Analysis of Dietary Intake in Professional Female Football Players
Analysis of Dietary Intake in Professional Female Football Players: Variations According to Playing Position, Age, and Country
University Ramon Llull
100 participants
Dec 2, 2024
OBSERVATIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This study evaluates the dietary intake of professional female footballers against nutritional guidelines, analysing differences by age, position, and location (UK vs Spain). Using a cross-sectional design, it will include 20-30 players per club from four clubs, aged 18+, collected via the Snap-N-Send method and analysed with Nutritics software. Variables include energy intake, macronutrients, and micronutrients, with data assessed using MANOVA, t-tests, and Shapiro-Wilk tests. The aim is to determine dietary adequacy and provide insights to improve nutrition education and wellbeing for female athletes.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria5
- Female or assigned female at birth
- Playing football professionally
- At a sub-elite to elite standard
- Above the age of 18
- Healthy and free of disease
Exclusion Criteria3
- Active supplementation with ergogenic aids
- Active pregnancy
- No signing of the consent form
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Interventions
Dietary intake data will be collected using the Snap-N-Send method, a tool with enhanced validity for assessing athlete total energy intake, where participants will take photographs of their meals and share them via WhatsApp directly with the researcher. Before the study commences, participants will receive standardised instructions on photographing food and adding details in the message such as title, portion sizes and ingredients alongside each photo to enhance data precision. The principal investigator will input these photographs with the added information into Nutritics dietary analysis software, where food weights, portion sizes, and nutritional content will be estimated and calculated. Nutritics will then calculate dependent variables and convert it into a food diary report, aggregating the three days of food diary into average intake.
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NCT06713954