The use of a short and user-friendly questionnaire as a screening tool to identify potential gaps in nutrition knowledge of adolescent athletes

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Authors

Roben Ohev Shalom, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Medical Student
David Lick, Corewell Health East
Virginia E. Uhley, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Description

Nutrition knowledge in adolescent athletes is rarely formally assessed by physicians. Current popular nutrition questionnaires include the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBSS) and the Nutrition for Sport Knowledge Questionnaire (NSKQ). These questionnaires are long and are not optimal to assess nutrition knowledge in adolescent athletes at their preparticipation examinations. A systematic review conducted by Tam et al, showed that questionnaires would benefit from interactive and attractive features including images. A novel nutrition questionnaire was adapted from the NSKQ that was user friendly, short in length, electronic and included images. We hypothesized that through collecting physicians feedback on the questionnaire will allow us to create an improved screening tool that can be incorporated into sport physical exams to help identify specific nutrition knowledge gaps and related misconceptions of healthy eating patterns in adolescent youth.

Publication Date

5-2024

Keywords

Nutrition

Disciplines

Family Medicine

Recommended Citation

Shalom RO, Lick D, Uhley VE. The use of a short and user-friendly questionnaire as a screening tool to identify potential gaps in nutrition knowledge of adolescent athletes. Poster presented at: Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Embark Capstone Colloquium; 2024 May; Rochester Hills, MI.

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The Embark Capstone Colloquium at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester Hills, MI, May, 2024.