nutrition. The nutrients and energy needed by the body are affected by various variables such as age and gender. Also, having enough and quality of nutrients in the body has an important effect in terms of health. Athletes, on the other hand, need to pay more attention to nutrition beside health. It is possible that the physical performance is at a sufficient level and that this performance can continue, by paying attention to the nutrition of the athlete. Adequate nutritional knowledge of instructors and trainers who train athletes and athletes provides a positive effect on the performance of the athlete he educates. In the study, a questionnaire consisting of two parts was applied to collect data to apply to sports science students. Determining “the Demographic Features of the Participants” in the first part of the questionnaire (17 questions); and in the second part, the questions to determine “Sports Nutrition and Nutritional Knowledge Levels” (18 questions) are included. Validity and reliability studies of the applied questionnaire were carried out. A questionnaire measuring nutritional knowledge levels was applied to the sample individuals who participated in the study before and after nutrition education by the expert in the field of nutrition.