Food and Nutrition Education for Adolescent Soccer Players

Federal University of São Paulo50 enrolled

Overview

To identify changes in eating habits and symptoms of premenstrual tension in adolescent athletes before and after a nutritional education program.

A prospective cohort study aimed at evaluating nutritional knowledge, premenstrual tension symptoms, clinical and anthropometric characteristics in adolescent female soccer players.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Nutritional Assessments Adolescent Athletic Performance Premenstrual Syndrome

Interventions

nutritional educationBEHAVIORAL

Monthly nutritional education workshops, over five months, covering topics relevant to sports nutrition.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 15 YearsMax age: 17 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Adolescentes athletes between 15 and 17 years old * adolescents in their reproductive phase (menacme) * participants in a field soccer sports project Exclusion Criteria: * comorbidities

Locations (1)

Federal University of São Paulo - Gynecology Department

São Paulo, Brazil

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Nutritional Knowledge Questionnaire

The questionnaire called "Nutritional Knowledge Questionnaire," has a maximum score of 53 points, considering 1 point for each correctly answered question and zero points for unanswered or incorrectly answered questions. The questionnaire does not have a minimum score. The questionnaire consists of 2 parts. The first part consists of multiple-choice questions about nutritional knowledge, and the second part consists of questions about dietary beliefs in sports nutrition.

Time frame: immediately after the end of the intervention

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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