doi no.: 05-2016-44975451, DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/07.2020-93183534/

Aradhana Sharma¹, Paramvir Singh2

Affiliations:

¹Sports Nutritionist, Directorate of Sports and Youth Welfare, TT Nagar, Bhopal, MP  Email: sharma.aru@gmail.com

²Professor, Department of Sports Science, Faculty of Medicine, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, Email: tparamvir@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Nutrition education is a significant factor impacting nutritional knowledge, attitudes and practices of sports athlete. It Is extremely important from where the athletes receive this knowledge from. The present study was carried out on 322 Indian elite athletes from various sports disciplines like boxing, wrestling, diving, archers, weight-lifters, fencing and track and field athletes. They administered the knowledge, attitude and practice of sports nutrition questionnaire structured by the investigator which even had a question about the sources of nutrition knowledge. The data thus collected and compiled was analysed using the One-Way Anova to understand the impact of source of nutrition knowledge on sports nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices of Indian elite athletes. The results should that those who received sports nutrition knowledge from nutritionists and sports science staff had good knowledge, attitude and practice scores, those Indian elite athletes who received sports nutrition knowledge from social media had good attitude scores as well as the overall comparison was non-significant and lastly those who received nutritional knowledge from coaches had good practice scores.

Keywords: sports nutrition, nutritional knowledge, attitudes, dietary practices, Indian athletes.

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