Sports nutrition knowledge and perceptions among professional basketball athletes and coaches in Lebanon-a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Basketball is the most popular sport in Lebanon. Adequate nutrition has been established to be a key component of optimal athletic performance, recovery from exercise and exercise-induced injury and documented to be associated with adequate nutrition knowledge (NK). In Lebanon, nutrition education is not incorporated into the basketball player training program and there is no established position for sports nutritionists in basketball clubs. To our knowledge, the present study is the first to evaluate the NK status of Division I Basketball (D1B) players /coaches in Lebanon. The objectives of this study are to assess the prevalence of inadequate NK; identify the gaps in NK, main sources of nutrition information, perceptions on sports nutrition and independent predictors o

SUBMITTER: Boumosleh JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8130284 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature