The Relationship between Nutritional Knowledge and Nutritional Status in Sports Special Class Students

Abstract

Lack of knowledge about nutrition in athletes can lead to a mismatch between nutrient intake and energy expended during the exercise process. Sport special class student are students in their early teens who undergo special programs, where students run training programs according to specialization sports and academic activities. This study aims to analyze the relationship of nutritional knowledge with the nutritional status sport special class students and analyze the most understood and not understood nutritional knowledge material with the NUKYA (Nutrition Knowledge for Young and Adult Athlete) questionnaire. The research design is cross sectional, conducted at SMPN 1 Surakarta in January 2023. The sampling technique was carried out with a simple random sampling technique so that 129 was obtained as the minimum number of research samples. The collection of personal data such as age, gender and address was filled in by the respondents themselves. Nutritional status data using anthropometry, and determined based on BMI / U. Nutritional knowledge data using the NUKYA (Nutrition Knowledge for Young and Adult Athlete) questionnaire. Nutritional status data is carried out weight and height weighing with strature meters and digital body scales that have been calibrated. Data analysis using the Chi Square test. The results showed that there was no relationship between nutritional knowledge and nutritional status (p>0.05). Meanwhile, the highest nutritional knowledge in KKO students based on sub-material analysis on the questionnaire is in the nutrition periodization category and the lowest score in the macronutrient category